Angolszász idézetek fordítással, Off Course nyelvtan videókkal és mondatgyűjteménnyel ______________________www.facebook.com/offcourseangol_____________________
Wikipedia:
Garth Anthony Crooks, OBE (born 10 March 1958) is an English former
professional footballer. He played for Stoke City, Tottenham Hotspur,
Manchester United, West Bromwich Albion and Charlton Athletic.
Throughout his career he was an active member of the Professional
Footballers' Association and was elected the first black chairman of
the union. He currently works for the BBC as a television pundit...
...In
1988, Crooks became the first black chairman of the Professional
Footballers' Association but gave up the role after retiring in 1990.
He first worked in the media as a match analyst at the 1982 and 1990
World Cups and later worked as Match of the Day's reporter at the
England camp at Euro 2000 and the 2002 World Cup. In the late 1990s,
Crooks became presenter of the political television show Despatch
Box. In 1999 he was awarded an OBE in the Queen's Birthday Honoursfor
his services to football punditry, specifically citing his ability to
bring passion to football. He currently appears regularly on Final
Score as a pundit and on rare occasions still appears on Match of the
Day as a replacement for regular pundits Alan Shearer and Mark
Lawrenson. He is occasionally seen interviewing players for BBC
television after league football matches. He also names his team of
the week (Premier League) each week on the BBC website.
nyilván te is a szendvicset
választanád a ??? helyett?... a fordítás könnyűnek tűnik –
ha megnézed, mihez jár nyelvtani segítség, tán nem is hibázol...
Wikipedia:
John Boyd Orr, 1st Baron Boyd-Orr CH, DSO, MC, FRS (23 September 1880
– 25 June 1971), known as Sir John Boyd Orr from 1935 to 1949, was
a Scottish teacher, doctor, biologist and politician who received the
Nobel Peace Prize for his scientific research into nutrition and his
work as the first Director-General of the United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organization (FAO). He was the co-founder and the first
President (1960–1971) of the World Academy of Art and Science
(WAAS)...
...As
an undergraduate in Glasgow, he explored the interior of the city,
usually at weekends. He was shocked by what he found in the
poverty-stricken slums and tenements, which then made up a large part
of the city. Rickets was obvious among the children, malnutrition (in
some cases, associated with drunkenness) was shown by many of the
adults, and many of the aged were destitute. In his first teaching
job after graduating M.A. in 1902, he was posted to a school in the
slums. His first class was overcrowded, and the children ill-fed or
actually hungry, inadequately clothed, visibly lousy and physically
wretched. He resigned after a few days, realising that he could not
teach children in such a condition, and that there was nothing he
could do to relieve their misery...
...On leaving the university, he
took a position as a ship's surgeon on a ship trading between
Scotland and West Africa, choosing this job because it offered the
possibility of paying off his bank overdraft faster than any other.
He resigned after four months, when he had repaid the debt. He then
tried general practice, working as a locum in the practice of his
family doctor in Saltcoats, and was offered a partnership there.
Realising that a career in medicine was not for him, he instead
accepted the offer of a two-year Carnegie research scholarship, to
work in E.P. Cathcart's laboratory. The work he began there covered
malnutrition, protein andcreatine metabolism, the effect of water
intake on nitrogenous metabolism in humans, and the energy
expenditure of military recruits in training...
...Orr,
by now Rector of the University of Glasgow, was elected as an
independent Member of Parliament (MP) for the Combined Scottish
Universities in a by-election in April 1945, and kept his seat at the
general election shortly after. He resigned in 1946...
...After
the Second World War, Boyd Orr resigned from the Rowett Institute,
and took several posts, most notably at the FAO, where his
comprehensive plans for improving food production and its equitable
distribution failed to get the support of Britain and the US. He then
resigned from the FAO and became director of a number of companies
and proved a canny investor in the stock market, making a
considerable personal fortune. When he received the Nobel Peace Prize
in 1949, he donated the entire financial award to organizations
devoted to world peace and a united world government...
...In
1960 Boyd Orr was elected the first president of the World Academy of
Art and Science, which was set up by eminent scientists of the day
concerned about the potential misuse of scientific discoveries, most
especially nuclear weapons.
ha
az Off Course Angolon edződtél, akkor tudni fogod, mi hiányzik :)
...és akkor a feltételes mód sem fog gondot okozni –
viszont vannak egyéb nehézségek...
Wikipedia:
Kelvin R. Throop (also 'Kelvin R. Throop III' or 'Kelvin Throop III')
is a fictional character and collective pseudonym created by R. A. J.
Phillips in a story which appeared in Analog Science Fiction and
Science Fact magazine in July 1964. With the encouragement of editor
John W. Campbell, Throop subsequently figured in additional stories
by other authors. The archetypal Throop story finds him within a
large bureaucracy which, solely by his acid-penned memos, he causes
to self-destruct, whereupon he disappears until the next story. In
mid-December 1984, Analog published a special Kelvin Throop humor
edition. Numerous humorous epigrams attributed to Throop were
published in Analog over a period of decades...
...Analog
Science Fiction and Fact is an American science fiction magazine. As
of 2015, it is the longest running continuously published magazine of
that genre, the June 2015 issue being number 1,000.
The
first issue of Astounding Stories, January 1930
Initially
published in 1930 in the United States as Astounding Stories as a
pulp magazine, it has undergone several name changes, primarily
toAstounding Science-Fiction in 1938, and Analog Science Fact &
Fiction in 1960. In November 1992, its logo changed to use the term
"Fiction and Fact" rather than "Fact & Fiction".
It is in the library of the International Space Station. Spanning
three incarnations since 1930, this is perhaps the most influential
magazine in the history of the genre. It remains a fixture of the
genre today...
Wikipedia:
Leonard Alfred Schneider (October 13, 1925 – August 3, 1966),
better known by his stage name Lenny Bruce, was an American stand-up
comedian, social critic, satirist, and screenwriter. He was renowned
for his open, free-style and critical form of comedy which integrated
satire, politics, religion, sex, and vulgarity. His 1964 conviction
in an obscenitytrial was followed by a posthumous pardon, the first
in New York State history, by then-Governor George Pataki in 2003. He
paved the way for future outspoken counterculture-era comedians, and
his trial for obscenity is seen as a landmark for freedom of speech
in the United States...
...On
October 4, 1961, Bruce was arrested for obscenity at the Jazz
Workshop in San Francisco; he had used the wordcocksucker and riffed
that "to is a preposition, come is a verb", that the sexual
context of come is so common that it bears no weight, and that if
someone hearing it becomes upset, he "probably can't come".
Although the jury acquitted him, other law enforcement agencies began
monitoring his appearances, resulting in frequent arrests under
charges of obscenity...
...Bruce
was arrested again in 1961... ...The specification this time was that
the comedian had used the word schmuck, an insulting Yiddish term
that is an obscene term for penis...
...On
December 5, 1962, Bruce was arrested at the legendary Gate of Horn
folk club in Chicago...
...In
April 1964, he appeared twice at the Cafe Au Go Go in Greenwich
Village with undercover police detectives in the audience. He was
arrested along with the club owners, Howard and Elly Solomon, who
were arrested for allowing an obscene performance to take place. On
both occasions, he was arrested after leaving the stage, the
complaints again pertaining to his use of various obscenities...
...On
December 23, 2003, 37 years after his death, New York Governor George
Pataki granted Bruce a posthumous pardon for his obscenity
conviction.
the last bit of a strong Ali
week: a bokszoló (Muhammad Ali) hitvallása – be tudod fejezni? a
fordítás meg sima ügy – bár egy hibát szinte biztosan elkövetsz...
Arguably boxing's most celebrated
athlete, heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali was also known for his
public stance against the Vietnam War and his longtime battle with
Parkinson's disease...
...Born Cassius Clay in Louisville,
Kentucky, in 1942, Muhammad Ali became an Olympic gold medalist in
1960 and the world heavyweight boxing champion in 1964. Following his
suspension for refusing military service, Ali reclaimed the
heavyweight title two more times during the 1970s, winning famed
bouts against Joe Frazier and George Foreman along the way. Diagnosed
with Parkinson's disease in 1984, Ali devoted much of his time to
philanthropy, earning the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005. He
died on June 3, 2016, in Phoenix, Arizona...
...In his retirement, Ali devoted much
of his time to philanthropy. He announced that he had Parkinson's
disease in 1984, a degenerative neurological condition, and was
involved in raising funds for the Muhammad Ali Parkinson Center in
Phoenix, Arizona. Over the years, Ali also supported the Special
Olympics and the Make-A-Wish Foundation, among other organizations.
In 1996, he lit the Olympic cauldron at the Summer Olympic Games in
Atlanta, an emotional moment in sports history...
...Ali traveled to numerous countries,
including Mexico and Morocco, to help out those in need. In 1998, he
was chosen to be a United Nations Messenger of Peace because of his
work in developing nations.
nem fogod kitalálni, hogyan
vágott vissza poénosan a légikisasszony a viccesen nagyképű
Alinak! a fordításban csak a felszólítást és „sem”-et kell
jól csinálnod, ráadásul itt végre tök laza lehetsz, például
kétszer is duplán tagadhatsz :)
Wikipedia:
...Vietnam War and resistance to the draft
Ali registered for conscription
in the United States military on his 18th birthday and was listed as
1-A in 1962. In 1964, he was reclassified as Class 1-Y (fit for
service only in times of national emergency) after two mental tests
found his IQ was 78 (16th percentile), well below the armed force's
30th-percentile threshold. (He was quoted as saying, "I said I
was the greatest, not the smartest!") By early 1966, the army
lowered its standards to permit soldiers above the 15th percentile
and Ali was again classified as 1-A. This classification meant he was
now eligible for the draft and induction into the United States Army
during a time when the U.S. was involved in the Vietnam War.
When notified of this status,
Ali declared that he would refuse to serve in the army and publicly
considered himself a conscientious objector. Ali stated: "War is
against the teachings of the Qur'an. I'm not trying to dodge the
draft. We are not supposed to take part in no wars unless declared by
Allah or The Messenger. We don't take part in Christian wars or wars
of any unbelievers." He famously stated: "Man, I ain't got
no quarrel with them Viet Cong." Ali elaborated: "Why
should they ask me to put on a uniform and go ten thousand miles from
home and drop bombs and bullets on brown people in Vietnam while
so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied
simple human rights?"
Appearing
for his scheduled induction into the U.S. Armed Forces on April 28,
1967, in Houston, Ali refused three times to step forward at the call
of his name. An officer warned him he was committing a felony
punishable by five years in prison and a fine of $10,000. Once more,
Ali refused to budge when his name was called. As a result, he was
arrested. On the same day the New York State Athletic Commission
suspended his boxing license and stripped him of his title. Other
boxing commissions followed suit. Ali would not be able to obtain a
license to box in any state for over three years.
At
the trial on June 20, 1967, after only 21 minutes of deliberation,
the jury found Ali guilty. After a Court of Appeals upheld the
conviction, the case went to the U.S. Supreme Court.
In
the years between the Appellate Court decision and the Supreme Court
verdict, Ali remained free. As public opinion began turning against
the war and the Civil Rights Movement continued to gather momentum,
Ali became a popular speaker at colleges and universities across the
country, rare if not unprecedented for a boxer. At Howard University,
for example, he gave his popular "Black Is Best" speech to
4,000 cheering students and community intellectuals, after he was
invited to speak by sociology professor Nathan Hare on behalf of the
Black Power Committee, a student protest group.
On
June 28, 1971, the Supreme Court of the United States in Clay v.
United States overturned Ali's conviction by a unanimous 8–0
decision (Justice Thurgood Marshall recused himself, as he had been
the U.S. Solicitor General at the time of Ali's conviction). The
decision was not based on, nor did it address, the merits of Ali's
claims per se; rather, the Court held that since the Appeal Board
gave no reason for the denial of a conscientious objector exemption
to Ali, and that it was therefore impossible to determine which of
the three basic tests for conscientious objector status offered in
the Justice Department's brief that the Appeals Board relied on,
Ali's conviction must be reversed.
szerény
képzelőerőddel is ki fogod találni, melyik szó hiányzik (adok
dőlt betűs segítséget). a fordításban viszont szinte biztosan
elkövetsz egy hibát, még ha haladósnak is érzed magad...
Muhammad
Ali, the silver-tongued boxer and civil rights champion who famously
proclaimed himself "The Greatest" and then spent a lifetime
living up to the billing, is dead.
Ali
died Friday at a Phoenix-area hospital, where he had spent the past
few days being treated for respiratory complications, a family
spokesman confirmed to NBC News. He was 74.
"After
a 32-year battle with Parkinson's disease, Muhammad Ali has passed
away at the age of 74. The three-time World Heavyweight Champion
boxer died this evening," Bob Gunnell, a family spokesman, told
NBC News...
...In
recent years, Ali's health began to suffer dramatically. There was a
death scare in 2013, and last year he was rushed to the hospital
after being found unresponsive. He recovered and returned to his new
home in Arizona.
In
his final years, Ali was barely able to speak. Asked to share his
personal philosophy with NPR in 2009, Ali let his wife read his
essay: "I never thought of the possibility of failing, only of
the fame and glory I was going to get when I won," Ali wrote. "I
could see it. I could almost feel it. When I proclaimed that I was
the greatest of all time, I believed in myself, and I still do."
kitalálod-e, miért nincs
jelentősége –
Samuel Johnson szerint? (szerinted igaza
van?!) a fordítással komolyan tesztelheted magad, vajon tényleg
haladó vagy-e (vagy csak beképzelt)...
Wikipedia:
Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [O.S. 7 September] – 13 December
1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who
made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist,
moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.
Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been
described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in
English history"...
In 1746, a group of publishers
approached Johnson with an idea about creating an authoritative
dictionary of the English language. A contract with William Strahan
and associates, worth 1,500 guineas, was signed on the morning of 18
June 1746. Johnson claimed that he could finish the project in three
years. In comparison, the Académie Française had forty scholars
spending forty years to complete their dictionary, which prompted
Johnson to claim, "This is the proportion. Let me see; forty
times forty is sixteen hundred. As three to sixteen hundred, so is
the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman." Although he did
not succeed in completing the work in three years, he did manage to
finish it in eight. Some criticised the dictionary, including Thomas
Babington Macaulay, who described Johnson as "a wretched
etymologist," but according to Bate, the Dictionary "easily
ranks as one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship, and
probably the greatest ever performed by one individual who laboured
under anything like the disadvantages in a comparable length of
time."...
...The Dictionary was finally
published in April 1755, with the title page acknowledging that
Oxford had awarded Johnson a Master of Arts degree in anticipation of
the work. The dictionary as published was a huge book. Its pages were
nearly 18 inches (46 cm) tall, and the book was 20 inches (51 cm)
wide when opened; it contained 42,773 entries, to which only a few
more were added in subsequent editions, and it sold for the
extravagant price of £4 10s, perhaps the rough equivalent of £350
today. An important innovation in English lexicography was to
illustrate the meanings of his words by literary quotation, of which
there were approximately 114,000. The authors most frequently cited
include William Shakespeare, John Milton and John Dryden. It was
years beforeJohnson's Dictionary, as it came to be known, turned a
profit. Authors' royalties were unknown at the time, and Johnson,
once his contract to deliver the book was fulfilled, received no
further money from its sale. Years later, many of its quotations
would be repeated by various editions of the Webster's Dictionary and
the New English Dictionary.
ha elmúltál 18, sőt, akkor
kitalálhatod, mi lehet a hiányzó szó... segíthet, ha elárulom,
hogy a forrás: Woody Allen?... aztán a fordításhoz adok kis
segítséget, de csak akkor ugorj neki, ha haladó (vagy nagyképű)
vagy :)
Gonna
tell a love story now, 'cause you have background material on me. Ah,
this occurred before I was married, a long time ago, out in
Manhattan, I was in Manhattan. I was at City Center, this was ages
ago, I was watching a ballet at City Center, and I'm not a ballet fan
at all, but they were doing the dying swan, and there was a rumour,
that some bookmakers had drifted into town from upstate New York, and
that they had fixed the ballet. Apparently there was a lot of money
bet on the swan to live. And I look at the box, and I see a girl, and
my weak spot is women, ah, so I always think someday they're gonna
make me a birthday party, and wheel out a tremendous birthday cake,
and a giant, naked woman is gonna leap out of the cake and hurt me
and leap back in the cake.
So
I pick up this girl, I was very glib, and she was a brilliant girl,
she was a Bennington girl, studying at Bennington to be a woman male
nurse at a four-year program, working on a term paper on the
increasing incidents of heterosexuality amongst homosexuals. The girl
was a swinger, however, I must....The girl was brought up in Darien,
Conneticut, and when she was younger, she had a little brother about
six years old, eight years...his parents sent the kid to military
school. And while he was there, he stole jam or something, and they
caught him, and they wanted to do things right, 'cause it was
military school, so they held a court martial there. They found the
kid guilty. They shot him. They returned to his parents half the
tuition.
Meanwhile,
I was running amok with his sister, his sister was fabulous, she was
a great, great, blonde, and she had tatooed on the inner surface of
her thigh, the words 'Bird lives', which, unfortunately, I was never
privileged to see in the relationship, but had it been printed in
Braille, I would have had a great thing going with her. We used to go
up to her apartment late at night, and all her beatnik friends would
be sitting crosslegged on each other there, and they would be trying
to make opium out of the poppies given out by veterans on street
corners. She used to plug in her twelve and a half dollar hi-fi set,
y'know, with the teakwood needle, and put on the record albums on of
Marcel Marceau, y'know, just...
She
crushed me, I...Every time I tell the story, I'm reminded...I was
what you would call, not a intellectual, up to her...she was...I was
thrown out of college, and when I was thrown out of college I got a
job on Madison Avenue in New york, a real dyed-in-the-wool
advertising agency on Madison Avenue, wanted a man to come in, and
they pay him ninetyfive dollars a week, and to sit in their office,
and to look jewish. They wanted to prove to the outside world, that
they would hire minority groups, y'know. So I was the one they hired,
y'know. I was the show jew at the agency. I tried to look jewish
desperately, y'know. I used to read my memos from right to left all
the time. They fired me finally, 'cause I took off too many jewish
holidays.
na,
mit gondolsz, hogy fejezi be ezt egy istentelenül profi
politikus?... és hogyan oldja meg, hogy – nő létére – ne
kelljen a „he” személyes névmást használnia? nem a nyelvtan
itt a nehéz :)
Wikipedia:
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS, FRIC
(née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a British
stateswoman and politician who was the Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party
from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British Prime Minister
of the 20th century and is currently the only woman to have held the
office. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a
nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and
leadership style. As Prime Minister, she implemented policies that
have come to be known as Thatcherism.
Originally
a research chemist before becoming a barrister, Thatcher was elected
Member of Parliament (MP) for Finchley in 1959. Edward Heath
appointed her Secretary of State for Education and Science in his
1970 government. In 1975, Thatcher defeated Heath in the Conservative
Party leadership election to become Leader of the Opposition and
became the first woman to lead a major political party in the United
Kingdom. She became Prime Minister after winning the 1979 general
election...
...Thatcher
became Prime Minister on 4 May 1979. Arriving at 10 Downing Street,
she said, in a paraphrase of St. Francis of Assisi's prayer Make Me
an Instrument of Your Peace:
Where
there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we
bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where
there is despair, may we bring hope.
Sean
O'Faolain, an Irish writer who was considered a master of the short
story, died on Saturday in the Dublin nursing home where he had lived
for two years. He was 91 years old...
...Mr.
O'Faolain, whose original name was John Francis Whelan, was born in
County Cork on Feb. 22, 1900, the son of a constable. "From an
early age he was inhibited," Gordon Henderson wrote in his
Dictionary of Literary Biography, by "his father's unquestioning
respect for authority, his mother's excessive piety, and the
preoccupation both had with rising above their peasant-farmer
origins."...
...For
more than 60 years, Mr. O'Faolain (pronounced oh-FAY-lawn) won over
readers with short stories that were known for their artful blend of
lyricism, humor and irony. A prolific writer, he also wrote novels,
biographies of leading Irish figures, plays and travelogues...
..."As
I see it," he said, "a short story, if it is a good story,
is like a child's kite -- a small wonder, a brief, bright moment."
Ireland With Some Irony...
..."Everything
I write is romantic. But I know too that I have to put in -- that my
only hope of sanity and balance is to put in -- irony. Irony is the
only element that saves me from being soppy."...
...The
most traumatic event of his youth was the Easter rebellion of 1916.
He first opposed the uprising, but soon became enraged by the
brutality of the British forces in crushing it and executing its
leaders. He studied Gaelic, changed his name and joined in
anti-British activities, but avoided extreme violence, observing
later, "To have cast me for the role of a gunman would have been
like casting me as a bull-fighter." Stories of the Troubles...
..."Like
Joyce and O'Connor," Gordon Henderson wrote, Mr. O'Faolain "took
the short story as he received it from Maupassant and Chekhov and
transformed it into something uniquely his own and uniquely
Irish."...
a söralátétnél is egyszerűbb
adóbevallás (a dőlt betűs segítségből kitalálhatod a
poént)... a fordításhoz már nem sokkal a kezdő szint után is
nekirugaszkodhatsz.
Wikipedia:
Income taxes are used in most countries around the world. The tax
systems vary greatly and can be progressive, proportional, or
regressive, depending on the type of tax. Comparison of tax rates
around the world is a difficult and somewhat subjective enterprise.
Tax laws in most countries are extremely complex, and tax burden
falls differently on different groups in each country and
sub-national unit. Of course, services provided by governments in
return for taxation also vary, making comparisons all the more
difficult.
Countries
that tax income generally use one of two systems: territorial or
residential. In the territorial system, only local income – income
from a source inside the country – is taxed. In the residential
system, residents of the country are taxed on their worldwide (local
and foreign) income, while nonresidents are taxed only on their local
income. In addition, a very small number of countries, notably the
United States, also tax their nonresident citizens on worldwide
income...
...The
first income tax is generally attributed to Egypt. In the early days
of the Roman Republic, public taxes consisted of modest assessments
on owned wealth and property. The tax rate under normal circumstances
was 1% and sometimes would climb as high as 3% in situations such as
war. These modest taxes were levied against land, homes and other
real estate, slaves, animals, personal items and monetary wealth. The
more a person had in property, the more tax they paid. Taxes were
collected from individuals...
...One
of the first recorded taxes on income was the Saladin tithe
introduced by Henry II in 1188 to raise money for the Third Crusade.
The tithe demanded that each layperson in England and Wales be taxed
one tenth of their personal income and moveable property...
...The inception date of the
modern income tax is typically accepted as 1799, at the suggestion of
Dr Beeke, Dean of Bristol. This income tax was introduced into Great
Britain by Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger in his budget of
December 1798, to pay for weapons and equipment for the French
Revolutionary War.
...The US federal government
imposed the first personal income tax, on August 5, 1861, to help pay
for its war effort in the American Civil War (3% of all incomes over
US$800) (equivalent to $21,070 in 2015). This tax was repealed and
replaced by another income tax in 1862. It was only in 1894 that the
first peacetime income tax was passed through the Wilson-Gorman
tariff. The rate was 2% on income over $4000 (equivalent to $109,400
in 2015), which meant fewer than 10% of households would pay any. The
purpose of the income tax was to make up for revenue that would be
lost by tariff reductions. In 1913, the Sixteenth Amendment to the
United States Constitution made the income tax a permanent fixture in
the U.S. tax system. In fiscal year 1918, annual internal revenue
collections for the first time passed the billion-dollar mark, rising
to $5.4 billion by 1920.
Wikipedia: Mental As Anything
are an Australian new wave/pop-rock band formed at an art school in
Sydney in 1976. Its most popular line-up (which lasted from
1977-1999) was Martin Plaza (birth name Martin Murphy) on vocals and
guitar; Reg Mombassa (birth name Chris O'Doherty) on lead guitar and
vocals; his brother Peter "Yoga Dog" O'Doherty onbass
guitar and vocals; Wayne "Bird" Delisle (birth name David
Twohill) on drums; and Andrew "Greedy" Smith on vocals,
keyboards and harmonica. Their original hit songs were generated by
Mombassa, O'Doherty, Plaza and Smith, either individually or
collectively; they also hit the Australian charts with covers of
songs by Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry.
Their top ten Australian singles
are "If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too?" and "Too Many
Times" (both from 1981), "Live It Up" (1985) and "Rock
and Roll Music" (1988). Internationally, "Too Many Times"
made the Canadian top 40 in 1982, and "Live It Up" peaked
at No. 3 in UK, No. 4 in Norway, and No. 6 in Germany, after it
featured in the 1986 Australian film "Crocodile" Dundee...
...Mental As Anything's music is
characterised by poppy, accessible and well-crafted melodies and
lyrics, and their work showcases an ironic, satirical and
self-deprecating sense of humour. They are a typically "Australian"
rock group, with their music and their satirical, good-time image
deeply rooted in the milieu of Australian suburbia, despite the fact
that two key members (the O'Doherty brothers) were in fact immigrants
from New Zealand. The group's art school background and visual design
skills also made them pioneers of the music video form in Australia
in the late 1970s and early 1980s, and their videos rank as some of
the funniest and most imaginative produced in Australia at that time.
Mental
As Anything is arguably comparable with contemporaneous British acts
Madness, Squeeze, XTC and Nick Lowe in that their classic pop meets
new wave music is typically delivered with a quirky, ironic sense of
humour and a decidedly local flavour.
Wikipedia:
Alfred E. Neuman is the fictitious mascot and cover boy of Mad, an
American humor magazine. The face had drifted through U.S.
pictography for decades before being claimed by Mad editor Harvey
Kurtzman, and later named by the magazine's second editor Al
Feldstein. He appeared occasionally in the early seasons of MADtv
during sketches and interstitials and briefly appeared in the
animated TV series Mad.
Since
his debut in Mad, Neuman's likeness has appeared on the cover of all
but a handful of the magazine's 500 issues, distinguished by jug
ears, a missing front tooth, and one eye lower than the other. His
face is rarely seen in profile; he has virtually always been shown in
front view, directly from behind, or in silhouette. Harvey Kurtzman
first spotted the image on a postcard pinned to the office bulletin
board of Ballantine Books editor Bernard Shir-Cliff. "It was a
face that didn't have a care in the world, except mischief,"
recalled Kurtzman. Shir-Cliff was later a contributor to various
magazines created by Kurtzman...
When
Al Feldstein took over as Mad's editor in 1956, he seized upon the
face: I decided that I wanted to have this visual logo as the image
of Mad, the same way that corporations had the Jolly Green Giant and
the dog barking at the gramophone for RCA. This kid was the perfect
example of what I wanted. So I put an ad in the New York Times that
said, "National magazine wants portrait artist for special
project". In walked this little old guy in his sixties named
Norman Mingo, and he said, "What national magazine is this?"
I said “Mad,” and he said, "Goodbye." I told him to
wait, and I dragged out all these examples and postcards of this
idiot kid, and I said, "I want a definitive portrait of this
kid. I don't want him to look like an idiot — I want him to be
loveable and have an intelligence behind his eyes. But I want him to
have this devil-may-care attitude, someone who can maintain a sense
of humor while the world is collapsing around him." I adapted
and used that portrait, and that was the beginning.
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haladósnak hiszed magad, próbáld meg lefordítani, hátha megy a
dőlt betűs segítség felhasználásával...
Wikipedia: James Allen "Jim"
Hightower (born January 11, 1943) is an American syndicated
columnist, progressive political activist, and author who
served from 1983 to 1991 as the elected commissioner of the Texas
Department of Agriculture...
...In
recent years, Hightower has advocated for industrial hemp as a
sustainable agricultural crop. Hightower talked about American
farmers being unable to grow hemp due to the current policy of
prohibition saying, "You can buy these hemp products, but –
here comes the goofiness – our farmers are not allowed to grow the
hemp! Instead, it comes from Canada, China, and elsewhere." He
goes on to explain, "Our nation is the world's biggest consumer
of hemp products (from rope to shampoo, building materials to food),
yet the mad masters of our insane "drug war" have lumped
hemp and marijuana together as "Schedule 1 controlled
substances" – making our Land of the Free the world's only
industrialized country that bans farmers from growing this benign,
profitable, job-creating, and environmentally-beneficial, plant."...
...The
"Doug Jones Average," a concept created by Jim Hightower,
is the proposal that in order to check the true health of the
American economy, it is less useful to look at the Dow Jones
Industrial Average than it is to check up on how Doug Jones down the
street is doing. If Doug Jones is on welfare, cannot feed his family,
is blowing his savings, and is three weeks behind on his bills, the
Doug Jones average is "down." If Doug just got a raise, can
pay his bills and Doug and his family are looking into owning a nice
but not too expensive house, the Doug Jones average is "up."
Wikipedia: The United States Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz was
acquired by the United States Department of Justice on October 12,
1933, and the island became a federal prison in August 1934. Alcatraz
was designed to hold prisoners who continuously caused trouble at
other federal prisons. At 9:40 am in the morning of August 11, 1934,
the first batch of 137 prisoners arrived at Alcatraz, arriving by
railroad from the United States Penitentiary in Leavenworth, Kansas
at Santa Venetia, California, before being escorted to Alcatraz,
handcuffed in high security coaches and guarded by some 60 special
FBI agents, U.S. Marshals and railway security officials. Most of the
prisoners were notorious bank robbers and murderers. The prison
initially had a staff of 155, including the first warden James A.
Johnston and associate warden J. E. Shuttleworth, both considered to
be "iron men". The staff were highly trained in security,
but not rehabilitation.
During the 29 years it was in use, the jail held some of the most
notorious criminals in American history, such as Al Capone, Robert
Franklin Stroud (the Birdman of Alcatraz), George "Machine Gun"
Kelly, Bumpy Johnson, Rafael Cancel Miranda (a member of the Puerto
Rican Nationalist Party who attacked theUnited States Capitol
building in 1954), Mickey Cohen, Arthur R. "Doc" Barker,
James "Whitey" Bulger, and Alvin "Creepy" Karpis
(who served more time at Alcatraz than any other inmate). It also
provided housing for the Bureau of Prisons staff and their families.
During its 29
years of operation, the penitentiary claimed that no prisoner
successfully escaped. A total of 36 prisoners made 14 escape
attempts, two men trying twice; 23 were caught alive, six were shot
and killed during their escape, two drowned, and five are listed as
"missing and presumed drowned". The most violent occurred
on May 2, 1946, when a failed escape attempt by six prisoners led to
the Battle of Alcatraz.
Harold
Dwight Lasswell, (born February 13, 1902, Donnellson, Illinois, U.S.
— died December 18, 1978, New York, New York) influential political
scientist known for seminal studies of power relations and of
personality and politics and for other major contributions to
contemporary behavioral political science. He authored more than 30
books and 250 scholarly articles on diverse subjects, including
international relations, psychoanalysis, and legal education...
...Lasswell viewed political
science as the study of changes in the distribution of value patterns
in society, and, because distribution depends on power, the focal
point of his analysis was power dynamics. He defined values as
desired goals and power as the ability to participate in decisions,
and he conceived political power as the ability to produce intended
effects on other people. In Politics: Who Gets What, When, How (1936)
— a work whose title later served as the standard lay definition of
politics — he viewed the elite as the primary holders of power, but
in Power and Society: A Framework for Political Inquiry (1950),
written with Abraham Kaplan, the discussion was broadened to include
a general framework for political inquiry that examined key analytic
categories such as person, personality, group, and culture...
...His
works on political psychology include Psychopathology and Politics
(1930), which seeks the means of channeling the desire for domination
to healthy ends; World Politics and Personal Insecurity (1935); and
Power and Personality (1948), which deals with the problem of power
seekers who sublimate their personal frustrations in power. In these
and later works, Lasswell moved toward a moralistic posture, calling
for the social and biological sciences to reorient themselves toward
a science of social policy that would serve the democratic will for
justice. Other features of political science that can be traced to
Lasswell include systems theory, functional and role analysis, and
content analysis...
Wikipedia:
Thomas Jefferson (April 13 [O.S. April 2] 1743 – July 4, 1826) was
an American Founding Father who was principal author of the
Declaration of Independence (1776). He was elected the second Vice
President of the United States (1797–1801), serving under John
Adams and in 1800 was elected third President (1801–09). Jefferson
was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights,
which motivated American colonists to break from Great Britain and
form a new nation. He produced formative documents and decisions at
both the state and national level...
...Jefferson
was the primary author of the Declaration of Independence. At age 33
he was one of the youngest delegates to the Second Continental
Congress beginning in 1775 at the outbreak of the American
Revolutionary War where a formal declaration of independence from
Britain was overwhelmingly favored. Jefferson chose his words for the
Declaration in June 1775 shortly after the war had begun where the
idea of Independence from Britain had long since become popular among
the colonies. He was also inspired by the Enlightenment ideals of the
sanctity of the individual as well as the writings of Locke and
Montesquieu...
...The declaration was
introduced on Friday, June 28, and congress began debate over its
contents on Monday, July 1. resulting in the omission of a fourth of
the text, including a passage critical of King George III and the
slave trade. While Jefferson resented the changes, he did not speak
publicly about the revisions. On July 4, 1776, the Congress ratified
the Declaration, and delegates signed it on August 2 and in doing so
were committing an act of treason against the Crown. Jefferson's
preamble is regarded as an enduring statement of human rights, and
the phrase "all men are created equal" has been called "one
of the best-known sentences in the English language" containing
"the most potent and consequential words in American history"...
Wikipedia:
Herbert Arthur "Herb" Shriner (May 29, 1918 – April 23,
1970) was an American humorist, radio personality andtelevision host.
Shriner was known for his homespun monologues, usually about his home
state of Indiana. He was frequently compared to humorist Will
Rogers...
...Shriner
was born Herbert Arthur Schriner in Toledo, Ohio, the son of Edith
(née Rockwell) and Peter Schriner. He moved to Fort Wayne as a small
child, when his mother left his father. Shriner learned to play the
harmonica as a grade school student. He formed a quintet when he was
in high school; expanded to an octet, it made frequent local
appearances. Shriner then performed on his own. When his lip gave out
one night, he filled time by telling homespun stories. His deadpan
comedy routines became more popular than his music, and soon he was
entertaining audiences with stories about a fictional Hoosier
hometown...
...Shriner
and his wife, Eileen “Pixie” McDermott, moved with their children
to Florida, returning each summer to Angola, Indiana. Shriner
invested in real estate and collected vintage automobiles. In 1970,
he and his wife were killed in Delray Beach, Florida, in one of those
cars, a Studebaker Avanti, when the brakes failed. Some of his
collection can be seen in the Auburn Cord Duesenberg Automobile
Museum in Auburn, Indiana.
Shriner's
children are a daughter, Indy (named after Indianapolis, Indiana),
and twin sons, actor, comedian and director Wil Shriner (named for
Will Rogers) andsoap opera actor Kin Shriner (named for Frank
McKinney 'Kin" Hubbard, an early 20th-century Southern Indiana
folk humorist).
On
August 22, 1893, Dorothy Parker was born to J. Henry and Elizabeth
Rothschild, at their summer home in West End, New Jersey. Growing up
on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, her childhood was an unhappy one.
Both her mother and step-mother died when she was young; her uncle,
Martin Rothschild, went down on the Titanic in 1912; and her father
died the following year. Young Dorothy attended a Catholic grammar
school, then a finishing school in Morristown, NJ. Her formal
education abruptly ended when she was 14.
In
1914, Dorothy sold her first poem to Vanity Fair. At age 22, she took
an editorial job at Vogue. She continued to write poems for
newspapers and magazines, and in 1917 she joined Vanity Fair, taking
over for P.G. Wodehouse as drama critic. That same year she married a
stockbroker, Edwin P. Parker. But the marriage was tempestuous, and
the couple divorced in 1928.
In
1919, Parker became a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table,
an informal gathering of writers who lunched at the Algonquin Hotel.
The “Vicious Circle” included Robert Benchley, Harpo Marx, George
S Kaufman, and Edna Ferber, and was known for its scathing wit and
intellectual commentary. In 1922, Parker published her first short
story, “Such a Pretty Little Picture," for Smart Set.
When
the New Yorker debuted in 1925, Parker was listed on the editorial
board. Over the years, she contributed poetry, fiction and book
reviews as the “Constant Reader.”
Parker’s
first collection of poetry, Enough Rope, was published in 1926, and
was a bestseller. Her two subsequent collections were Sunset Gun in
1928 andDeath and Taxes in 1931. Her collected fiction came out in
1930 as Laments for the Living.
During
the 1920s, Parker traveled to Europe several times. She befriended
Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, socialites Gerald and Sarah
Murphy, and contributed articles to the New Yorker and Life. While
her work was successful and she was well-regarded for her wit and
conversational abilities, she suffered from depression and alcoholism
and attempted suicide.
In
1929, she won the O. Henry Award for her autobiographical short story
“Big Blonde.” She produced short fiction in the early 1930s, and
also began writing drama reviews for the New Yorker. In 1934, Parker
married actor-writer Alan Campbell in New Mexico; the couple
relocated to Los Angeles and became a highly paid screenwriting team.
They labored for MGM and Paramount on mostly forgettable features,
the highlight being an Academy Award nomination for A Star Is Born in
1937. They divorced in 1947, and remarried in 1950.
Parker,
who became a socialist in 1927 when she became involved in the Sacco
and Vanzetti trial, was called before the House on Un-American
Activities in 1955. She pleaded the Fifth Amendment.
Parker
was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1959
and was a visiting professor at California State College in Los
Angeles in 1963. That same year, her husband died of an overdose. On
June 6, 1967, Parker was found dead of a heart attack in a New York
City hotel at age 73. A firm believer in civil rights, she bequeathed
her literary estate to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Upon his
assassination some months later, the estate was turned over to the
NAACP.
Wikipedia:
Woody Allen is an American film director, screenwriter, actor,
author, jazz musician, comedian and playwright. He contributed to
many films as either actor, director, writer or sometimes both. Allen
wrote four plays for the stage, and written sketches for the Broadway
revue From A to Z, and the Broadway productions Don't Drink the Water
(1966) and Play It Again, Sam (1969).
His
first film was the 1965 comedy What's New Pussycat?, which featured
him as both writer and performer. His directorial debut was the 1966
film What's Up, Tiger Lily?, in which a dramatic Japanese spy movie
was re-dubbed in English with completely new, comic dialog. He
continued to write, direct, and star in comedic slapstick films, such
as Bananas (1971) andSleeper (1973), before he found widespread
critical acclaim for his romantic comedies Annie Hall (1977) and
Manhattan (1979); he won Academy Awards for Best Director and Best
Original Screenplay for the former.
Allen
is influenced by European art cinema and ventured into more dramatic
territory, with Interiors (1978) and Another Woman(1988) being prime
examples of this transition. Despite this, he continued to direct
several comedies, and although Match Point(2005), Vicky Cristina
Barcelona (2008), Midnight in Paris (2011) and Blue Jasmine (2013)
were well-received by critics, many of his recent efforts have
received mixed to negative reviews.
In
addition to works of fiction, Allen appeared as himself in many
documentaries and other works of non-fiction, including Stanley
Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, Wild Man Blues and The Concert for New
York City. He has also been the subject of and appeared in three
documentaries about himself, including To Woody Allen, From Europe
with Love in 1980, Woody Allen: A Life in Film in 2001 and the 2011
PBS American Masters documentary, Woody Allen: a Documentary
(directed by Robert B. Weide). He also wrote for and contributed to a
number of television series early in his career, including The
Tonight Show as guest host.
According
to Box Office Mojo, Allen's films have grossed a total of more than
$575 million, with an average of $14 million per film (domestic gross
figures as a director.) Currently, all of the films he directed for
American International Pictures, United Artists and Orion Pictures
between 1965 and 1992 are owned by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which
acquired all the studios in separate transactions. The films he
directed by ABC Pictures are now propierty of American Broadcasting
Company, who in turn licensed their home video rights to MGM.
Comedian,
actor, singer and writer Groucho Marx was born Julius Henry Marx on
October 2, 1890, in New York City. Groucho Marx spent nearly seven
decades making people laugh with his snappy one-liners and sharp wit.
He once described his comedy as "the type of humor that made
people laugh at themselves."
While
he originally aspired to be a doctor, Marx started his career as a
singer. One of his earliest efforts proved to be disastrous, however.
As part of the Le May Trio, Marx got stuck in Colorado for a while
after another group member took off with his pay. He had to work at a
grocery store to earn enough money to make it back to New York.
Marx's
father Samuel never had much success as a tailor, and the family
struggled financially. His mother Minnie hoped that she might find
prosperity through her five children. She became the quintessential
"stage mother," guiding her children's theatrical acts and
even performing herself. The act eventually featured Groucho and his
brothers Leonard, Adolph and Milton...
...The
Marx Brothers had a career breakthrough in 1914 while performing in
Texas. During a show, some of the audience left to go see a runaway
mule. When they returned, the Marx Brothers put aside their usual
routines to make fun of the audience. Groucho's quick-witted quips
won over the crowd. The switch to comedy proved to be their ticket to
success.
By
the 1920s, the Marx Brothers had become a hugely popular theatrical
act. Groucho had developed some of his trademarks by this time. He
often wore a long coat, a painted-on mustache, thick glasses and held
on to a cigar on stage. In addition to just liking cigars, Marx
explained that they proved useful, too. He said that "if you
forget a line, all you have to do is stick the cigar in your mouth
and puff on it until you think of what you've forgotten."...
Wikipedia:
Joseph Heller (May 1, 1923 – December 12, 1999) was an American
satirical novelist, short story writer, and playwright. The title of
one of his works, Catch-22, entered the English lexicon to refer to a
vicious circle wherein an absurd, no-win choice, particularly in
situations in which the desired outcome of the choice is an
impossibility, and regardless of choice, a same negative outcome is a
certainty. Although he is remembered primarily for Catch-22, his
other works center on the lives of various members of the middle
class and remain examples of modern satire...
...Heller was born on May 1,
1923 in Coney Island in Brooklyn, New York, the son of poor Jewish
parents, Lena and Isaac Donald Heller, from Russia. Even as a child,
he loved to write; as a teenager, he wrote a story about the Russian
invasion of Finland and sent it to the New York Daily News, which
rejected it. After graduating from Abraham Lincoln High School in
1941, Heller spent the next year working as a blacksmith's
apprentice, a messenger boy, and a filing clerk. In 1942, at age 19,
he joined the U.S. Army Air Corps. Two years later he was sent to the
Italian Front, where he flew 60 combat missions as aB-25 bombardier.
His unit was the 488th Bombardment Squadron, 340th Bomb Group, 12th
Air Force. Heller later remembered the war as "fun in the
beginning ... You got the feeling that there was something glorious
about it." On his return home he "felt like a hero ...
People think it quite remarkable that I was in combat in an airplane
and I flew sixty missions even though I tell them that the missions
were largely milk runs" ("Milk runs" were combat
missions, but mostly uneventful due to a lack of intense opposition
from enemy anti-aircraft artillery or fighters)...
a
stoop ige – „lecsap vmire” jelentésén kívüli –
egyéb jelentései még jópofábbak:
[intransitive] stoop (down):
to bend your body forwards and downwards She stooped down to pick
up the child. The doorway was so low that he had to stoop. He tends
to stoop because he’s so tall.
[intransitive] to stand or
walk with your head and shoulders bent forwards He tends to stoop
because he's so tall.
stoop
to something: to drop your moral standards to do something bad or
unpleasant You surely don't think I'd stoop to that!
stoop
to doing something: I didn't think he'd stoop to cheating.
Idioms
stoop so low (as to do
something) (formal): to drop your moral standards far enough to do
something bad or unpleasant She
was unwilling to believe anyone would stoop so low as to steal a ring
from a dead woman's finger.
Wikipedia: Stephen Butler
Leacock (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian teacher,
political scientist, writer, and humourist. Between the years 1910
and 1925, he was the most widely read English-speaking author in the
world. He is known for his light humour along with criticisms of
people's follies. The Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour was
named in his honour.
