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Wilson, Robert

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
1941–, dramatist, director, and designer, b. Waco, Tex. He began his arts career as a painter. A leading figure in postmodern theater since 1963, when he arrived in New York City, he has created lengthy, often controversial multimedia events that combine drama, dance, and stylized gesture with contemporary instrumental music, opera, and art. Extending the tradition of surrealism , exploring the theatrical parameters of time and space, and usually created in collaboration with other artists, his theater art pieces frequently include visually dazzling tableaux and stylized presentations of text or song. Wilson's works include the 12-hour Life and Times of Joseph Stalin (1973); the five-hour Einstein on the Beach (1976, rev. 1984), a collaboration with Philip Glass and his best-known work; the day-long Civil Wars (1984), with Glass, David Byrne, and others; 1990s operatic extravaganzas (again with Glass), including White Raven and The Palace of the Arabian Nights ; The Days Before: Death, …
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Full text Article Wilson, Robert (1941– )

From The Oxford Companion to Theatre and Performance
American director, designer, playwright, performer, and visual artist, one of the most influential contemporary theatre artists. Born in Waco, Texas, in New York he became interested in choreographers *Cunningham , *Balanchine , and *Graham , and in 1968 set up an experimental theatre, the Byrd…
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Full text Article Müller, Heiner

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Full text Article Wilson, Robert

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
1941–, dramatist, director, and designer, b. Waco, Tex. He began his arts career as a painter. A leading figure in postmodern theater since 1963, when he arrived in New York City, he has created lengthy, often controversial multimedia events that combine drama, dance, and stylized gesture with…
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Full text Article Wilson, Robert

From A Dictionary of the Avant-Gardes
(4 October 1941) As an American theatrical artist trained in visual art, Wilson knew from the beginning that his theater would emphasize striking images and then peculiar movements over scripts. His early PERFORMANCE also revealed his predisposition toward thinking big – using larger theaters, more…
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Full text Article Wilson, Robert

From Chambers Biographical Dictionary
1941- ♦ US epic theatre-maker, director and designer He was born in Waco, Texas, and trained as a painter in Texas, Paris and New York, developing a sense of visual impact that became evident in his subsequent career as the USA's most flamboyant post-modern creator of theatrical spectacle. In…
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Full text Article Louis Brandeis (1856–1941)

From The 100 Greatest Americans of the 20th Century: A Social Justice Hall of Fame
Louis Brandeis (1856–1941)
C redit : Associated Press Louis Brandeis was a crusading progressive lawyer and US Supreme Court justice. Appointed to the Supreme Court by Woodrow Wilson in 1916, he served until 1939. As a "people’s lawyer" in Boston, he fought railroad monopolies, defended workplace and labor laws, and helped…
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Full text Article English, George Washington (1868–1941)

From Political Corruption in America: An Encyclopedia of Scandals, Power & Greed
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District judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Illinois, impeached by the House of Representatives in 1925 on five articles, including charges of “abus[ing] his office through tyranny and oppression, thereby bringing the administration of justice in his court into disrepute,” …
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Introduction Edith Bolling Galt Wilson was unique among first ladies. She was one of only three women to marry an American president while he was in office—and the only one in the twentieth century. Moreover, she was only the second first lady to marry a president whose first wife had been a first…
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Full text Article Oppenheimer, J. Robert

From American Biographies: American Social Leaders and Activists
Robert Oppenheimer was the leading scientist on...
(b. 1904–d. 1967) physicist, Atomic Energy Commission consultant, Manhattan Project leader A physicist best known as the inventor of the atomic bomb, Julius Robert Oppenheimer also warned against an arms race with the Soviet Union and the development in America of a garrison state. He was born on…
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Full text Article Dicke, Robert Henry (1916-1997)

From The Hutchinson Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Place: United States of America Subject : biography, astronomy US physicist who carried out considerable research into the rates of stellar and galactic evolution. Much of his work was innovatory and some remains controversial. Born in St Louis, Missouri, on 6 May 1916, Dicke completed his education…
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