- In Country (novel by Mason)
Bobbie Ann Mason: In Country (1985; film 1989), her first novel, is also steeped in mass culture, which led one critic to speak of Mason’s “Shopping Mall Realism.” Many critics praised her realistic regional dialogue, although some compared the novel unfavourably with her shorter works. In 1988 Mason…
- In Cuba (work by Cardenal)
Ernesto Cardenal: Solentiname, visit to Cuba, and second conversion: …essays, and En Cuba (1972; In Cuba), recollections of his visit there in 1970, constitute his prose work. Volumes of his poetry have been translated into all the major European languages.
- In Da Club (song by 50 Cent)
50 Cent: Superstardom with Get Rich or Die Tryin’: …biggest of which was “In Da Club,” a dance song that topped the Billboard Hot 100 for nine weeks. Get Rich or Die Tryin’ earned 50 Cent five Grammy Award nominations, including best new artist and best rap album.
- In Dahomey (musical play)
Bert Williams: …cast of only Black performers, In Dahomey was a Broadway success and in London the following year played a command performance at Buckingham Palace.
- In Darkest Africa (work by Stanley)
Henry Morton Stanley: Relief of Emin Paşa: In Darkest Africa (1890) is Stanley’s own account of his last adventure on the African continent. He received a Special Gold Medal from the RGS.
- In Darkest England, and the Way Out (work by Booth)
William Booth: In 1890 General Booth published In Darkest England, and the Way Out, in which he had the assistance of William Thomas Stead. He proposed to remedy pauperism and vice by means of: homes for the homeless; training centres to prepare emigrants for oversea colonies; rescue homes for fallen women; homes…
- In der Sache J. Robert Oppenheimer (work by Kipphardt)
Theatre of Fact: Robert Oppenheimer (1964; In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer) re-created the American inquiry into Oppenheimer’s loyalty because of his opposition to the development of the hydrogen bomb.
- In der Strafkolonie (novella by Kafka)
In the Penal Colony, novella by Franz Kafka, written in 1914 and published in German as In der Strafkolonie in 1919. An allegorical fantasy about law and punishment, it was also viewed as an existential comment on human torment and on strict devotion to an ambiguous task. The tale is
- In Dreams (song by Orbison)
Roy Orbison: …use of his song “In Dreams” in the film Blue Velvet. He became a member of the Traveling Wilburys, which boasted a lineup of Orbison, George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, and Jeff Lynne, and their debut album in 1988 landed Orbison in the top ten for the first…
- In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (work by Schwartz)
Delmore Schwartz: His first book, In Dreams Begin Responsibilities (1939), which brought him immediate fame, included the short story of the title and a group of poems remarkable for their lyric beauty and imaginative power. His subsequent publications included Shenandoah (1941), a verse play; Genesis, Book I (1943), a long…
- In dubio pro re (law)
Salem witch trials: Aftermath and legacy: …cross-examine one’s accuser, and the presumption of innocence rather than of guilt. The Salem trials and the witch hunt as metaphors for the persecution of minority groups remained powerful symbols into the 20th and 21st centuries, owing in no small measure to playwright Arthur Miller’s use in The Crucible (1953)…
- In Dubious Battle (film by Franco [2016])
James Franco: Other work: …2016 he directed the drama In Dubious Battle, which was based on a John Steinbeck novel (1936) about striking farmworkers. The following year he directed and starred in The Disaster Artist, which recounted the filming of The Room (2003), a notoriously bad movie that became a cult favourite. For his…
- In Dubious Battle (novel by Steinbeck)
American literature: Hemingway, Faulkner, and Steinbeck: …written but ambiguous strike novel In Dubious Battle (1936) and his flawed masterpiece, The Grapes of Wrath (1939). The latter, a protest novel punctuated by prose-poem interludes, tells the story of the migration of the Joads, an Oklahoma Dust Bowl family, to California. During their almost biblical journey, they learn…
- In ecclesiis (work by Gabrieli)
Giovanni Gabrieli: …motets, his masterpiece is perhaps In ecclesiis, for four soloists, four-part choir, violin, three cornets, two trombones, and organ, these forces pitted against one another in an endless variety of combinations.
- In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden (film by Fassbinder [1978])
Rainer Werner Fassbinder: …Jahr mit 13 Monden (1979; In a Year of 13 Moons), a political allegory concerning a transgender woman who confronts her past decisions. Fassbinder’s great trilogy—Die Ehe der Maria Braun (1979; The Marriage of Maria Braun), an ironic portrait of a marriage that reflects German history from World War II…
- In einer dunklen Nacht ging ich aus meinem stillen Haus (novel by Handke)
Peter Handke: Novels and other works: …aus meinem stillen Haus (1997; On a Dark Night I Left My Silent House) follows the life-changing journey of a man made mute by injury. Der Bildverlust; oder, durch die Sierra de Gredos (2002; Crossing the Sierra de Gredos) details the pilgrimage and interior life of a woman crossing an…
- Īn Fīlm Nīst (film by Panahi [2011])
Jafar Panahi: Taxi, It Was Just an Accident, and legal issues: …directed Īn Fīlm Nīst (2011; This Is Not a Film), which depicts a day in Panahi’s life while he awaited the result of his appeal, denied in October 2011. The film was made clandestinely in Panahi’s Tehrān apartment and smuggled out of Iran inside a USB stick hidden in a…
- In Flanders Fields (poem by McCrae)
In Flanders Fields, one of history’s most famous wartime poems, written in 1915 during the First World War by Canadian officer and surgeon John McCrae. It helped popularize the red poppy as a symbol of remembrance. When he volunteered at age 41 for service in the First World War, McCrae wrote to a
- In Flanders Fields and Other Poems (work by McCrae)
John McCrae: A book of his poems, In Flanders Fields and Other Poems, was published in 1919.
- In God we trust (official motto of the United States)
In God we trust, official motto of the United States, adopted in 1956, and placed on all U.S. currency beginning in 1957. The phrase replaced “E pluribus unum” (Latin: “Out of many, one”), which had been the country’s unofficial motto since the 1780s. The phrase has its origin story in the American
- In God’s Land (work by Nexø)
Martin Andersen Nexø: …Midt i en Jærntid (1929; In God’s Land), is critical of wealthy farmers during the period of agricultural inflation brought about by World War I. Nexø’s collected short fiction appeared under the title of Muldskud, 3 vol. (1922–26; “From the Soil”).
- In Good Company: The Fast Track from the Corporate World to Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience (work by Martin)
James Martin: Editor at America and first books: …Jesuit novice in the book In Good Company: The Fast Track from the Corporate World to Poverty, Chastity, and Obedience. His work with first responders after the September 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center is the topic of Searching for God at Ground Zero (2002). In My Life…
- in gross (property law)
servitude: …of land are called “in gross.” Benefits acquired by governmental bodies, conservation and preservation organizations, pipeline owners, railroads, and utility companies are often in gross. Easement burdens are never in gross, but covenants to supply water, utilities, or other services to a parcel of land frequently involve a burden…
- In Harm’s Way (film by Preminger [1965])
In Harm’s Way, American war film, released in 1965, that centres on the Pearl Harbor attack and its aftermath. The cast of this World War II epic included John Wayne and Kirk Douglas. The film opens with the Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in 1941 and then traces its effect
- In Her Own Image (poetry by Boland)
Eavan Boland: …life and political tension, and In Her Own Image (1980), featuring terse poetic narratives about women. The poems of Night Feed (1982) link her spiritual maturation to her new state of motherhood. The Journey (1983), which was expanded as The Journey and Other Poems (1987), infuses mythology into her discussion…
- In Her Shoes (film by Hanson [2005])
Toni Collette: …notices for the ostensibly slight In Her Shoes (2005), in which she was featured as the dowdy sister to Cameron Diaz’s promiscuous wastrel. Her role in the ensemble comedy Little Miss Sunshine (2006), in which she played the matriarch of a dysfunctional clan attempting to shepherd its youngest member to…
- In His Steps (novel by Sheldon)
Charles Monroe Sheldon: The most successful series, In His Steps, concerned the inhabitants of a town who pledged themselves to live for a year as Jesus would live. First published serially in 1896 and in book form in 1897, In His Steps was for 60 years the largest-selling book in the United…
- In Jackson Heights (film by Wiseman [2015])
Frederick Wiseman: Documentaries: Wiseman subsequently made In Jackson Heights (2015), about a diverse community in Queens, New York, and then explored the New York Public Library in Ex Libris (2017). In Monrovia, Indiana (2018), Wiseman chronicled a small Midwestern town. His later works include City Hall (2020), which examines Boston’s local…
- in jure cessio (Roman law)
Roman law: The law of property and possession: In jure cessio was a conveyance in the form of a lawsuit. The transferee claimed before the magistrate that the thing was his, and the transferor, who was the defendant, admitted the claim. The magistrate then adjudged the thing to the transferee. (The sham-lawsuit theory,…
- In laudem Justini (poem by Corippus)
Flavius Cresconius Corippus: In laudem Justini, the four books of which eulogize Justinian I’s successor Justin II, was written after the arrival of Corippus in Constantinople, when he found himself in straits. This rhetorical poem contains elaborate description and excessive detail but is interesting for the account it…
- In Living Color (American television series)
The groundbreaking American satirical sketch comedy television series In Living Color aired on the Fox Broadcasting Company network from 1990 to 1994. Created by writer, producer, actor, and director Keenen Ivory Wayans, the series gave voice to the African American experience in a way that was
- in loco parentis (legal doctrine)
teaching: The doctrine of in loco parentis: When minor children are entrusted by parents to a school, the parents delegate to the school certain responsibilities for their children, and the school has certain liabilities. In effect, the school and the teachers take some of the responsibility and some of…
- In Love and War (film by Attenborough [1996])
Sandra Bullock: Rise to stardom: …best-selling author John Grisham; and In Love and War (1996), a drama about Ernest Hemingway’s wartime romance that inspired his novel A Farewell to Arms (1929).
- In Love with Daylight: A Memoir of Recovery (memoir by Sheed)
Wilfrid Sheed: In 1995 Sheed published In Love with Daylight: A Memoir of Recovery, about his battle with alcoholism and cancer of the tongue and his disappointment with the professionals who treated him. His last work, the best-selling The House That George Built: With a Little Help from Irving Cole and…
- In Mad Love and War (poem by Harjo)
Joy Harjo: Poetry, tenure as U.S. poet laureate, and other writing: …with photographs by Stephen Strom; In Mad Love and War (1990), the winner of a 1991 American Book Award; Fishing (1992); A Map to the Next World: Poetry and Tales (2000); and How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems (2002). In Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (2015), Harjo chronicles…
- in medias res (literature)
in medias res, the practice of beginning an epic or other narrative by plunging into a crucial situation that is part of a related chain of events; the situation is an extension of previous events and will be developed in later action. The narrative then goes directly forward, and exposition of
- In Memoriam (poem by Tennyson)
In Memoriam, poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, written between the years 1833 and 1850 and published anonymously in 1850. Consisting of 131 sections, a prologue, and an epilogue, this chiefly elegiac work examines the different stages of Tennyson’s period of mourning over the death of his close friend
- In Memoriam A.H.H. (poem by Tennyson)
In Memoriam, poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, written between the years 1833 and 1850 and published anonymously in 1850. Consisting of 131 sections, a prologue, and an epilogue, this chiefly elegiac work examines the different stages of Tennyson’s period of mourning over the death of his close friend
- In Memoriam James Joyce (poetry by MacDiarmid)
English literature: Celtic Modernism: Yeats, Joyce, Jones, and MacDiarmid: …to establish, as in his In Memoriam James Joyce (1955), the truly cosmopolitan nature of Celtic consciousness and achievement. MacDiarmid’s masterpiece in the vernacular, A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle (1926), helped to inspire the Scottish renaissance of the 1920s and ’30s.
- In Memoriam stanza (prosody)
In Memoriam stanza, a quatrain in iambic tetrameter with a rhyme scheme of abba. The form was named for the pattern used by Alfred, Lord Tennyson in his poem In Memoriam, which, following an 11-stanza introduction,
- ‘In Memoriam’ of Italy: A Century of Sonnets from the Poems of Vittoria Colonna, The (work by Colonna)
Vittoria Colonna: …that have been collected as Rime spirituali (1882) and in other volumes. She also wrote much religious poetry.
- In morte di Ugo Bassville (work by Monti)
Vincenzo Monti: …morte di Ugo Bassville (1793; The Penance of Hugo), usually known as Bassvilliana, also praises the pope and warns of the dangers of the French Revolution. Then Napoleon invaded Italy, and his successes converted Monti, who moved to Milan, turned on the papacy, sang the praises of the conqueror, and…
- In My Country (film by Boorman [2004])
John Boorman: Later career and honors: Boorman’s later credits include In My Country (2004), a well-intentioned drama about the consequences of apartheid in South Africa, and The Tiger’s Tail (2006), with Gleeson well cast as a driven Irish businessman whose ruthless real-estate dealings begin to take a toll on his sanity. The drama Queen &…
- In My Father’s Court (work by Singer)
Isaac Bashevis Singer: In 1966 he published In My Father’s Court, based on the Yiddish Mayn tatns besdn shtub (1956), an autobiographical account of his childhood in Warsaw. This work received special praise from the Swedish Academy when Singer was awarded the Nobel Prize. More Stories from My Father’s Court, published posthumously…
- In My Father’s Den (novel by Gee)
Maurice Gee: Early works and Plumb trilogy: The novel In My Father’s Den (1972; film 2004) explores New Zealand social mores by way of the childhood reminisces of a teacher in the wake of the murder of one of his students.
- In My Father’s Den (film by McGann [2004])
Maurice Gee: Early works and Plumb trilogy: …In My Father’s Den (1972; film 2004) explores New Zealand social mores by way of the childhood reminisces of a teacher in the wake of the murder of one of his students.
- In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (work by Appiah)
Kwame Anthony Appiah: …political and cultural issues in In My Father’s House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (1992), a philosophical exploration of the nature of African identity in the West and in an increasingly global culture. In Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race (1996; with Amy Guttman), Appiah argued that the…
- In My Mind (album by Williams)
Pharrell Williams: N.E.R.D., early solo work, and Despicable Me: …” and the 2006 album In My Mind. He branched out into soundtrack composition as well, scoring the animated film Despicable Me (2010). Noted composer Hans Zimmer produced the score, and the two collaborated again on the music that was played at the 2012 Academy Awards ceremony.
- In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir (memoir by Dick and Liz Cheney)
Dick Cheney: Later life: His autobiography, In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir (cowritten with his daughter Liz Cheney), was published in 2011. Cheney also wrote, with his heart surgeon, Heart: An American Medical Odyssey (2013) and, with Liz Cheney, Exceptional: Why the World Needs a Powerful America (2015).
- In My Wildest Dreams (album by Chesney)
Kenny Chesney: …he recorded his debut album In My Wildest Dreams (1994). Shortly thereafter, Capricorn dissolved its country-music division, and Chesney, who had already gained a notable following as both a performer and a songwriter, was quickly picked up by the BNA record label. His first album for that company, All I…
- In Name Only (film by Cromwell [1939])
Carole Lombard: …the period included the melodrama In Name Only (1939), in which she appeared opposite Cary Grant; the comedy-drama Made for Each Other (1939), costarring James Stewart; and Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941), in which Lombard’s performance highlighted director Alfred Hitchcock’s only attempt at straightforward comedy.
- In New England Winter (play by Bullins)
Ed Bullins: …are The Corner (produced 1968), In New England Winter (produced 1969), The Duplex (produced 1970), The Fabulous Miss Marie (produced 1971), Home Boy (produced 1976), and Daddy (produced 1977). In 1975 he received critical acclaim for The Taking of Miss Janie, a play about the failed alliance of an
- In nomine (religious music)
In nomine, style of 16th- and 17th-century English instrumental ensemble music based on the plainsong melody of the antiphon (a verse originally sung before and after a psalm in the Roman Catholic liturgy) “Gloria tibi Trinitas” (“Glory to Thee, O Trinity”) from the Vesper service for Trinity
- In nomine Domini (work by Taverner)
John Taverner: …musical setting of the words In nomine Domini from the Benedictus of his mass Gloria tibi Trinitas became the prototype for a large number of instrumental compositions known as In nomines, or Gloria tibi Trinitas.
- In Northern Mists (work by Nansen)
Fridtjof Nansen: Scientific work: (1911; In Northern Mists) gave a critical review of the exploration of the northern regions from early times up to the beginning of the 16th century.
- In Novum Testamentum ex diversorum utriusque linguae codicum collatione adnotationes (work by Valla)
Lorenzo Valla: …composed his last major work, In Novum Testamentum ex diversorum utriusque linguae codicum collatione adnotationes (“Annotations on the New Testament Collected from Various Codices in Each Language”), with the encouragement and advice of two famous scholars, the cardinals Bessarion and Nicholas of Cusa. The Adnotationes, not printed until 1505, applied…
- In Nyu York (work by Halpern)
Yiddish literature: Writers in New York: Among his major publications was In Nyu York (1919; “In New York”), from which selections appeared in a bilingual English-Yiddish edition with the same title (1982). His other important works were Di goldene pave (1924; “The Golden Peacock”) and two posthumously published volumes entitled simply Moyshe Leyb Halpern. Although Halpern…
- In Old Arizona (film by Cummings [1929])
Irving Cummings: … as director of the talkie In Old Arizona, an adventure starring Warner Baxter as the Cisco Kid. For his work, Cummings earned an unofficial Academy Award nomination. In 1931 he reteamed with Baxter on The Cisco Kid. Other notable films from this period include the crime dramas Man Against Woman…
- In Old Chicago (film by King [1937])
Henry King: Films of the 1930s: In Old Chicago (1937) was a fine period effort set shortly before the city’s devastating 1871 fire; the cast included Power, Ameche, and Alice Faye. The drama earned six Academy Award nominations, including a nod for best picture. King next directed the musical Alexander’s Ragtime…
- In Old Kentucky (film by Marshall [1935])
George Marshall: Feature films: Rogers returned for In Old Kentucky (1935), which was his last film released; he died in a plane crash several months before it premiered.
- In Old Santa Fe (film by Howard [1934])
Gene Autry: …in the Ken Maynard vehicle In Old Santa Fe (1934), and it launched his career as a cowboy actor. His first starring role was in the peculiar sci-fi western The Phantom Empire (1935), but the more conventional Tumbling Tumbleweeds (1935) was the first of his dozens of cowboy movies, ending…
- In Ole Virginia, Marse Chan, and Other Stories (work by Page)
Thomas Nelson Page: …probably Page’s most characteristic book, In Ole Virginia, Marse Chan, and Other Stories (1887), reflecting the glamorous life of the old antebellum regime and the tumults of the Civil War. His essays and social studies, including Social Life in Old Virginia (1897) and The Old Dominion—Her Making and Her Manners…
- In on the Kill Taker (album by Fugazi)
Fugazi: … Steady Diet of Nothing (1991), In on the Kill Taker (1992), Red Medicine (1995), and End Hits (1998), Fugazi retained its churning rhythms and raw emotion, but its song structures became more varied and its lyrics more oblique and less overtly political (the band had sometimes been criticized for being…
- In One Person (novel by Irving)
John Irving: Later novels and other books: In One Person (2012) explores sexual identity, while Avenue of Mysteries (2015) is about a Mexican writer’s remembrance of his unusual past. In 2022 Irving published his 15th novel, The Last Chairlift. A sprawling work about families, it centers on a writer who has an…
- In Other Words (work by Lahiri)
Jhumpa Lahiri: Works in Italian and translations: …Italian, In altre parole (In Other Words), a meditation on her immersion in another culture and language. That same year she gave a speech about the art of book jackets at a literary festival in Florence; it was later published as The Clothing of Books (2016; Il vestito dei…
- In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination (work by Atwood)
Margaret Atwood: Other fiction and nonfiction works: …political or an economic one; In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination (2011), in which she illuminates her relationship to science fiction; and Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021 (2022), a collection of diverse writings as well as several speeches.
- In Our Time (short stories by Hemingway)
Nick Adams: Adams first appears in In Our Time (1925), a collection of 15 stories, including coming-of-age experiences in the woods of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The character also appears, at various stages of his life, in the short-story collection Men Without Women (1927). Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man…
- In Paradise (novel by Matthiessen)
Peter Matthiessen: In Paradise (2014) details the reflections of a Holocaust scholar on a meditative retreat at Auschwitz.
- In Parenthesis (novel by Jones)
David Jones: …gave him the theme of In Parenthesis (1937), an epic novel. Also important is his religious poem The Anathemata (1952).
- in pectore (Roman Catholicism)
cardinal: Consistories and incardination: Sometimes the pope appoints cardinals in pectore (Latin: “in the breast”), without declaring their names; only when the name of a cardinal in pectore is revealed does he assume the rights and duties of the office.
- in personam (law)
judgment: A judgment generally operates to settle finally and authoritatively matters in dispute before a court. Judgments may be classified as in personam, in rem, or quasi in rem. An in personam, or personal, judgment, the type most commonly rendered by courts, imposes a personal liability or…
- In Persuasion Nation (short stories by Saunders)
George Saunders: …short-story collections followed: Pastoralia (2000), In Persuasion Nation (2006), and Tenth of December (2013). He also wrote the children’s book The Very Persistent Gappers of Frip, illustrated by Lane Smith, which was published in 2000. His novella The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil was released in 2005. The Braindead…
- In Phantas Schloss (work by Morgenstern)
Christian Morgenstern: …influence of Friedrich Nietzsche, includes In Phantas Schloss (1895; “In Phanta’s Palace”), in which cosmic, mythological, and philosophical concepts are playfully combined; Ich und die Welt (1898; “I and the World”); Ein Sommer (1900; “One Summer”), which was written in Norway and celebrates physical beauty; and Einkehr (1910; “Introspection”) and…
- In Place of Strife: A Policy for Industrial Relations (document)
white paper: …A later British white paper, In Place of Strife: A Policy for Industrial Relations, issued in 1969, sought to limit the powers of the country’s Trades Union Congress by enabling the government to enforce settlements of interunion disputes, but its specific legislative recommendations were never enacted.
- In Praise of Folly (work by Erasmus)
Erasmus: The wandering scholar: The celebrated Moriae encomium, or Praise of Folly, conceived as Erasmus crossed the Alps on his way back to England and written at Thomas More’s house, expresses a very different mood. For the first time the earnest scholar saw his own efforts along with everyone else’s as bathed in a…
- In Praise of Love (film by Godard [2001])
Jean-Luc Godard: Later work and awards of Jean-Luc Godard: Éloge de l’amour (2001; In Praise of Love), a narrative film that examined the nature of love and a life in film, stirred controversy over its harsh criticism of Hollywood filmmaking. Later movies included Notre musique (2004; “Our Music”), a meditation on war; the experimental collage Film socialisme (2010;…
- In Praise of the New Knighthood (work by Bernard of Clairvaux)
Templar: Bernard also wrote In Praise of the New Knighthood (c. 1136), which defended the order against its critics and contributed to its growth. In 1139 Pope Innocent II issued a bull that granted the order special privileges: the Templars were allowed to build their own oratories and were…
- In Quintum Novembris (poem by Milton)
John Milton: Early translations and poems of John Milton: …is “In Quintum Novembris” (“On the Fifth of November”), which Milton composed in 1626 at Cambridge. The poem celebrates the anniversary of the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605, when Guy Fawkes was discovered preparing to detonate explosives at the opening of Parliament, an event in which King James I…
- In Rainbows (album by Radiohead)
Radiohead: …initially released its seventh album, In Rainbows (2007), via Internet download. An estimated 1.2 million fans downloaded the album within its first week of availability, paying any price they wished to do so. The novel distribution method generated headlines, but it was the album’s content—a collection of 10 tracks that…
- In re Debs (United States legal ruling [1895])
In re Debs, legal case in which the U.S. Supreme Court, on May 27, 1895, unanimously (9–0) upheld the government’s use of the injunction against a labour strike, specifically the Pullman Strike (May 11–July 20, 1894). After the Pullman Palace Car Company, led by George M. Pullman, cut the wages of
- In re Kemmler (legal ruling)
Eighth Amendment: ” Similarly, in In re Kemmler (1890), when the electric chair was introduced as a humane method of execution, the Supreme Court held it constitutional because death was “instantaneous” and “painless,” unlike the lingering deaths that resulted from “burning at the stake, crucifixion, breaking on the wheel, or…
- In re Neagle (legal ruling)
Lucius Q.C. Lamar: …Court was a dissent in In re Neagle (1890), which expressed his conviction that the authority of the federal executive is limited to the powers specifically granted by the Constitution and statutes.
- In re Territo (United States law case [1946])
In re Territo, legal case in which the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled on June 8, 1946, that American citizens captured as prisoners of war by U.S. armed forces may be detained without formal criminal charges. In the early 21st century the case was cited by the U.S. government to
- In re Yamashita (legal opinion by Rutledge)
Wiley B. Rutledge, Jr.: …Japanese general Yamashita Tomoyuki (In re Yamashita, 1946) for war crimes. Rutledge objected to the use of hearsay evidence in the trial and won wide public approval for his defense of the right of even a defeated enemy to a fair trial.
- In reito sutairu (novel by Ōe Kenzaburō)
Ōe Kenzaburō: Ōe later published In reito sutairu (2013; “In Late Style”).
- in rem (law)
conflict of laws: Differences between civil-law and common-law countries in the absence of a choice by the parties: …special rules governing suits for judgments in rem (Latin: “with respect to the thing”), which concern proprietary legal rights. Unlike actions for judgments in personam (Latin: “with respect to the person”), which concern personal legal rights and may seek money damages or injunctions to do or not to do an…
- In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam (work by McNamara)
Robert S. McNamara: …1995 McNamara published a memoir, In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam, in which he describes the anticommunist political climate of the era, mistaken assumptions of foreign policy, and misjudgments on the part of the military that combined to create the Vietnam debacle. In Errol Morris’s documentary film The…
- In Rough Country (work by Oates)
Joyce Carol Oates: Mysteries and memoirs: …Where I’m Going (1999) and In Rough Country (2010). In 2011 Oates published the memoir A Widow’s Story, in which she mourned her husband’s death. The Lost Landscape: A Writer’s Coming of Age (2015) is a memoir elliptically documenting her childhood.
- In Ruad Ro-fhessa (Celtic deity)
Dagda, in Celtic religion, one of the leaders of a mythological Irish people, the Tuatha Dé Danann (“People of the Goddess Danu”). The Dagda was credited with many powers and possessed a caldron that was never empty, fruit trees that were never barren, and two pigs—one live and the other
- In search of alpha: Hard to prove; hard to sustain
If you’re looking to invest in an actively managed fund, you probably have one goal in mind: to beat the market. You’re looking for added value above and beyond what a passive index fund can deliver. This added value comes in the form of a fund manager’s superior skill (or their perceived skill,
- In Search of Bisco (work by Caldwell)
Erskine Caldwell: …Call It Experience (1951); and In Search of Bisco (1965).
- In Search of Famine (film by Sen [1980])
Mrinal Sen: The Calcutta trilogy and other films: Akaler Sandhane (In Search of Famine, 1980), the story of a film crew documenting the 1943 Bengal famine, won the Silver Bear (Special Jury Prize) at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1981.
- In Search of Lost Time (novel by Proust)
In Search of Lost Time, novel in seven parts by French author Marcel Proust, published in French as À la recherche du temps perdu from 1913 to 1927. The novel is the story of Proust’s own life, told as an allegorical search for truth. It is the major work of French fiction of the early 20th
- In Search of Love and Beauty (novel by Jhabvala)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala: …Indian subject matter occurred in In Search of Love and Beauty (1983), which portrays Austrian and German refugees searching for spiritual truths in New York. Poet and Dancer (1993) is the story of a destructive friendship between two women living in New York City.
- In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens (essays by Walker)
Alice Walker: Later work and controversies: Walker’s essays were compiled in In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983), Sent by Earth: A Message from the Grandmother Spirit After the Bombing of the World Trade Center and Pentagon (2001), We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: Inner Light in a Time of Darkness…
- In Search of the Castaways (film by Stevenson [1962])
Robert Stevenson: Films for Disney: In Search of the Castaways, an adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, was one of 1962’s top-grossing films. Also successful was The Misadventures of Merlin Jones (1964), with Tommy Kirk as a brilliant teenaged inventor; it spawned a sequel, The Monkey’s Uncle (1965), which Stevenson…
- In Search of the Indo-Europeans (work by Mallory)
Indo-European languages: The divergence of Indo-European languages: Mallory (In Search of the Indo-Europeans [1989]) in locating the speakers of Proto-Indo-European among the populations of this region but not to attempt a more precise identification until further evidence is available. A radically different theory, according to which the Indo-European spread began in Asia Minor…
- In Search of the Lost Chord (album by the Moody Blues)
the Moody Blues: ” On In Search of the Lost Chord (1968) they traded the orchestra for the Mellotron, an electro-mechanical keyboard instrument that reproduces recorded sounds (often orchestral) using magnetic tape.
- In Search of… (album by N.E.R.D.)
Pharrell Williams: N.E.R.D., early solo work, and Despicable Me: …rap, pop, and rock music: In Search of… (2002), Fly or Die (2004), Seeing Sounds (2008), and Nothing (2010). Williams also struck out on his own with the 2003 single “Frontin’ ” and the 2006 album In My Mind. He branched out into soundtrack composition as well, scoring the animated…
- In Sicily (work by Vittorini)
Elio Vittorini: , Conversation in Sicily; U.S. title In Sicily), the clearest expression of his anti-fascist feelings. The action of the book is less important than the emotional agony of its hero, brought on by his constant consciousness of fascism, war, and the plight of his brothers.