Robert Newell Merrill

Licia Albanese

…She recorded prodigiously for RCA Victor. Among her recordings are Bizet's Carmen under the direction of Fritz Reiner, with Ris Stevens and Jan Peerce (1951) and Puccini's Manon Lescaut with Jussi Bjorling and Robert Merrill, conducted by Jonel Perlea (1954). For a 1951 recording conducted b...

Robert Merrill

Robert Merrill (June 4, 1917 October 23, 2004) was an American operatic baritone and ... Merrill was born Moishe Miller, later known as Morris Miller, in the ...

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder A Survival Manual For Wiedos, Jerks, and Maladroits

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, A Survival Manual for Wierdoes, Jerks, and Maladroits is an introduction to ADHD and a manual to help the person with ADHD become all that he can be. It is written in simple, direct plain language for people who have trouble paying attention and don’t like t...

They Did Something About It (Essay index reprint series)

The Story of Thanksgiving

Turkey and cranberry sauce. Pumpkin pie. Family and friends around the table. That's what Thanksgiving means to us today. But has it always been this way?Everyone knows that in 1621 the English Pilgrims and the Native American Wampanoags gathered together for a feast. But do you know what they ate a...

Between acts, an irreverent look at opera and other madness

Robert Merrill has written a joyful book of wonderful anecdotes about opera, on and off stage. The book also gives a lovely scenario about the glory days of great performers during the past century. 'Between Acts' is a delightful read, laced with a glorious sense of humor, and facts of the artists w...

Once more from the beginning

Once more from the beginning

Ethics / Aesthetics: Post-Modern Positions (PostModernPositions series)

Postmodernism and poststructuralism recognize no vantage points outside of the practice of art and politics, no transcendental signifiers to structure the experience of reality. That stance creates great problems for the old equations of the good and the beautiful, and it makes discussions of art de...

The pilgrim way

The Pilgrim Way is a scholarly and carefully documented study of the Pilgrim epic centering around John Robinson as its intellectual and spiritual leader. Through his dialogues with eminent scholars, the religious beliefs of the Pilgrims are delineated. The author portrays their struggles in England...

Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut (Critical Essays on American Literature)

Material Culture: Styles, Organization, and Dynamics of Technology

Source and Migration Processes and Evaluation Techniques

Between Acts, an Irreverent Look at Opera and Other Madness

The Divas: A Novel

Joseph Heller

Critical Essays on Kurt Vonnegut

Sir Thomas Malory and the Cultural Crisis of the Late Middle Ages

New Rochelle: Portrait of a City