IRVING

city (1990 pop. 155,037), Dallas co., N Tex., a suburb of Dallas; inc. as a city 1952. Building supplies, chemicals, electronic equipment, and airplane parts are manufactured in Irving. The city has grown rapidly along with the expanding business community of the Dallas–Fort Worth metropolitan area, profiting from the nearby oil, aerospace, electronic, engineering, and automobile industries. The prosperous business center, Las Colinas, which is headquarters to ExxonMobil, is also in the vicinity. Texas Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys professional football team, and the Univ. of Dallas are in Irving, and Dallas–Fort Worth Airport borders the city on the west.

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John Irving: A Critical Companion
Book by Josie P. Campbell; Greenwood Press, 1998
Subjects: Fiction, Irving, John--1942---Criticism And Interpretation
JOHN IRVING John Irving. Photograph Cook Neilson. JOHN IRVING A Critical Companion Josie P. Campbell CRITICAL COMPANIONS TO POPULAR CONTEMPORARY WRITERS Kathleen Gregory Klein, Series Editor Greenwood Press Westport, Connecticut...
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Irving Berlin and Ragtime America
Book by Ian Whitcomb; Limelight Editions, 1988
Subjects: Berlin, Irving--1888-, Composers--United States--Biography
...Dictionary of American Music 1986 IRVING BERLIN AND RAGTIME AMERICA Ian Whitcomb...Cataloging-in-Publication Data Whitcomb, Ian, 1941- Irving Berlin and ragtime America. Reprint...Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Berlin, Irving, 1988- . 2. Composers-- United States...
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Washington Irving, Esquire: Ambassador at Large from the New World to the Old
Book by George S. Hellman; A. A. Knopf, 1925
Subjects: Fiction, Irving, Washington--1783-1859
WASHINGTON IRVING ESQUIRE PORTRAIT OF IRVING BY DAVID WILKIE WASHINGTON IRVING ESQUIRE AMBASSADOR AT LARGE FROM THE NEW WORLD TO THE OLD by GEORGE S. HELLMAN Illustrated with old engravings; facsimiles of Irvings letters and manuscripts...
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Henry Irving
Book by Edward Gordon Craig; Longmans, Green and Co., 1930
Subjects: Irving, Henry--Sir--1838-1905
HENRY IRVING By the same Author THE ART OF THE THEATRE...AND THEATRES A PRODUCTION, 1926 Henry Irving Making up ; from the drawing by Paul...By courtesy of Messrs. Heinemann. HENRY IRVING By GORDON CRAIG LONGMANS, GREEN...
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Washington Irving on the Prairie: Or, a Narrative of a Tour of the Southwest in the Year 1832
Book by Henry Leavitt Ellsworth, Stanley T. Williams, Barbara D. Simison; American Book Company, 1937
Subjects: Irving, Washington--1783-1859, Oklahoma--Description And Travel
WASHINGTON IRVING ON THE PRAIRIE Washington Irving on the Prairie OR A NARRATIVE OF A TOUR OF THE SOUTHWEST...BOOK COMPANY All rights reserved Ellsworths Washington Irving on the Prairie W.P. I MADE IN U.S.A. CONTENTS...
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journal articles on: Irving  - 2678 results

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Holocaust Denial Debates: The Symbolic Significance of Irving V. Penguin & Lipstadt
Journal article by Marouf Hasian Jr.; Communication Studies, Vol. 53, 2002
Subjects: Atrocities--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Authors--Cases, Communication--Research, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Irving, David--Cases, Libel and slander--Cases, Lipstadt, Deborah--Cases, Penguin Books Ltd.--Cases, Publishing industry--Cases
...debates: the symbolic significance of Irving v. Penguin Lipstadt. by Jr. Marouf...provide a rhetorical analysis of the famous Irving v. Penguin Lipstadt trial (2000) as...Watt, for example, has worried that the Irving decision will "drive the Holocaust deniers...
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Irving Fisher on the International Transmission of Booms and Depressions through Monetary Standards
Journal article by Robert W. Dimand; Journal of Money, Credit & Banking, Vol. 35, 2003
Subjects: Business cycles--Research, Depressions--Research, Economists--Authorship, Fisher, Irving--Authorship, Fisher, Irving--Research, Gold standard--Research
Irving Fisher on the international transmission of booms and depressions...Internationally through Monetary Standards?" presented by Irving Fisher to the International Statistical Institutes annual...topic, and the only notice taken of it in the literature on Irving Fisher is a single paragraph near the end of a working...
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Irving Howe's "Margin of Hope": World of Our Fathers as Autobiography
Journal article by Gerald Sorin; American Jewish History, Vol. 88, 2000
Subjects: American Jews--Portrayals, Emigration and immigration, Howe, Irving--Criticism and interpretation, Jewish authors--Criticism and interpretation, Jewish writers--Criticism and interpretation, Jews, Jews, American--Portrayals, Jews--Migrations, Judaism--Portrayals, World of Our Fathers (Book)--Criticism and interpretation
Irving Howes "Margin of Hope": World of Our Fathers as Autobiography. by GERALD SORIN...signifies precisely those enveloping forces that shape us before we can even think of choices." Irving Howe, 1969(1) World of Our Fathers, Irving Howes monumental history of the "journey of the East European Jews to America, and the life they...
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Irving J. Lee: A Teacher for Our Times
Journal article by Sanford I. Berman; ETC.: A Review of General Semantics, Vol. 50, 1993
Subjects: College teachers--Attitudes, General semantics--Personalities, Lee, Irving J.--Attitudes, Northwestern University--Officials and employees
Irving J. Lee: a teacher for our times by Sanford I. Berman...basis of this that I received the special scholarship. As Irving Lee later told me, all of the teaching assistantships had...automatically qualified me for a teaching assistantship. Irving Lee, in my opinion, was the greatest teacher we have ever...
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Irving Babbitt, the Moral Imagination, and Progressive Education
Journal article by Glenn A. Davis; Humanitas, Vol. 19, 2006
Subjects: Babbitt, Irving--Appreciation, Babbitt, Irving--Influence, Babbitt, Irving--Works, Critics--Appreciation, Critics--Influence, Critics--Works
Irving Babbitt, the Moral Imagination, and Progressive Education...A. Davis When Literature and the American College, Irving Babbitts critique of the new educational theories, was...elites," and "natural aristocracy." Throughout his works, Irving Babbitt addressed the continuing decline of the humanistic...
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magazine articles on: Irving  - 1726 results

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The Banality of Irving
Magazine article by Mark Greif; The American Prospect, Vol. 11, April 24, 2000
Subjects: Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--History, Irving, David--Cases, National socialism--History
THE BANALITY OF IRVING by MARK GREIF AN ENGLISH...WINNING. The libel suit historian David Irving waged against professor Deborah Lipstadt...Holocaust denier." The Holocaust occurred, Irving says; it just wasnt what everybody says...
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Impressions of the Irving Trial
Magazine article by Michael Kustow; History Today, Vol. 50, May 2000
Subjects: Book publishing--Cases, Historical revisionism--Cases, Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Evidence, Irving, David--Cases, Libel and slander--Cases, Lipstadt, Deborah--Cases, Penguin Books Inc.--Cases
Impressions of the Irving Trial. by Michael Kustow AT STAKE IN DAVID IRVINGS LIBEL action against Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books was not only Irvings contention that his reputation and livelihood had been harmed, but also a bitter...
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Send This Man Straight to Jail: David Irving, Facing Trial in Austria, Has Been Tolerated for Far Too Long. He Is Not the Sad Oddball Some Think; He Is a Threat to Civilised Society
Magazine article by Roger Boyes; New Statesman, Vol. 135, February 20, 2006
Subjects: Freedom of speech--Ethical aspects, Freedom of speech--Social aspects, Holocaust denial--Cases, Irving, David John Cawdell--Behavior, Irving, David John Cawdell--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Irving, David John Cawdell--Cases
Send This Man Straight to Jail: David Irving, Facing Trial in Austria, Has Been Tolerated...Society. by Roger Boyes David Irving is going to wear his blue pinstriped Savile...Charles Gray, it may be remembered, said Irving was a racist, an anti-Semite and a deliberate...
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A Touch of the Poet: As She Portrays Famed Lesbian Poet Elizabeth Bishop Onstage, Amy Irving Reflects on Freedom, Sexuality, and the Beauty of Knowing Oneself
Magazine article by Isa Goldberg; The Advocate, April 11, 2006
Subjects: Bishop, Elizabeth--Appreciation, Bishop, Elizabeth--Works, Gay writers--Appreciation, Gay writers--Works, Irving, Amy--Appreciation, Irving, Amy--Works
...Lesbian Poet Elizabeth Bishop Onstage, Amy Irving Reflects on Freedom, Sexuality, and the...Goldberg As an actor and a woman, Amy Irving has long outgrown her beginnings as that...cross-dressing Barbra Streisand in Yentl. Irving, 52, brings all her earthly experience...
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Socialist Who Loved Keats: The Late Irving Howe ... Was a Beacon of a Certain Kind of Intellectual and Moral Possibility
Magazine article by Nathan Glick; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 281, January 1998
Subjects: Howe, Irving, Intellectual life, Socialists
Socialist Who Loved Keats: The Late Irving Howe ... Was a Beacon of a Certain Kind...Possibility. by Nathan Glick IRVING Howe, who died in 1993, holds a unique...socialist doctrine and literary modernism. Irving Howe may have been the last of a special...
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David Irving Is a Buffoon but Banning Him Is What Stalin Would Have Done
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), March 10, 2008
Subjects: Irving, David John Cawdell
David Irving Is a Buffoon but Banning Him Is What Stalin...is disgraceful that the historian David Irving has beenprevented from participating in...topressurise the Philosophical Society to ditch Irving. Does this mean that I have some sympathy...
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Film Seen with a Writer's Eye; Irving, Williams Adapt Novel into Feature 'Door in Floor'
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, July 16, 2004
Subjects: Irving, John
Film Seen with a Writers Eye; Irving, Williams Adapt Novel into Feature Door...Toto, THE WASHINGTON TIMES Author John Irving says the director of "Simon Birch," the...so fair and honest upfront," says Mr. Irving, in town to promote the latest film adaptation...
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Two-Week Irving Berlin Celebration Kicks off Tonight
Newspaper article; The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), August 3, 2006
Subjects: Annie Get Your Gun (Play), Berlin, Irving
Two-Week Irving Berlin Celebration Kicks off Tonight...of American Musics two-week salute to Irving Berlins America kicks off tonight with...include: "Heat Wave: Improvisations on Irving Berlin," 2:30 p.m. Friday, Jaqua Concert...
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Business: On with the Show Business; Irving Berlin's Showbusiness by David Leopold, Abrams, Pounds 25. Reviewed by Richard Edmonds
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), January 14, 2006
Subjects: Annie Get Your Gun (Play), Berlin, Irving, Entertainment industry
Business: On with the Show Business; Irving Berlins Showbusiness by David Leopold...of that changed and it was all due to Irving Berlins movie, White Christmas. Bing Crosby...the most widely recorded. By that time Irving Berlin had arrived, eventually becoming...
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John Irving vs. Vermont
Newspaper article by Richard Grenier; The Washington Times, June 23, 1998
Subjects: Irving, John, Vermont
John Irving vs. Vermont by Richard Grenier...high-flying literary idealist like John Irving, author of the best-selling "World According...notorious" liberal hes said himself - Mr. Irving could now hardly be more conservative...
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encyclopedia articles on: Irving  - 74 results

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Irving, Washington
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
IRVING, WASHINGTON 1783 1859, American author and diplomat, b. New York City. Irving was one of the first Americans to be recognized abroad...at home. Early Life and Work While he studied law, Irving amused himself by writing for periodicals such essays on...
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Irving, Edward
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
IRVING, EDWARD 1792 1834, Scottish preacher, under whose influence...as assistant (1819 22) to Thomas Chalmers in Glasgow, Irving was called to the Caledonian Church, London, where his...was deposed from the ministry of the Church of Scotland. Irving had, from 1826, been meeting with a group gathered together...
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Irving, Sir Henry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
IRVING, SIR HENRY 1838 1905, English actor and manager, originally...in Leopold Lewiss The Bells, a role he often repeated. Irving managed the Lyceum Theatre, London, from 1878 to 1903...toured the United States where he became quite well known. Irving was knighted in 1895, the first actor to be so honored...
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Irving
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
IRVING city (1990 pop. 155,037), Dallas co., N Tex., a suburb...electronic equipment, and airplane parts are manufactured in Irving. The city has grown rapidly along with the expanding business...professional football team, and the Univ. of Dallas are in Irving, and Dallas Fort Worth Airport borders the city on the...
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Berlin, Irving
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
BERLIN, IRVING b rlin , 1888 1989, American songwriter...Like Show Business." See C. Hamm, ed., Irving Berlin: Early Songs (1995), and R. Kimball...Irvine Berlin (2001); M. E. Barrett, Irving Berlin: A Daughters Memoir (1994); biographies...
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