- Tlemcen (Algeria)
Tlemcen, town, northwestern Algeria, near the border with Morocco. Tlemcen is backed by the cliffs of the well-watered Tlemcen Mountains and overlooks the fertile Hennaya and Maghnia plains. Lying at an elevation of 2,648 feet (807 metres), Tlemcen is located sufficiently inland to avoid the
- Tlemcen, Great Mosque of (mosque, Tlemcen, Algeria)
Almoravids: …the Almoravid age is the Great Mosque at Tlemcen, Algeria. Built in 1082, it was restored in 1136 but not in true Almoravid style. The miḥrāb is unusually ornate, surrounded by multilobed arches decorated with arabesques. The work is indicative of trends that were to develop in Spain and North…
- Tlhaping (people)
South Africa: Growth of the colonial economy: …communities such as the Rolong, Tlhaping, Hurutshe, and Ngwaketse. For self-defense some of these African communities formed larger groupings who competed against each other in their quest to control trade routes going south to the Cape and east to present-day Mozambique.
- Tlingit (people)
Tlingit, northernmost of the Northwest Coast Indians of North America, living on the islands and coastal lands of southern Alaska from Yakutat Bay to Cape Fox. They spoke the Tlingit language, which is related to Athabaskan. According to their traditions, some of their ancestors came from the south
- Tlingit language (language)
Na-Dené languages: Tlingit and Haida are each single languages making up separate families; they are spoken, respectively, in southeastern Alaska and British Columbia. The major language of the Na-Dené group is Navajo, spoken by large Indian populations in Arizona and New Mexico. It is one of the…
- Tlokwa (people)
Qwaqwa: …people, the Kwena and the Tlokwa. The Orange Free State’s government settled these peoples at Witsieshoek and in the surrounding area in the 1870s by concluding peace with their leaders. In 1926 the Orange Free State government placed the Tlokwa under the authority of the Kwena but gave each group…
- Tlr4 (gene)
Bruce A. Beutler: …a mouse gene known as Tlr4 (toll-like receptor 4) that contribute to septic shock. Whereas the normal Tlr4 protein recognizes LPS and thereby mediates the immune response to bacteria carrying the toxin, the mutated version results in unchecked bacterial growth, such that when the body reacts, large quantities of bacteria-destroying…
- TLS (British journal)
Times Literary Supplement (TLS), weekly literary journal founded in 1902 as a supplement to The Sunday Times of London, long famous for its coverage of all aspects of literature and widely considered the finest literary review in the English language. TLS sets the tone and standards for excellence
- tlúr, An (Northern Ireland, United Kingdom)
Newry, town, Newry, Mourne and Down district, southeastern Northern Ireland. It lies along the River Clanrye and Newry Canal, near Carlingford Lough (inlet of the sea) and the Mourne Mountains. The town developed around a Cistercian abbey founded on the Clanrye by St. Malachy about 1144 and was
- TM
Transcendental Meditation, technique of meditation in which practitioners mentally repeat a special Sanskrit word or phrase (mantra) with the aim of achieving a state of inner peacefulness and bodily calm. The technique was taught by the Hindu monk Swami Brahmananda Saraswati, also known as Guru
- Tm (chemical element)
thulium (Tm), chemical element, a rare-earth metal of the lanthanide series of the periodic table. Thulium is a moderately hard, silvery white metal that is stable in air but can easily be dissolved in diluted acids—except hydrofluoric acid (HF), in which an insoluble trifluoride (TmF3) layer forms
- TMD (military strategy)
theatre missile defense (TMD), deployment of nuclear and conventional missiles for the purpose of maintaining security in a specific region, or theatre. The purpose of theatre missile defense (TMD) is to protect allies from local threats in their region or to address specific security issues and
- Tmesipteris (plant genus)
plant: Order Psilotales: …two living genera (Psilotum and Tmesipteris) and several species that are restricted to the subtropics. This unusual group of small herbaceous plants is characterized by a leafless and rootless body possessing a stem that exhibits a primitive dichotomous type of branching: it forks into equal halves. The photosynthetic function is…
- Tmetothylacus (bird genus)
pipit: in the genera Anthus and Tmetothylacus in the family Motacillidae (order Passeriformes, suborder Passeri [songbirds]). They are found worldwide except in polar regions.
- TMNT (media franchise)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT), comic-book series about a quartet of humanlike warrior turtles, which grew into an enduring multimedia franchise. Born of a radioactive accident, raised by a talking rat, and named for Renaissance painters, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles—cool-headed leader
- ʿTmol shilshom (work by Agnon)
S.Y. Agnon: …third and perhaps greatest novel, ʿTmol shilshom (1945; “The Day Before Yesterday”), examines the problems facing the westernized Jew who immigrates to Israel. This is neither a realistic story (like some of the early tales) nor a symbolic autobiography, yet it can be understood only in the light of Agnon’s…
- TMS
transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), technique based on electromagnetic induction that is used to stimulate neurons in the brain cortex (the outer layer of brain tissue, or gray matter). Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was introduced by English medical physicist Anthony Barker in 1985
- TMS (chemical compound)
chemical compound: Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy: …the protons in the compound tetramethylsilane, (CH3)4Si. Tetramethylsilane is an inert liquid added in small amounts to the compound being analyzed. All 12 of its hydrogen atoms absorb at the same position to give a single sharp peak, which is arbitrarily assigned a positional value of zero. This peak is…
- TMV (plant virus)
plant virus: …of the most well-studied viruses, tobacco mosaic virus (TMV), is spread mechanically by abrasion with infected sap. Symptoms of virus infection include colour changes, dwarfing, and tissue distortion. The appearance of streaks of colour in certain tulips is caused by virus.
- TMX Group (Canadian company)
London Stock Exchange: …that the LSE and the TMX Group, owner of the Toronto Stock Exchange, had agreed to merge.
- Tn (chemical isotope)
radon: Radon-220 (thoron; 51.5-second half-life) was first observed in 1899 by American scientist Robert B. Owens and British scientist Ernest Rutherford, who noticed that some of the radioactivity of thorium compounds could be blown away by breezes in the laboratory. Radon-219 (actinon; 3.92-second half-life), which is
- TN cell (physics)
liquid crystal display: Twisted nematic displays: A TN cell, as shown in the figure, consists of upper and lower substrate plates separated by a narrow gap (typically 5–10 micrometres; 1 micrometre = 10−6 metre) filled with a layer of liquid crystal. The substrate plates are normally transparent glass and carry patterned electrically…
- TNC (rebel leadership council, Libya)
Arab League: …under the representation of the Transitional National Council (TNC) after Qaddafi was overthrown. Meanwhile, as the 2011 uprising in Syria grew increasingly violent, the Arab League reached an agreement with the Syrian government in November to end its bloody 10-month campaign against peaceful protesters in Syria. Less than two weeks…
- TNF (pathology)
tumour necrosis factor (TNF), a naturally occurring protein that is produced in the human body by the phagocytic cells known as macrophages. (The latter can engulf and destroy bacteria, viruses, and other foreign substances.) TNF is produced by macrophages when they encounter the poisonous
- TNFSF15 (protein)
inflammatory bowel disease: …mutation of a gene called TNFSF15 (tumour necrosis factor ligand superfamily member 15), which is involved in suppressing inflammation, has been identified as an ethnic-specific IBD susceptibility gene. In addition, variation of a gene called IL23R (interleukin 23 receptor), particularly in persons of northern European descent, has been associated with…
- TNG (American television program)
Gene Roddenberry: …of the sequel television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. In addition, he wrote Star Trek—The Motion Picture: A Novel (1979).
- TNI (Indonesian military)
Indonesia: Security of Indonesia: …of their pre-Sukarno names, the National Army of Indonesia (Tentara Nasional Indonesia; TNI), and the police were split into a separate unit. The army, constituting more than three-fourths of the forces, has remained the largest segment of the TNI. Men must be at least 18 years old to join the…
- TNM staging system (tumor classification system)
cancer: Grading and staging: …standardized classification system is the TNM staging system, put forth by the Union Internationale Contre le Cancer and the American Joint Committee on Cancer. In this system T refers to the size of the primary tumour, N to the presence and extent of lymph node metastases, and M to the…
- TNO (astronomy)
Kuiper belt: …may represent the transition from Kuiper belt objects [KBOs] to short-period comets.) Although its existence had been assumed for decades, the Kuiper belt remained undetected until the 1990s, when the prerequisite large telescopes and sensitive light detectors became available.
- TNP (French national theater)
Théâtre National Populaire (TNP), French national theatre created in 1920 to bring theatre to the general public. Its first director, Firmin Gémier, had been the director of the Théâtre Antoine and had made a number of attempts to create a people’s theatre. Initially the TNP offered productions
- TNR (American magazine)
The New Republic, journal of opinion edited in Washington, D.C. and later New York City, that remained one of the most influential magazines in the United States from its founding in 1914. The magazine was begun by Willard Straight with Herbert David Croly as its editor. The New Republic reflected
- TNT (American cable network)
Ted Turner: Media empire: …news channel, and TNT (Turner Network Television; 1988). Through the Turner Broadcasting System, he also purchased the Atlanta Braves major league baseball team in 1976 and the Atlanta Hawks professional basketball team in 1977. In 1986 he bought the MGM/UA Entertainment Company, which included Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s library of more than…
- TNT (chemical compound)
trinitrotoluene (TNT), a pale yellow, solid organic nitrogen compound used chiefly as an explosive, prepared by stepwise nitration of toluene. Because TNT melts at 82° C (178° F) and does not explode below 240° C (464° F), it can be melted in steam-heated vessels and poured into casings. It is
- TNX (explosive)
explosive: TNT: …a mixture of 40 percent trinitroxylene (TNX) and 60 percent TNT. This mixture not only casts perfectly but can be detonated with a smaller tetryl booster. There is no indication that any TNX was used in World War II; it is believed to have been replaced by PETN and RDX.
- Tny (Egypt)
Jirjā: …was probably the town of This (Tny), ancestral home of the 1st dynasty (c. 2925–c. 2775 bce), which unified Egypt. Its present name derives from the ancient Coptic monastery of Mar Girgis, dedicated to St. George. In the 14th century ce it became a centre of the Hawwārah, an Arabized…
- To a Fat Lady Seen from a Train (poem by Cornford)
Frances Cornford: …the sadly comic poem “To a Fat Lady Seen from a Train” (“O fat white woman whom nobody loves, / Why do you walk through the fields in gloves…”).
- To a Skylark (poem by Shelley)
To a Skylark, lyric poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, published in 1820 with Prometheus Unbound. Consisting of 21 five-line stanzas, “To a Skylark” is considered a work of metric virtuosity in its ability to convey the swift movement of the bird who swoops high above the earth, beyond mortal
- To a Waterfowl (poem by Bryant)
To a Waterfowl, lyric poem by William Cullen Bryant, published in 1818 and collected in Poems (1821). It is written in alternately rhymed quatrains. At the end of a difficult day filled with uncertainty and self-doubt, the poet is comforted by the sight of a solitary waterfowl on the horizon and
- To Add One Metre to an Anonymous Mountain (performance art by Zhang Huan)
Zhang Huan: …several group performances, such as To Add One Metre to an Anonymous Mountain (1995). In this piece Zhang and nine others gathered on a mountain peak, removed their clothes, and laid atop one another until they achieved a height of one metre. Other characteristic images of art made during this…
- To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before (song by David and Hammond)
Julio Iglesias: His song with Nelson, “To All the Girls I’ve Loved Before,” reached the top 10 on the Billboard charts. Subsequent collaborations included duets with Dolly Parton, Art Garfunkel, Stevie Wonder, Luciano Pavarotti, and Frank Sinatra. Though his touring
- To All the Girls... (album by Nelson [2013])
Willie Nelson: … (2013), a collection of standards; To All the Girls… (2013), a series of duets with female singers; and Summertime (2016), a set of George Gershwin songs. In 2014 Nelson issued Band of Brothers, which comprised largely new material, and Willie’s Stash, Vol. 1: December Day, the first in a series…
- To an Athlete Dying Young (poem by Housman)
To an Athlete Dying Young, poem by A.E. Housman, published in the collection A Shropshire Lad. In seven melancholy stanzas, the poet reflects upon a young athlete brought home to be buried, musing that he was lucky to die at the peak of his glory since he will now never experience the fading of
- To Anacreon in Heaven (English drinking song)
The Star-Spangled Banner: Origin of the melody: …taken from the song “To Anacreon in Heaven,” which first surfaced about 1776 as a club anthem of the Anacreontic Society, an amateur mens’ music club in London. Written by British composer John Stafford Smith—whose identity was discovered only in the 1970s by a librarian in the music division…
- To Asmara (novel by Keneally)
Thomas Keneally: …included A Family Madness (1985), To Asmara (1989), Flying Hero Class (1991), Woman of the Inner Sea (1992), Jacko (1993), Homebush Boy (1995), Bettany’s Book (2000), The Tyrant’s Novel (2003), The Widow and Her Hero (2007),
- To Autumn (poem by Keats)
To Autumn, last major poem by John Keats, published in Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (1820). “To Autumn” (often grouped with his other odes, although Keats did not refer to it as an ode) comprises three 11-line stanzas. Written shortly before the poet died, the poem is a
- To Axion Esti (poem by Elytis)
Odysseus Elytis: The Axion Esti), a long poem in which the speaker explores the essence of his being as well as the identity of his country and people. This poem, set to music by Mikis Theodorakis, became immensely popular and helped Elytis earn the Nobel Prize.
- To Be a Pilgrim (novel by Cary)
To Be a Pilgrim, second novel in a trilogy by Joyce Cary, published in 1942. The novel is told in the voice of Tom Wilcher, an old man who is out of touch with the values of his era. Herself Surprised (1941) and The Horse’s Mouth (1944) are the first and third novels in the
- To Be or Not to Be (film by Lubitsch [1942])
To Be or Not to Be, American screwball comedy film, released in 1942, that was Carole Lombard’s last film. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, it is set in German-occupied Warsaw during World War II. The film’s comedic skewering of Nazis was particularly controversial at a time when the war was ongoing.
- To Be or Not to Be (film by Johnson [1983])
Anne Bancroft: Brooks—Silent Movie (1976), To Be or Not to Be (1983), and Dracula: Dead and Loving It (1995). For one of Bancroft’s occasional returns to the stage— Golda (1977)—she received a third Tony nomination, and television roles in PBS’s Mrs. Cage (1992) and CBS’s Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells…
- To Be the Poet (work by Kingston)
Maxine Hong Kingston: In To Be the Poet (2002), written mainly in verse, Kingston presented a rumination on elements of her own past and the acts of reading and creating poetry. The Fifth Book of Peace (2003) combines elements of fiction and memoir in the manner of a Chinese…
- To Be Young, Gifted, and Black (work by Hansberry)
To Be Young, Gifted, and Black, collection of writings, some previously unpublished, by playwright Lorraine Hansberry, produced in a stage adaptation Off-Broadway in 1969 and published in book form in 1970. Robert Nemiroff, Hansberry’s literary executor and ex-husband, edited and published this
- To be, or not to be (speech from “Hamlet”)
To be, or not to be, opening line of a monologue spoken by the character Hamlet in Act III, scene 1, of William Shakespeare’s revenge tragedy Hamlet (c. 1599–1601). Often referred to as a soliloquy, the speech technically does not meet that term’s strictest definition—that is, a monologue delivered
- To Bedlam and Part Way Back (poetry by Sexton)
Anne Sexton: …periodicals, and her first book, To Bedlam and Part Way Back, was published in 1960. The book won immediate attention because of the intensely personal and relentlessly honest self-revelatory nature of the poems recording her nervous breakdown and recovery. Their imagery was frequently brilliant, and their tone was both sardonic…
- To Begin Again (film by Garci [1982])
- To Bring You My Love (album by Harvey)
PJ Harvey: To Bring You My Love (1995) featured an expanded band and more-accessible arrangements. When Harvey toured with this material, she set aside her rugged guitar playing for a more theatrical presentation and was received with the kinds of cult accolades that Bruce Springsteen had generated…
- To Build a Fire (short story by London)
To Build a Fire, short story by Jack London, published in Century Magazine in 1908 and later reprinted in the 1910 collection Lost Face. (An earlier draft had been published in 1902 in Youth’s Companion.) London’s widely anthologized masterpiece illustrates in graphic terms the futility of human
- To Catch a Thief (film by Hitchcock [1955])
Alfred Hitchcock: The Paramount years: Rear Window to North by Northwest: Kelly also appeared in To Catch a Thief (1955), a romantic thriller shot on the French Riviera, in which she was paired with the debonair Cary Grant, who played a former jewel thief who may have returned to his old ways. Hitchcock came to regret this production, since it…
- To Daffodils (work by Herrick)
beginning rhyme: …and 4 of Robert Herrick’s “To Daffodils” demonstrate beginning rhyme:
- To Damascus (work by Strindberg)
August Strindberg: Late years: …a drama in three parts, To Damascus, in which he depicts himself as “the Stranger,” a wanderer seeking spiritual peace and finding it with another character, “the Lady,” who resembles both Siri and Frida.
- To Demetrianus (work by Cyprian)
Stoicism: Stoic elements in Pauline and patristic thought: …in his Ad Demetrianum (To Demetrius), a denunciation of an enemy to Christianity, in which Cyprian castigates the ill treatment of slaves (who, no less than their masters, are formed of the same matter and endowed with the same soul and live according to the same law). The beliefs…
- To Demetrius (work by Cyprian)
Stoicism: Stoic elements in Pauline and patristic thought: …in his Ad Demetrianum (To Demetrius), a denunciation of an enemy to Christianity, in which Cyprian castigates the ill treatment of slaves (who, no less than their masters, are formed of the same matter and endowed with the same soul and live according to the same law). The beliefs…
- To Die For (film by Van Sant [1995])
Gus Van Sant: To Die For (1995), however, was widely lauded for its incisive satire of the American fixation on celebrity. In the film, a Machiavellian news anchor played by Nicole Kidman manipulates three teenagers into murdering her unambitious husband, whom she sees as impeding her trajectory to…
- To Disembark (poetry by Brooks)
Gwendolyn Brooks: Later work and legacy: … (1980), Young Poet’s Primer (1980), To Disembark (1981), The Near-Johannesburg Boy, and Other Poems (1986), Blacks (1987), Winnie (1988), and Children Coming Home (1991).
- To Do List, The (film by Carey [2013])
Aubrey Plaza: …she starred in the comedy The To Do List (2013), about a recent high-school graduate who devises a plan to gain more sexual experience before college. In 2014 she starred in Life After Beth, a horror comedy about a young woman who returns from the dead, as well as the…
- To Each His Own (film by Leisen [1946])
Mitchell Leisen: Films of the 1940s of Mitchell Leisen: To Each His Own (1946), one of Leisen’s most highly regarded films, earned the respect of critics who praised his deft, sensitive handling of a story that might have easily descended into maudlin melodrama in another director’s hands. De Havilland won an Academy Award for…
- To Every Birth Its Blood (novel by Serote)
African literature: English: In To Every Birth Its Blood (1981), Mongane Wally Serote tells the stories of Tsi Molope and Oupa Molope. Tsi looks to his past and wonders, “Where does a river begin to take its journey to the sea?” The world in which Oupa—the son of Mary,…
- To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (film by Pressman [1996])
David E. Kelley: The romantic drama To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday (1996) starred his wife, actress Michelle Pfeiffer. His other movies included Mystery, Alaska (1999) and Lake Placid (1999).
- To God: From the Warring Nations (poetry by Maurice)
Furnley Maurice: …best known for his book To God: From the Warring Nations (1917), a powerful indictment of the waste, cruelty, and stupidity of war. He was also the author of lyrics, satirical verses, and essays.
- To Have and Have Not (novel by Hemingway)
To Have and Have Not, minor novel by Ernest Hemingway, published in 1937. Set in and near Key West, Florida, the novel is about a cynical boat owner whose concern for his rum-soaked sidekick and love for a reckless woman lead him to risk everything to aid gunrunners in a noble
- To Have and Have Not (film by Hawks [1944])
To Have and Have Not, American romantic adventure film, released in 1944, that was loosely based on Ernest Hemingway’s 1937 novel of the same name. The film is perhaps best known for the chemistry between Lauren Bacall, in her film debut, and Humphrey Bogart. To Have and Have Not is set on the
- To Helen (poetry by Poe)
Edgar Allan Poe: Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe: …his most touching lyrics (“To Helen,” “Annabel Lee,” “Eulalie,” “To One in Paradise”) and the full-toned prose hymns to beauty and love in “Ligeia” and “Eleonora.” In “Israfel” his imagination carried him away from the material world into a dreamland. This Pythian mood was especially characteristic of the later…
- To Hell and Back (film by Hibbs [1955])
Audie Murphy: …Red Badge of Courage (1951), To Hell and Back (1955), and The Quiet American (1958). He died when his private plane crashed. He was buried in Arlington National Cemetery with full military honours.
- To Hell with Your Old Man (song)
forty-nine dance: Setting and style: …the amorous message of “To Hell with Your Old Man”:
- To His Coy Mistress (poem by Marvell)
To His Coy Mistress, poem of 46 lines by Andrew Marvell, published in 1681. The poem treats the conventional theme of the conflict between love and time in a witty and ironic manner. The poet opens by telling his mistress that, given all the time in the world, he would spend hundreds of years
- To His Sacred Majesty (poem by Dryden)
John Dryden: Youth and education: …coronation in 1661, he wrote To His Sacred Majesty. These two poems were designed to dignify and strengthen the monarchy and to invest the young monarch with an aura of majesty, permanence, and even divinity. Thereafter, Dryden’s ambitions and fortunes as a writer were shaped by his relationship with the…
- To Kill a Cardinal (novel by Rumaker)
Michael Rumaker: His later novels included To Kill a Cardinal (1992), which was inspired by the ACT UP protest at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City in 1989, and Pagan Days (1999), a semiautobiographical work about a young boy discovering his homosexuality.
- To Kill a Mockingbird (play by Sorkin)
Aaron Sorkin: In 2018 Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s classic To Kill a Mockingbird (1960) premiered on Broadway, with Jeff Daniels portraying the lead, Atticus Finch. In 2020 Sorkin returned to the big screen with The Trial of the Chicago 7, which he wrote and directed. Based on true…
- To Kill a Mockingbird (novel by Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird, novel by American author Harper Lee, published in 1960. Enormously popular, it was translated into some 40 languages, sold more than 40 million copies worldwide, and is one of the most-assigned novels in American schools. In 1961 it won a Pulitzer Prize. The novel was praised
- To Kill a Mockingbird (film by Mulligan [1962])
To Kill a Mockingbird, American dramatic film, released in 1962, that was adapted from Harper Lee’s coming-of-age novel that addressed racism and injustice. Deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” to America’s film heritage, the Library of Congress honoured it with inclusion
- To Know Him Is to Love Him (song by Spector)
Phil Spector: …Angeles school friends recorded “To Know Him Is to Love Him,” a simple teenage ballad written by Spector, its title taken from his father’s gravestone. Released under the name of the Teddy Bears, it was one of the biggest hits of 1958. But the group was never to be…
- To Let (novel by Galsworthy)
The Forsyte Saga: …“Awakening” (1920), and the novel To Let (1921).
- To Live (film by Zhang [1994])
Zhang Yimou: …were examined in Huozhe (1994; To Live). Huozhe received the Grand Jury Prize at the Cannes film festival, but Chinese authorities refused to let Zhang attend the ceremony. He later directed the comedy You hua haohao shuo (1997; Keep Cool) and Yige dou bu neng shao (1999; Not One Less).…
- To Live and Die in L.A. (film by Friedkin [1985])
Willem Dafoe: …prominence for his role in To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), in which he played a counterfeiter attempting to elude capture by the police. Perhaps his best-known role was as Sgt. Elias Grodin in Oliver Stone’s Platoon (1986), which earned Dafoe his first Academy Award nomination. Dafoe was critically…
- To Live in Pronouns (work by Salinas y Serrano)
Pedro Salinas y Serrano: …love poems in English translation, To Live in Pronouns, was published in 1974. Salinas was also a respected scholar, known for studies on the 15th-century Spanish poet Jorge Manrique, the Nicaraguan poet Rubén Darío, and a modern verse rendition of the Poem of the Cid. The leading literary figures of…
- To Live Is to Love (essays by Cardenal)
Ernesto Cardenal: Vida en el amor (1970; To Live Is to Love), a book of philosophical 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.
- To Make My Bread (work by Lumpkin)
American literature: Critics of society: …the Heart and Grace Lumpkin’s To Make My Bread (both 1932). Other notable proletarian novels included Jack Conroy’s The Disinherited (1933), Robert Cantwell’s The Land of Plenty (1934), and Albert Halper’s Union Square (1933), The Foundry (1934), and The Chute (1937), as well as some grim evocations of the drifters…
- To Marcia (work by Seneca)
Seneca: Philosophical works and tragedies: …the Consolationes, Ad Marciam (To Marcia) consoles a lady on the loss of a son; Ad Helviam matrem (To Mother Helvia), Seneca’s mother on his exile; and Ad Polybium (To Polybius), a powerful freedman on the loss of a son but with a sycophantic plea for recall from Corsica.…
- To Mother Helvia (work by Seneca)
Seneca: Philosophical works and tragedies: …son; Ad Helviam matrem (To Mother Helvia), Seneca’s mother on his exile; and Ad Polybium (To Polybius), a powerful freedman on the loss of a son but with a sycophantic plea for recall from Corsica. The De ira (On Anger) deals at length with the passion, its consequences, and…
- To My Friends (poem by Pushkin)
Aleksandr Pushkin: Return from exile of Aleksandr Pushkin: …him of apostasy, forcing him to justify his political position in the poem “Druzyam” (1828; “To My Friends”). The anguish of his spiritual isolation at this time is reflected in a cycle of poems about the poet and the mob (1827–30) and in the unfinished Yegipetskiye nochi (1835; Egyptian Nights).
- To Nhu (Vietnamese poet)
Nguyen Du was the best-loved poet of the Vietnamese and creator of the epic poem Kim van Kieu, written in chu-nom (southern characters). He is considered by some to be the father of Vietnamese literature. Nguyen Du passed the mandarin examinations at the age of 19 and succeeded to a modest military
- To One in Paradise (poetry by Poe)
Edgar Allan Poe: Legacy of Edgar Allan Poe: “Annabel Lee,” “Eulalie,” “To One in Paradise”) and the full-toned prose hymns to beauty and love in “Ligeia” and “Eleonora.” In “Israfel” his imagination carried him away from the material world into a dreamland. This Pythian mood was especially characteristic of the later years of his life.
- To Paris Never Again (work by Purdy)
Al Purdy: His introspective and melancholic work To Paris Never Again (1997) contains poems about death and lost friends, as well as a short memoir recounting his development and experiences as a poet. Purdy was a two-time recipient (1965 and 1986) of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, the highest poetry prize…
- To Philip (oration by Isocrates)
Isocrates: Isocrates as rhetorician: …later, in the letter “To Philip,” Isocrates appealed to the king of Macedonia to reconcile the Greeks and lead them against Persia. Since Philip was on the point of intervening in Greece to settle the Second Sacred War (355–346), many have believed that Isocrates was prepared to submit his…
- To Pimp a Butterfly (album by Lamar)
Kendrick Lamar: In 2015 Lamar released To Pimp a Butterfly, which was a huge success. The album broke a Spotify record—being streamed more than 9.6 million times—within a week of its release, and U.S. Pres. Barack Obama declared that the single “How Much a Dollar Cost” was his favourite song of…
- To Polybius (work by Seneca)
Seneca: Philosophical works and tragedies: …exile; and Ad Polybium (To Polybius), a powerful freedman on the loss of a son but with a sycophantic plea for recall from Corsica. The De ira (On Anger) deals at length with the passion, its consequences, and control. The De clementia (On Mercy), an exhortatory address to Nero,…
- To Repel Ghosts (the double album) (poetry by Young)
Kevin Young: Poetry collections: His next collection, To Repel Ghosts (the double album) (2001), introduced another dominant theme in his poetry: music. The collection memorialized the life and work of painter Jean-Michel Basquiat and drew connections between poetry, painting, jazz, and hip-hop. (Young revisited the collection in 2005 in a “revamped” edition…
- To Rome with Love (film by Allen [2012])
Woody Allen: 2000 and beyond: …the world’s great cities was To Rome with Love (2012). With a star-studded cast that included Cruz, Roberto Benigni, Alec Baldwin, Judy Davis, and Ellen (later Elliot) Page, as well as cinematography by Darius Khondji, it showed Rome to beautiful advantage, always recalling Fellini while presenting it through Allen’s uncynical…
- To Secure These Rights (United States government report)
Executive Order 9981: That group’s landmark report, To Secure These Rights, was published in October 1947. It proposed “to end immediately all discrimination and segregation based on race, color, creed, or national origin, in the organization and activities of all branches of the Armed Services.” Facing resistance from Southern senators, Truman circumvented…
- To See, to Take (poetry by Van Duyn)
Mona Van Duyn: …recognition following the publication of To See, to Take (1970), receiving the Bollingen Prize for achievement in American poetry (1970) and a National Book Award (1971).
- To Sir, with Love (film by Clavell [1967])
To Sir, with Love, British film drama, released in 1967, that was especially noted for Sidney Poitier’s powerful performance. Poitier played Mark Thackeray, a charismatic schoolteacher in London at the height of the youthful “mod” movement of the 1960s. He is assigned to a high school where