- Lienz (Austria)
Lienz, town, southern Austria, on the Drava (Drau) and Isel rivers at the northern end of the rugged Lienzer Dolomiten. The ruined Aguntum, which is situated immediately to the east, was the site of an Illyrian settlement (1100–500 bc) and subsequently of a Roman town. Lienz was chartered in 1252.
- Liepa, Maris-Rudolf Eduardovich (Soviet dancer)
Maris-Rudolf Eduardovich Liepa was a Soviet ballet dancer who performed with the Bolshoi Ballet for more than 20 years. Liepa studied in Riga and at the Bolshoi ballet school (in 1961 renamed the Moscow Academic Choreographic School). He performed with the Riga Ballet (1955–56) and the Stanislavsky
- Liepāja (Latvia)
Liepāja, city and port, Latvia, on the west (Baltic Sea) coast at the northern end of Lake Liepāja. First recorded in 1253, when it was a small Kurish settlement, Liepāja was the site of a fortress built by the knights of the Teutonic Order in 1263. It was created a town in 1625, and in 1697–1703 a
- Lier (Belgium)
Lier, commune, Flanders Region, northern Belgium, located at the junction of the Great and Little Nete rivers, southeast of Antwerp. Probably settled in the 8th century, it developed around the Chapel of St. Peter (1225) on the site of an earlier wooden chapel. An important textile centre by the
- Lierre (Belgium)
Lier, commune, Flanders Region, northern Belgium, located at the junction of the Great and Little Nete rivers, southeast of Antwerp. Probably settled in the 8th century, it developed around the Chapel of St. Peter (1225) on the site of an earlier wooden chapel. An important textile centre by the
- Lies (poetry by Williams)
C.K. Williams: …critical acclaim with the collection Lies (1969), which contains lyrical yet vituperative poems railing against human callousness and dishonesty. I Am the Bitter Name (1972) is an overtly political collection that addresses issues surrounding the Vietnam War, including the American military-industrial complex. His mature style first appeared in With Ignorance…
- Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity, The (work by Appiah)
Kwame Anthony Appiah: …Moral Revolutions Happen (2010), and The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity (2018). He also wrote the novels Avenging Angel (1991), Nobody Likes Letitia (1994), and Another Death in Venice (1995).
- Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me (book by Handler)
Chelsea Handler: Books and other work: …Chelsea Bang Bang (2010) and Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me (2011), a collection of anecdotes written by her friends and family; both books also hit number one. Handler related her travel mishaps in Uganda Be Kidding Me (2014), also an immediate best seller. Are You There, Chelsea?, an NBC…
- Liesberg Bridge (bridge, Liesberg, Switzerland)
bridge: Maillart’s innovations: …of his last bridges—at Vessy, Liesberg, and Lachen—illustrate his mature vision for the possibilities of structural art. Over the Arve River at Vessy in 1935, Maillart designed a three-hinged, hollow-box arch in which the thin cross-walls taper at mid-height, forming an X shape. This striking design, giving life to the…
- Liesegang ring (chemistry)
Liesegang ring, in physical chemistry, any of a series of usually concentric bands of a precipitate (an insoluble substance formed from a solution) appearing in gels (coagulated colloid solutions). The bands strikingly resemble those occurring in many minerals, such as agate, and are believed to
- Liesegang, Raphael Eduard (German chemist)
Liesegang ring: …discoverer, the 20th-century German chemist Raphael Eduard Liesegang.
- Liestal (Switzerland)
Liestal, capital (since 1833) of the Halbkanton (demicanton) of Basel-Landschaft, northern Switzerland. It lies along the Ergolz River, southeast of Basel. First mentioned as a village in 1189, it passed to the bishop of Basel in 1305 and to the city of Basel in 1400. Notable landmarks are the
- Liesveldt, Jacob van (Dutch publisher)
biblical literature: The Christian canon: …was a Dutch version by Jacob van Liesveldt (Antwerp, 1526). Martin Luther’s German edition of 1534 did the same thing and entitled them “Apocrypha” for the first time, noting that, while they were not in equal esteem with sacred Scriptures, they were edifying.
- Lietuviu Kalba
Lithuanian language, East Baltic language most closely related to Latvian; it is spoken primarily in Lithuania, where it has been the official language since 1918. It is the most archaic Indo-European language still spoken. A Lithuanian literary language has been in existence since the 16th
- Lietuvių kalbos žodynas (work by Būga)
Kazimieras Būga: …began to prepare his ambitious Lietuvių kalbos žodynas (“Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language”), which was to be a comprehensive thesaurus that would include definitions, etymologies, histories of words, and notes on their geographic distribution. From 1922, however, he was burdened with teaching responsibilities at the newly founded University of Kaunas.…
- Lietuvos Demokratinė Darbo Partija (political party, Lithuania)
Lithuania: Independence restored: …Party, which renamed itself the Lithuanian Democratic Labour Party (LDLP), won 73 of 141 seats. Despite its victory, the LDLP did not seek to reverse policies. Instead, the government liberalized the economy, joined the Council of Europe, became an associate member of the Western European Union, and pursued membership in…
- Lietuvos Komunistu Partija (political party, Lithuania)
Lithuania: Political process: During the Soviet period the Lithuanian Communist Party (Lietuvos Komunistu Partija; LKP) was the country’s only political party. Its members and candidates for membership were supported by the activities of the Komsomol youth movement. In 1989, however, the legislature ended the Communist Party’s monopoly on power by legalizing other political…
- Lietuvos Respublika
Lithuania, country of northeastern Europe, the southernmost and largest of the three Baltic states. Lithuania was a powerful empire that dominated much of eastern Europe in the 14th–16th centuries before becoming part of the Polish-Lithuanian confederation for the next two centuries. Aside from a
- Lietz, Hermann (German educational reformer)
Hermann Lietz was a German educational reformer. In 1898 he taught at the progressive Abbotsholme school for boys, founded in Derbyshire, Eng., in 1889 by Cecil Reddie. Lietz was impressed by the Abbotsholme system of education, which combined comprehensive individual instruction with physical
- Lietzmann, Hans (German scholar)
Hans Lietzmann was a German scholar and Lutheran church historian noted for his investigations of Christian origins. While a professor of classical philology and church history at the University of Jena (1905–24) and the University of Berlin (1924–42), Lietzmann began and directed the Handbuch zum
- lieutenant (military rank)
lieutenant, company grade officer, the lowest rank of commissioned officer in most armies of the world. The lieutenant normally commands a small tactical unit such as a platoon. In the British Army and in the United States Army, Air Force, and Marine Corps, a second lieutenant is the lowest ranking
- lieutenant (criminal)
Mafia: The 20th century and the Five Families: Below the underboss were the caporegime, or lieutenants, who, acting as buffers between the lower echelon workers and the don himself, protected him from a too-direct association with the organization’s illicit operations. The lieutenants supervised squads of “soldiers,” who often had charge of one of the family’s legal operations (e.g.,…
- lieutenant colonel (military rank)
military unit: …and is commanded by a lieutenant colonel. The battalion is the smallest unit to have a staff of officers (in charge of personnel, operations, intelligence, and logistics) to assist the commander. Several battalions form a brigade, which has 2,000 to 8,000 troops and is commanded by a brigadier general or…
- Lieutenant en Algérie (work by Servan-Schreiber)
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber: …book, Lieutenant en Algérie (1957; Lieutenant in Algeria), which exposed French atrocities in the Algerian War of Independence. The controversial book was later credited with helping turn French public opinion against the Algerian conflict. In Le Défi américain (1967; The American Challenge) he warned against Europe’s becoming merely an economic…
- lieutenant general (military rank)
military unit: …and is commanded by a lieutenant general. The army corps is the largest regular army formation, though in wartime two or more corps may be combined to form a field army (commanded by a general), and field armies in turn may be combined to form an army group.
- lieutenant general of police (French government official)
police: The French police under the monarchy: …XIV proclaimed the office of lieutenant of police (the title later was changed to lieutenant general of police). Nicolas de La Reynie, a magistrate, was the first person to hold the post, from 1667 to 1697. Like most government offices, the police lieutenancy had to be bought from the French…
- lieutenant governor (government official)
United States: State and local government: Most states have a lieutenant governor, who is often elected independently of the governor and is sometimes not a member of the governor’s party. Lieutenant governors generally serve as the presiding officer of the state Senate. Other elected officials commonly include a secretary of state, state treasurer, state auditor,…
- Lieutenant in Algeria (work by Servan-Schreiber)
Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber: …book, Lieutenant en Algérie (1957; Lieutenant in Algeria), which exposed French atrocities in the Algerian War of Independence. The controversial book was later credited with helping turn French public opinion against the Algerian conflict. In Le Défi américain (1967; The American Challenge) he warned against Europe’s becoming merely an economic…
- lieutenant of police (French government official)
police: The French police under the monarchy: …XIV proclaimed the office of lieutenant of police (the title later was changed to lieutenant general of police). Nicolas de La Reynie, a magistrate, was the first person to hold the post, from 1667 to 1697. Like most government offices, the police lieutenancy had to be bought from the French…
- Lieutenant, The (novel by Grenville)
Kate Grenville: Grenville’s next novel, The Lieutenant (2008), is set in 18th-century New South Wales and centres on a member of the British fleet. Sarah Thornhill (2011), a sequel to The Secret River, follows the youngest child of William. The fictional memoir A Room Made of Leaves (2020) chronicles the…
- Lievens, Jan (Dutch painter)
Jan Lievens was a versatile painter and printmaker whose style derived from both the Dutch and Flemish schools of Baroque art. A contemporary of Rembrandt, he was a pupil of Joris van Schooten (1616–18) and of Rembrandt’s teacher Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam (1618–20). After residing in Leiden for a
- Lieverszoon, Jan (Dutch painter)
Jan Lievens was a versatile painter and printmaker whose style derived from both the Dutch and Flemish schools of Baroque art. A contemporary of Rembrandt, he was a pupil of Joris van Schooten (1616–18) and of Rembrandt’s teacher Pieter Lastman in Amsterdam (1618–20). After residing in Leiden for a
- Liévin (France)
Liévin, town, Pas-de-Calais département, Hauts-de-France région, northern France, near the source of the Deûle River, southwest of Lille. Mentioned as Laid-win (Laivin) in 1104, it developed as a coal-mining centre of the Lens area. Many of the former miners’ houses have been restored, and lighter
- Liexuanzhuan (Chinese text)
Taoism: Lives of the Immortals: …Lives of the Immortals (Liexuanzhuan) of the early 2nd century ce. Such collections were a genre of the time. Brief sketches were provided for 72 figures: the same symbolic number as was found in contemporary collections of the “Lives” of the disciples of Confucius, eminent scholar-officials, and famous women.…
- Liezi (Daoist philosopher)
Liezi was one of the three primary philosophers who developed the basic tenets of Daoist philosophy and the presumed author of the Daoist work Liezi (also known as Chongxu zhide zhenjing [“True Classic of the Perfect Virtue of Simplicity and Emptiness”]). Many of the writings traditionally
- Liezi (Daoist literature)
Liezi: …author of the Daoist work Liezi (also known as Chongxu zhide zhenjing [“True Classic of the Perfect Virtue of Simplicity and Emptiness”]).
- LiF (chemical compound)
lithium: Chemical properties: Lithium fluoride (LiF) is used chiefly as a fluxing agent in enamels and glasses.
- LIF (biology)
stem cell: Mouse embryonic stem cells: …indefinitely in the presence of leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF), a glycoprotein cytokine. If cultured mouse embryonic stem cells are injected into an early mouse embryo at the blastocyst stage, they will become integrated into the embryo and produce cells that differentiate into most or all of the tissue types that…
- Lifan Yuan (Chinese government bureau)
Lifan Yuan, government bureau established in the 17th century by China’s Qing (Manchu) dynasty to handle relations with the peoples of Inner Asia. It signified the growing interest of China in Central Asia. The office appointed governors to supervise Chinese territory in Central Asia and Tibet,
- Lifaqane (African history)
Mfecane, series of Zulu and other Nguni wars and forced migrations of the second and third decades of the 19th century that changed the demographic, social, and political configuration of southern and central Africa and parts of eastern Africa. The Mfecane was set in motion by the rise of the Zulu
- Lifar, Serge (Ukrainian-French dancer and choreographer)
Serge Lifar was a Ukrainian-born French dancer, choreographer, and ballet master (1929–45, 1947–58) of the Paris Opéra Ballet who enriched its repertoire, reestablished its reputation as a leading ballet company, and enhanced the position of male dancers in a company long dominated by ballerinas.
- Life (work by Cavendish)
George Cavendish: …through a single work, his Life of Cardinal Wolsey. This work is a landmark in the development of English biography, an important document to the student of Tudor history, and a rare source of information on the character of the author himself. Cavendish applied to his subject methods of concrete…
- Life (film by Espinosa [2017])
Rebecca Ferguson: Stardom: The White Queen and the Mission: Impossible films: Her credits from 2017 include Life, a sci-fi thriller set at the International Space Station; The Snowman, based on Jo Nesbø’s novel about detective Harry Hole; and The Greatest Showman, a biographical musical about P.T. Barnum (played by Hugh Jackman).
- life (biology)
life, living matter and, as such, matter that shows certain attributes that include responsiveness, growth, metabolism, energy transformation, and reproduction. Although a noun, as with other defined entities, the word life might be better cast as a verb to reflect its essential status as a
- Life (magazine)
Life’s commitment to vivid photojournalism made it one of the most popular and widely imitated American magazines during the 20th century. Life was launched as a weekly magazine in 1936 by Henry Luce, publisher of Time, and it quickly became a cornerstone of his Time-Life Publications. It ceased
- Life (film by Demme [1999])
Martin Lawrence: In Life (1999) he and Eddie Murphy played two strangers who become friends after being sentenced to life in prison in the 1930s for a crime they did not commit. Lawrence again displayed his facility with prostheses by playing an FBI agent who must disguise himself…
- Life & Beth (American television series)
Michael Cera: Later credits and voice work: …appearing on the dramedy series Life & Beth, playing the love interest of star Amy Schumer.
- Life & Times of Michael K (novel by Coetzee)
Life & Times of Michael K, novel by South African author J.M. Coetzee, who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature. Published in 1983, Life & Times of Michael K won the Booker Prize for fiction. Life & Times of Michael K uses the enduring South African pastoral ideal to challenge the myths
- Life × 3 (play by Reza)
Yasmina Reza: Reza’s next play, Trois versions de la vie, showed an awkward situation—a couple arriving a day early for a dinner party—working itself out in three different outcomes. After premiering in Vienna in October 2000, it opened the following month in Paris, with the author in the cast, and…
- life adjustment movement (education)
National Defense Education Act: Background: …in American schools was the life adjustment movement, which aimed to provide a curriculum that would teach “life skills” that would be particularly valuable for students who did not plan to continue on to college or other types of postsecondary training after high school. This movement, headed by the vocational…
- Life After Beth (film by Baena [2014])
Cheryl Hines: Career: …in the zombie comedy film Life After Beth and the romantic comedy Think Like a Man Too in 2014. Additionally, she is a panelist on the musical game show I Can See Your Voice (2020– ).
- life after death (religion)
afterlife, continued existence in some form after physiological death. The belief that some aspect of an individual survives after death—usually, the individual’s soul—is common to the great majority of the world’s religions. Of those religions that include belief in an afterlife, almost all
- Life After Death (album by The Notorious B.I.G.)
The Notorious B.I.G.: Wallace’s second solo album, Life After Death, was released later that month.
- Life After God (short stories by Coupland)
Douglas Coupland: Life After God (1994) is an introspective collection of short stories about contemporary suburbanites. The novel Microserfs (1995) had its origins in an assignment for Wired magazine during which Coupland observed employees of Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington, U.S. Microserfs was his fictional account of…
- Life After Life (novel by Atkinson)
Kate Atkinson: …later critically acclaimed works was Life After Life (2013), a novel in which the protagonist, Ursula Todd, repeatedly dies and is reborn in the year 1910. In each new life, Ursula is confronted by different choices and situations that have the potential to alter the course of history. The novel…
- Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims (work by Winnemucca)
Sarah Winnemucca: …best known for her book Life Among the Piutes: Their Wrongs and Claims (1883). Her writings, valuable for their description of Northern Paiute life and for their insights into the impact of white settlement, are among the few contemporary Native American works.
- Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens, The (novel by Rechy)
John Rechy: …Coming of the Night (1999), The Life and Adventures of Lyle Clemens (2003), After the Blue Hour (2017), and Pablo! (2018). In addition, he published the essay collection Beneath the Skin (2004). About My Life and the Kept Woman (2008) is a memoir.
- Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, The (novel by Dickens)
Martin Chuzzlewit, novel by Charles Dickens, published serially under the pseudonym “Boz” from 1843 to 1844 and in book form in 1844. The story’s protagonist, Martin Chuzzlewit, is an apprentice architect who is fired by Seth Pecksniff and is also disinherited by his own eccentric, wealthy
- Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, The (novel by Dickens)
Nicholas Nickleby, novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in 20 monthly installments under the pseudonym “Boz” from 1838 to 1839 and published in book form in 1839. An early novel, this melodramatic tale of young Nickleby’s adventures as he struggles to seek his fortune in Victorian England
- Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer, The (work by Panofsky)
Erwin Panofsky: (1943; later published as The Life and Art of Albrecht Dürer [1955]); Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St.-Denis and Its Art Treasures (1946); Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism (1951); Early Netherlandish Painting, 2 vol. (1953); Meaning in the Visual Arts (1955), a collection of nine of Panofsky’s most…
- Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out (novel by Mo Yan)
Mo Yan: …Sandalwood Death), Shengsi pilao (2006; Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out), and Wa (2009; Frog). Wan shu de ren (2020; A Late Bloomer) contains 12 novellas.
- Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (film by Powell and Pressburger [1943])
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, British romantic drama, released in 1943, that is famous for its lush Technicolor cinematography. It was the first film produced by director Michael Powell and screenwriter Emeric Pressburger after they formed the partnership known as the Archers. The story
- Life and Death of Habbie Simson, the Piper of Kilbarchan, The (work by Sempill)
Robert Sempill: He wrote the elegy “The Life and Death of Habbie Simson, the Piper of Kilbarchan” (1640). This humorous poem in Scots was included by James Watson in his Choice Collection (1706), and its fame was assured when the poet Allan Ramsay called its metre “Standart Habbie” and used it…
- Life and Death of Habbie Simson, the Piper of Kilbarchan, The (work by Sempill)
Robert Sempill: He wrote the elegy “The Life and Death of Habbie Simson, the Piper of Kilbarchan” (1640). This humorous poem in Scots was included by James Watson in his Choice Collection (1706), and its fame was assured when the poet Allan Ramsay called its metre “Standart Habbie” and used it…
- Life and Death of Harriett Frean (novel by Sinclair)
English literature: The literature of World War I and the interwar period: …Olivier: A Life (1919) and Life and Death of Harriett Frean (1922), which explored the ways in which her female characters contributed to their own social and psychological repression. West, whose pen name was based on one of Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen’s female characters, was similarly interested in female self-negation.…
- Life and Death of Jason, The (poem by Morris)
William Morris: Iceland and socialism: …success with the romantic narrative The Life and Death of Jason (1867), which was soon followed by The Earthly Paradise (1868–70), a series of narrative poems based on classical and medieval sources. The best parts of The Earthly Paradise are the introductory poems on the months, in which Morris reveals…
- Life and Death of King John, The (work by Shakespeare)
King John, chronicle play in five acts by William Shakespeare, written perhaps in 1594–96 and published in the First Folio of 1623 from an authorial manuscript that may have been copied and supplied with some theatrical touches. The source of the play was a two-part drama generally known as The
- Life and Death of Mr. Badman, The (work by Bunyan)
John Bunyan: Later life and works of John Bunyan: His The Life and Death of Mr. Badman (1680) is more like a realistic novel than an allegory in its portrait of the unrelievedly evil and unrepentant tradesman Mr. Badman. The book gives an insight into the problems of money and marriage when the Puritans were…
- Life and Death of Peter Sellers, The (film by Hopkins [2004])
Charlize Theron: …in two movies in 2004, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers and Head in the Clouds. Her performance as a miner battling sexual harassment in North Country (2005) earned Theron an Academy Award nomination for best actress. She subsequently appeared in the drama In the Valley of Elah (2007),…
- Life and Labour of the People in London (work by Booth)
Sidney and Beatrice Webb: Early life of Beatrice Potter Webb.: …his monumental study of The Life and Labour of the People in London. In 1891 she published The Co-operative Movement in Great Britain, a small book based on her experiences in Lancashire, which later became a classic. It was not long before she realized that in order to find any…
- Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp, The (American television series)
Harry Warren: …for the 1955–61 television series The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp. He continued to compose but published little music after 1962.
- Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay (work by Trevelyan)
Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet: His Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay, 2 vol. (1876), regarded as one of the best biographies in English, presents Lord Macaulay, a historian and Whig politician, in the round and, though sympathetic, is never partisan. His historical works include the Early History of Charles James…
- Life and Letters of Martin Luther, The (work by Smith)
Preserved Smith: …published as a full biography, The Life and Letters of Martin Luther (1911), in which he saw the Reformation as the most significant period of change in modern thought and Luther as its leader. In 1920 he published his great work, The Age of the Reformation, a comprehensive survey of…
- Life and Loves of a She-Devil, The (novel by Weldon)
Fay Weldon: The Life and Loves of a She-Devil (1983) is critical of the roles both men and women play in supporting the ideal image of feminine beauty; Death of a She-Devil (2017) is the sequel.
- Life and Memorable Actions of George Washington, The (work by Weems)
Mason Locke Weems: …edition (1806) of Weems’s book The Life and Memorable Actions of George Washington (1800).
- Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, The (novel by Sterne)
Tristram Shandy, experimental novel by Laurence Sterne, published in nine volumes from 1759 to 1767. Wildly experimental for its time, Tristram Shandy seems almost a modern avant-garde novel. Narrated by Shandy, the story begins at the moment of his conception and diverts into endless digressions,
- Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years, All Alone in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, Wherein All the Men Perished but Himself. With an Account how he was at last as Strangely Deliver’d by Pyrates. Written by Himself., The (novel by Defoe)
Robinson Crusoe, novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in London in 1719. Defoe’s first long work of fiction, it introduced two of the most-enduring characters in English literature: Robinson Crusoe and Friday. Crusoe is the novel’s narrator. He describes how, as a headstrong young man, he ignored
- Life and Times of Frederick Douglass (work by Douglass)
African American literature: Slave narratives: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself (1845; read excerpts here) gained the most attention, establishing Frederick Douglass as the leading African American man of letters of his time. By predicating his struggle for freedom on his solitary pursuit…
- Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, The (film by Huston [1972])
John Huston: Last films: …follow-up was the revisionist western The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1973), a loose biography of the notorious self-appointed hanging judge Roy Bean, which featured Paul Newman in the title role, an irreverent screenplay by John Milius, and a supporting cast that included Anthony Perkins, Ava Gardner, and…
- Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle, The (British television series)
Jennifer Saunders: …a talk show host in The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle. She later voiced Miss Reason in the surreal comedy series This Is Jinsy (2010–11, 2014) and appeared as a prison warden in the show Dead Boss (2012). She also costarred with Timothy Spall in the P.G. Wodehouse-inspired Blandings…
- Life and Work Movement (religious organization)
World Council of Churches: The Life and Work Movement concentrated on the practical activities of the churches, and the Faith and Order Movement focused on the beliefs and organization of the churches and the problems involved in their possible reunion. Before long, the two movements began to work toward establishing…
- life annuity
insurance: Group annuities: A life annuity, a subclass of annuities in general, is one in which the payments are guaranteed for the lifetime of one or more individuals. A group annuity differs from an individual annuity in that the annuity payments are based upon the assumed length of lives…
- Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The (film by Anderson [2004])
Noah Baumbach: Film career: …Anderson on the screenplay for The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, which Anderson directed. The quirky comedy starred Bill Murray as an oceanographer who seeks revenge on the shark that killed his diving partner.
- Life as a House (film by Winkler [2001])
Kevin Kline: Later credits: …21st century Kline appeared in Life as a House (2001), The Emperor’s Club (2002), and The Pink Panther (2006), as well as Kenneth Branagh’s As You Like It (2006). He also performed in Robert Redford’s The Conspirator (2010), played
- Life As We Know It (film by Berlanti [2010])
Katherine Heigl: …The Ugly Truth (2009), and Life As We Know It (2010), about a mismatched couple entrusted with raising an orphaned infant. She also appeared in the action comedies Killers (2010), as a woman who unknowingly marries a former assassin, and One for the Money (2012), as a novice bounty hunter.…
- Life Before This, The (film by Ciccoritti [1999])
Catherine O’Hara: Schitt’s Creek and Beetlejuice Beetlejuice: …credits included the crime film The Life Before This (1999), the comedy Orange County (2002), A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004), the fantasy Penelope (2006), Away We Go (2009), and the TV movie Temple Grandin (2010). She appeared in several TV comedies and had a recurring role (2003 and 2005)…
- Life Begins at Forty (book by Pitkin)
Great Depression: Portrayals of hope: …the decade’s best-selling self-help books, Life Begins at Forty (1932) by Walter Pitkin, implied that a wise if chastened maturity was emotionally healthier and more realistic than adolescent self-confidence. At the same time, movies like Capra’s It Happened One Night (1934), You Can’t Take It with You (1938), and Meet…
- Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter (book by Poitier)
Sidney Poitier: Return to acting: Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter (2008) was a volume of advice and insights in epistolary form. He also released a suspense novel, Montaro Caine, in 2013.
- Life Class (play by Storey)
David Storey: …of a semiprofessional rugby team; Life Class (1974), about a failed art master; Mother’s Day (1976); Sisters (1978); Early Days (1980); and The March on Russia (1989).
- life cycle (biology)
life cycle, in biology, the series of changes that the members of a species undergo as they pass from the beginning of a given developmental stage to the inception of that same developmental stage in a subsequent generation. In many simple organisms, including bacteria and various protists, the
- life cycle development (computing)
information system: Internal information systems development: …two broad methods is used: life-cycle development or rapid application development (RAD).
- Life Divine, The (work by Aurobindo)
Indian philosophy: 19th- and 20th-century philosophy in India and Pakistan: In his major work, The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo starts from the fact of human aspiration for a kingdom of heaven on earth and proceeds to give a theoretical framework in which such an aspiration would be not a figment of imagination but a drive in nature, working through…
- life estate (law)
property law: Life estate and remainder: One of the possible temporal divisions of ownership in Anglo-American law, the life estate and the remainder in fee, has already been considered. In such an arrangement the life tenant has the right to possess the land for his natural life.…
- life everlasting (plant)
pussy-toes: Antennaria dioica has several cultivated varieties of white, wooly appearance and with small clusters of white to rose flowers. In some species, including smaller pussy-toes (A. neodioica), male flowers are rare. The plantain-leaved pussy-toes (A. plantaginifolia), also called ladies’ tobacco, has longer and broader basal…
- life expectancy
life expectancy, estimate of the average number of additional years that a person of a given age can expect to live. The most common measure of life expectancy is life expectancy at birth. Life expectancy is a hypothetical measure. It assumes that the age-specific death rates for the year in
- Life for the Tsar, A (opera by Glinka)
opera: Russian opera: …Glinka: Zhizn za tsarya (A Life for the Tsar), also known as Ivan Susanin, (1836), and Ruslan i Lyudmila (1842; “Ruslan and Lyudmila”), both premiered in St. Petersburg. Basically Italianate operas, they—Ruslan in particular—determined the course of Russian opera, because of Glinka’s approximations of Slavic folk music, his modified…
- Life Goes On (film by Datta [2009])
Girish Karnad: Acting and directing: …and acting in Iqbal (2005), Life Goes On (2009), and 24 (2016), among others.
- Life Goes On (American television series)
Patti LuPone: In the television series Life Goes On (1989–93), she played the mother of a child with Down syndrome. The mixed reviews of her performance as Norma Desmond in Lloyd Webber’s London production of Sunset Boulevard (1992) led him to replace her with Glenn Close in the Broadway production. LuPone…
- life history (biology)
population ecology: Life histories and the structure of populations: An organism’s life history is the sequence of events related to survival and reproduction that occur from birth through death. Populations from different parts of the geographic range that a species inhabits may exhibit marked variations in their…
- Life History and the Historical Moment (work by Erikson)
Erik Erikson: …in a collection of essays, Life History and the Historical Moment (1975), which links psychoanalysis to history, political science, philosophy, and theology. His later works include The Life Cycle Completed: A Review (1982) and Vital Involvement in Old Age (1986), written with his wife and Helen Q. Kivnik. A collection…