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    Carnaval, op. 9, which is titled "Marche des Davidsbündler contre les Philistins". In The Sickness Unto Death (1849), the philosopher Søren Kierkegaard...
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  • Dave Philistin (born September 24, 1986) is an American former football linebacker and CEO and founder of Candor, a cloud-based managed IT services company...
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    socially and culturally determined by their economic materialism and philistinism, a social identity famously mocked in Molière's comedy Le Bourgeois gentilhomme...
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    qui ont proposé explicitement l' identification des Pourousta avec les Philistins sont William Osburn Jr., Ancient Egypt, Her Testimony to the Truth of...
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    Endowment for the Humanities National Humanities Medal Related Antihumanism Philistinism Criticism of mass culture Educational essentialism Humanities in the...
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    'breakdancing'. Breakdancing is a term spawned from the loins of the media's philistinism, sciolism, and naïveté at that time. With no true knowledge of the hip-hop...
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    Purple, they're just one-hit wonders.' How can you deal with that kind of Philistinism, you know?". Ian Gillan also commented, "I've fought all my life against...
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    everything I detested (fanaticism, violence, bigotry, humorlessness, philistinism, and the new offense culture of the age). Then I read Christopher using...
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  • writing endless propaganda doggerel, and the stifling conformism and philistinism of the World State make him restive. Helmholtz is ultimately exiled to...
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    self-confidence, emotional vulgarity, material extravagance, a ruthless philistinism expressed in tasteless architecture and every kind of expensive yet hideous...
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    bioregionalism. He disapproved of the subjugation of Native Americans, slavery, philistinism, technological utopianism, and what can be regarded in today's terms...
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    with overtones of middle-class pretentiousness, fake significance and philistinism). It is also described as a picaresque novel, a literary genre virtually...
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  • courage, elegance, and erudition against the modern diseases of nerdiness, philistinism, and phoniness." The title refers to Procrustes, a figure from Greek...
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    for such a gala – did not overcome what Matthews calls the "ingrained philistinism" of the ruling classes. Although Gloriana did well at the box office...
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    leads into the final section. 21. Marche des "Davidsbündler" contre les Philistins (A♭ major; Non allegro) Quotations from a number of the previous sections...
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    wanted to fight against all kinds of prejudice, amateurish slovenliness, philistinism, reactionary tendencies, in short to fight for the new and noble type...
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  • Tucholsky (1890–1935), a German author who was a masterly critic of philistinism, nationalism, militarism and corruptibility. He wrote poems, chansons...
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    highest humanistic ideals, yet at the same time prone to both stubborn philistinism and radical ideologies. As usual, Mann chooses his protagonist's name...
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    Nonetheless, the French use the term béotien ("Boeotian") to denote Philistinism. Boeotia had significant political importance, owing to its position...
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    Allemande and Intermezzo: Paganini Marche des Davidsbündler contre les Philistins Orchestra 1914 New orchestration of the suite for piano Op. 9 for Vaslav...
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    critic who is also regarded as a sage writer, famous for his criticism of philistinism. It was in the Victorian era (1837–1901) that the novel became the leading...
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    towards "social inclusion", where this means, in effect, mob rule. The philistinism of educational theory, the take-over of the humanities by the "postmodern"...
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    de la Vertu (Followers of Virtue) Opera Samson Dalila (Delilah) Le roi des Philistins (King of the Philistines) Le grand prêtre (High Priest) Chorus:...
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    about Poetry", the first in a series of works criticizing the new Soviet philistinism, the result of the New Economic Policy. His 1927 epic All Right! sought...
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  • The opposite is neomania, a love of change for its own sake, a form of philistinism that does not comply with the Lindy effect and that understands fragility...
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  • obtained the nickname Phil for, according to The Telegraph, "elevating Philistinism to an art form". Dicks was born with cerebral palsy on 17 March 1937...
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  • and again in the final section, "Marche des Davidsbündler contre les Philistins", but without acknowledgement. The "Großvatertanz" also appears in the...
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  • Bolshevism is equated with fascism. Fascism, unlike Bolshevism, was based on philistinism – its flesh and spirit). In Western political science, some authors analyze...
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    or sections:— First, Palestine, so called because first inhabited by Philistin son of Kusin, son of Muti, son of Yūmán, son of Yasith, son of Noah. Its...
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  • he also lamented on the lack of innovation and ambition, as well as a philistinism in the absence of art, among the Australian population, viewed by Horne...
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