And yet, in the next scene we meet Emmi's daughter, whose white, German husband is feigning illness in order to have time off work and is too lazy to raise himself out of his armchair to fetch another beer, preferring to order his wife to do this on pain of a beating should she refuse. ... For example, the grocer, who by that time has refused to serve either Ali or Emmi, decides that aversion must give way to business sense and welcomes Emmi and her custom back with open arms . ... This is never portrayed in the film, for it is the one time when the couple are likely to be genuinely hap...

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This is reflected in his prose essays and music dramas.... they ride intellectual hobby horses of varying colors and breeds, and some of the most ambitious artistic works, like the Ring tetralogy, ride several horses at the same time'#. ... Wagner first read Schopenhauer, in 1854, at a time when his somewhat facile optimism was already giving way to doubts about the possibilities of establishing heaven on earth'#, and this was particularly important because it marked for him an apocalyptic moment, which can be seen in his works at the time, for example his essay "Beethoven-. ......

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A descendant of the prominent Elliot family of New England, the daughter of a highly respected minister, and a former educator in her own right, Nancy Edison now commenced teaching Tom, her last and favorite son, the three Rs" and the Bible. ... As time passed, Tom spent countless hours imagining all kinds of daring and outlandish experiments and hypothesis. ... It was around this time that Tom contracted scarlet fever and began to lose his hearing. ... When the War ended Tom decided, to his mother's dismay, that it was time to leave home and "seek his fortune." ... Tom promptly came to g...

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