Candles to the Sun

Candles to the Sun

Author: Dan Isaac

Publisher: New Directions Publishing

Published: 2004-09-17

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13: 0811226336

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This early play about coal miners struggling to improve their lives helped establish a young Tennessee Williams as a powerful new voice in American theater. The first full-length play by novice playwright Thomas Lanier Williams, Candles to the Sun opened on Thursday, March 18, 1937 and received rave reviews in the local press. The Mummers, a semi-professional and socially aware theater troupe in St. Louis, produced the play, and the combination of director Willard Holland's theater of social protest and the young Williams' talent for the dramatic depiction of poverty and its consequences proved irresistible to an audience eager for relevant social content. Set in the Red Hills coal mining section of Alabama, Candles to the Sun deals with both the attempts of the miners to unionize and the bleak lives of their families. Colvin McPherson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote that "Williams, a 25-year-old Washington University senior, is revealed not only as a writer of unusual promise but one of considerable technical skill right now . . . . His writing is rarely unsteady and his play has an emotional unity and robustness. It stands on its own feet. Its characters are genuine, its dialogue of a type that must have been uttered in the author's presence, its appeal in the theater widespread." As it turns out, Tom Williams had never met a miner in his young life. As he did for another early Williams play, Spring Storm, Dan Isaac uses his directorial skills to prepare a text of Candles to the Sun that is faithful to the 1937 production while providing readers (and actors) with a social and theatrical context. William Jay Smith, former Poet Laureate of the United States and St. Louis friend of the playwright, has contributed an illuminating foreword that touches not only on his memories of the young Tom Williams and the original production of Candles, but also on the poetic nature of Williams' writing as reflected in this play.


Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

Early American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases

Author: Bartlett Jere Whiting

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1977

Total Pages: 626

ISBN-13: 9780674219816

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p.B. J. Whiting savors proverbial expressions and has devoted much of his lifetime to studying and collecting them; no one knows more about British and American proverbs than he. The present volume, based upon writings in British North America from the earliest settlements to approximately 1820, complements his and Archer Taylor's Dictionary of American Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases, 1820-1880. It differs from that work and from other standard collections, however, in that its sources are primarily not "literary" but instead workaday writings - letters, diaries, histories, travel books, political pamphlets, and the like. The authors represent a wide cross-section of the populace, from scholars and statesmen to farmers, shopkeepers, sailors, and hunters. Mr. Whiting has combed all the obvious sources and hundreds of out-of-the-way publications of local journals and historical societies. This body of material, "because it covers territory that has not been extracted and compiled in a scholarly way before, can justly be said to be the most valuable of all those that Whiting has brought together," according to Albert B. Friedman. "What makes the work important is Whiting's authority: a proverb or proverbial phrase is what BJW thinks is a proverb or proverbial phrase. There is no objective operative definition of any value, no divining rod; his tact, 'feel, ' experience, determine what's the real thing and what is spurious."


Candles, Meditation and Healing

Candles, Meditation and Healing

Author: Charlene Whitaker

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781567188189

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Candles, Meditation, & Healing by Charlene Whitaker is a delightful book that will allow you to use candles to give powerful readings and divinations as well as do magic. It''s so easy to use it makes a perfect beginner''s guide for yourself or a gift for someone you really care about. The system Whitaker shares for giving readings is simple but very clever! It uses the candle as the center of an astrological chart. Where the wax falls, and the symbols that form in the drippings, allow you to do the interpretation. Everything you need to know about the meanings of the signs and houses, and an enormous symbol dictionary, is included, so you can get started after a few minutes of reading. Pretty good, huh? Obviously, the more you know about astrology, the more in-depth your readings can be. So as a result of this book you may become interested in learning more about the meanings of the stars, planets, and constellations. But you can give powerful readings for yourself or to others with nothing other than this book, a candle, and your imagination. This book also includes how to meditate, so you can help build up your imaginative faculties. You''ll also learn how to make your own altar for doing candle magic. And this book covers many aspects of candle magic, too! You''ll learn about times to do magic and the best days for it. You''ll also learn how to use the color of the candles to enhance your rituals. Of course, the book also explains how to "dress" the candle by blessing it and anointing it with appropriate oils. In short, this book is a complete grimoire! With it you''ll be able to discover challenges and opportunities in all levels of your life: health, finances, romance, travel, spirituality, and more. Then you can use the magic you learn to overcome the challenges and take advantage of the opportunities.


Light Your Way: Make a Candle

Light Your Way: Make a Candle

Author: Carla Mooney

Publisher: Norwood House Press

Published: 2010-07-01

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 1599533871

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Explores the history and science of candles making. Includes step-by-step instructions for making beeswax and milk carton candles. Other topics include decorating candles and safety. Glossary, additional resources and index.


Krishnamurti

Krishnamurti

Author: Mary Lutyens

Publisher: Krishnamurti Foundation Trust Ltd.

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 9781570622885

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Relying heavily on his letters, traces the religious leader's development from Theosophical Society child messiah to independent teacher and the unfolding of his teaching


Climate and Agriculture

Climate and Agriculture

Author: Jen-hu Chang

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-13

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1351527983

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This summary of what is known about microclimatic environments and the effects of climate on plant growth presents a comprehensive statement on the complex relationship between climate and agriculture. The author covers the theory and data of modern physical geography, meteorology, and agronomy within the context of contemporary ecological analysis to produce a book invaluable not only to the student and research worker but also one that deals for the first time with the application of theory to real problems of energy budgets and water balance for the practical agronomist.


General Science

General Science

Author: Bertha May Clark

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2022-09-16

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13:

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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "General Science" by Bertha May Clark. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.