POINTS OF ENTRY THIS WEEK'S RECOMMENDATIONS Intemperance: "A Modern Instance," the 1882 novel of divorce by William Dean Howells, contains the best scene of drunkenness in all of literature.
The formula was displayed at its best in Their Wedding Journey (1872), A Modern Instance (1882), and The Rise of Silas Lapham (1885).
Books he wrote which writer discusses include: "A Foregone Conclusion," "A Modern Instance," "Indian Summer," "The Rise of Silas Lapham,""Their Wedding Journey," "A Chance Acquaintance," "Suburban Sketches," "Venetian Life," "A Boy's 'Town," "My Literary Passions," "The Landlord at Lion's Head," and "A Hazard of New Fortunes".
Think of it as an early modern instance of theological praxis.
The anthrax-tainted letters addressed to members of Congress after the Sept. 11 attacks were the first modern instance of bioterrorism to rattle Capitol Hill.
Wilson's own presidency, as the historian Jill Lepore pointed out last week in The New Yorker, can be interpreted as an attempt to put his theory into practice, and he too was unable to realize much of what he envisioned, though his two terms represent the first modern instance of the "imperial presidency".
The result, Gonzalez-Barrera argues, is the first modern instance of the migration scales tipping: More Mexican nationals are leaving the U.S. than the number of Mexicans entering the country.
In the materials that follow, we shall begin with a nostalgic look at one of the great moments of nineteenth-century jurisprudence, and then consider a few modern instances of the ebb and flow of doctrine in this traditionally confused area of the law.
These are modern instances of ancient puzzles, and Mr Press is wise not to pretend to be offering new wisdom.
Modern instances of such activity include campaigns by the Italian Red Brigades, the German Red Army Faction (Baader-Meinhof Gang), the Basque separatist group ETA, and the Peruvian Shining Path (Sendero Luminoso), each of which attempted to topple a national regime.
A miscellany of wrongs, ranging from encroachment of branches or roots to falling tiles or slates from nearby roofs, are covered by the amorphous tort of private nuisance, which also covers such interferences as excessive vibrations, noise, smells, and other, more modern, instances of pollution.
