sinister interests
1special interests — Synonyms and related words: Black Power, Italian vote, Jewish vote, Polish Power, Rasputin, Svengali, VIP, White Power, access, bad influence, big wheel, black vote, court, eminence grise, farm interests, financial interests, five percenter,… …
2Utilitarians (The early) — The early utilitarians Bentham and James Mill G.L.Williams Jeremy Bentham was born in 1748 in London; his prosperous father, a lawyer who became wealthy from property rather than the law, planned out for his son a brilliant legal career. After an …
3Identification in Burkean rhetoric — Identification is a key term for the discussion of rhetoric in Kenneth Burke A Rhetoric of Motives, in which he uses it to evaluate the traditional perception of rhetoricas persuasion. Essentially, Burke suggests that whenever someone attempts to …
4Comte and positivism — Robert Brown COMTE’S AIMS The chief aim of all of Auguste Comte’s publications, and the constant mission of his entire working life, was the improvement of human character through the perfecting of human society. He was convinced that the… …
5Terra (comics) — Infobox comics character character name=Terra converted=y caption=Terra of the Teen Titans alter ego=Tara Markov publisher=DC Comics debut= New Teen Titans Vol. 1 #26 (December, 1982) creators=Marv Wolfman George Pérez alliances=Teen Titans Team… …
6performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical. The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …
7ANTISEMITISM — ANTISEMITISM, a term coined in 1879, from the Greek ἁντί = anti, and Σημ = Semite by the German agitator wilhelm marr to designate the then current anti Jewish campaigns in Europe. Antisemitism soon came into general use as a term denoting all… …
8literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
9Professor X — For other uses, see Professor X (disambiguation). Professor X Professor Charles Xavier. Art by Aaron Lopresti Publication information Publisher …
10international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …
