• In the Beauty of the Lilies is a 1996 novel by John Updike. It takes its title from a line of the abolitionist song "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."...
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    John Updike (category Alumni of the Ruskin School of Art)
    rules." For example, the decline of religion in America is chronicled in In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996) alongside the history of cinema, and Rabbit...
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    wife Carol Steinbeck the title of his 1939 masterpiece The Grapes of Wrath. The title of John Updike's In the Beauty of the Lilies also came from this...
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    Wesley Updike (category United States Army personnel of World War I)
    history is broadly paralleled in In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996). Wesley Russell Updike was born on February 22, 1900, in Trenton, New Jersey, to Virginia...
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  • White Lilies Island is the second studio album by Australian singer-songwriter Natalie Imbruglia. It was released by RCA Records on 5 November 2001 in most...
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    his Water Lilies series came during a time when he was mainly painting water lilies in his pond, the pond's bridge, and his garden. List of paintings...
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    "Beauty and the Beast" is a fairy-tale written by French novelist Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot de Villeneuve and published in 1740 in La Jeune Américaine et...
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    novels in 2018, all under the editorship of Christopher Carduff. Alfred A. Knopf Bibliography of Philip Roth The New Yorker "Forthcoming from Library of America:...
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    Waco siege (redirect from Wacko in Waco)
    Updike has been directly inspired by the Waco events for the fourth and last part of his book In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996) which described how a troubled...
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    our sunset, the words went with me, and have never left my memory. In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea With a glory in His bosom...
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    Combat, The Legend of the Invincible, The Blood Hounds, State of Divinity, Better Halves and Beauty at War. Li left TVB in January 2020 after deciding not to...
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  • Consider the Lilies is a religious album released by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. The album was originally released in 2003. It was remastered in 2023 along...
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    Globe and a Primetime Emmy Award. Lily Chloe Ninette Thomson was born on 5 April 1989 in Esher, Surrey, the daughter of Ninette Mantle, an actress, and...
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    Elizabeth Gurley Flynn (category Industrial Workers of the World leaders)
    version of Flynn is depicted in John Updike's novel In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996), in which she is said to have had an affair with the anarchist...
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    as the fall equinox. As such, spider lilies are also known as hurricane lilies or equinox lilies. Like all members of the genus Lycoris, the bulbs of Lycoris...
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    works include the Henry Bech novels (1970–98), The Witches of Eastwick (1984), Roger's Version (1986) and In the Beauty of the Lilies (1996), which literary...
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    World is the oldest existing international beauty pageant. It was created in the United Kingdom by Eric Morley in 1951. Since his death in 2000, Morley's...
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    "Sleeping Beauty" (French: La Belle au bois dormant, or The Beauty Sleeping in the Wood; German: Dornröschen, or Little Briar Rose), also titled in English...
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    fell in love with a hotel kitchen employee. It is believed that the character of Beauty from "Smoke, Lilies and Jade" is based on this man. Many of Nugent's...
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  • Lily Munster (née Dracula) is a fictional character in the CBS sitcom, The Munsters, originally played by Yvonne De Carlo. The matriarch of the Munster...
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    Jersey, also the setting of his novel, In the Beauty of the Lilies). The novel begins with a brief monologue by Ahmad on the condition of American youth...
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  • The Great Optimist and Other Essays (1903) In the Beauty of the Lilies (1904) The Worth of Service (1904) Poems We Love (1907) Golden book of the Wanamaker...
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    Lambert Castle (category Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New Jersey)
    net/Lambert_Castle Archived January 24, 2012, at the Wayback Machine Accessed April 29, 2010. 6.In the Beauty of the Lilies, page 1. John Updike, 1996. Wikimedia...
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  • Jason Goldberg and J. D. Roth. The show's title is a parody of Beauty and the Beast. This was the first show produced by the Fox Television Studios sub-division...
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  • "Beauty on the Fire" is the third and final single from Australian singer-songwriter Natalie Imbruglia's second studio album, White Lilies Island (2001)...
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  • The Book of Beauty is a 1930 book by Cecil Beaton, his first published book of photographs. In his concept of beauty, Beaton, with sketches and photographs...
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    Lily Rose Beatrice Allen (born 2 May 1985) is an English singer, songwriter, actress, and author. Her musical career began in 2005 when she was signed...
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  • The Beauty of Montparnasse (French: La belle de Montparnasse) is a 1937 French comedy film directed by Maurice Cammage and starring Frédéric Duvallès...
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    Taking on the World: Joseph and Stewart Alsop- Guardians of the American Century, by Robert W. Merry Fiction - In the Beauty of the Lilies, by John Updike...
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    in 1910 and 1920 United States census returns, via Ancestry Mez, Kristin Kobes Du (2005). "The Beauty of the Lilies: Femininity, Innocence, and the Sweet...
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