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31Sarcasm — is stating the opposite of an intended meaning especially in order to sneeringly, slyly, jest or mock a person, situation or thing. It is strongly associated with irony, with some definitions classifying it as a type of verbal irony intended to… …
32Coptic Persecutions — • During the first two centuries the Church of Alexandria seems to have been freer from official persecution at the hands of the Roman Government than its sister churches of Rome and Antioch. . . Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Coptic… …
33Music at Night — 1st UK edition (publ. Chatto Windus) Music at Night is a 1931 collection of essays by Aldous Huxley. The essays in this books cover different subjects, such as morality in arts ( To the Puritan All Thing are Impure , a defence of his friend D. H …
34NADIR, MOYSHE — (pseudonym of Isaac Reis; 1885–1943), Yiddish poet and humorist. Born in eastern Galicia, Nadir emigrated to New York at the age of 13 and at 16 began to write lyrics in which he emphasized the hardships of the immigrant generation. His later… …
35STUDY — The study of the Torah (talmud Torah) as a supreme religious duty is one of the most typical and far reaching ideas of rabbinic Judaism. Talmudic literature is full of references to the mitzvah of Torah study, especially of the difficult halakhic …
