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Alma Mater (other)
''Alma mater'' is an allegorical Latin phrase for a university or college. Alma mater may also refer to: Organizations * Alma Mater Society of Queen's University, the central undergraduate student government of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada * Alma Mater Society of the University of British Columbia, the complete student government of the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada Universities * Alma Mater Europaea, an international university founded by the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, with headquarters in Salzburg, Austria * Alma Mater Studiorum ("Nourishing mother of studies"), the name of the University of Bologna, Italy Art, entertainment, and media Music School songs * Alma mater (song), the official song or anthem of a school, college, or university * Alma Mater (Dartmouth College), "Alma Mater" (Dartmouth College), the official school song of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, US * "Hail Alma Mater", the informal title of "Marquette Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carrie (musical)
''Carrie'' is a musical theatre, musical with a book by Lawrence D. Cohen, lyrics by Dean Pitchford, and music by Michael Gore. Adapted from Stephen King's 1974 novel ''Carrie (novel), Carrie'', it focuses on an awkward teenage girl with Psychokinesis, telekinetic powers whose lonely life is dominated by an oppressive religious fanatic mother. When she is humiliated by her classmates at the high school prom, she unleashes chaos on everyone and everything in her path. Originally premiering in the U.K. in 1988, ''Carrie'' opened on Broadway theatre, Broadway at the Virginia Theatre the same year, but closed after 16 previews and five regular performances. Due to the passionate response from both its critics and its fans, the show is considered one of the most notable failures in Broadway theatre history; a 1991 book written by Ken Mandelbaum, which chronicled the history of flop Broadway musicals, was partially entitled ''Not Since Carrie'', and a 2021 podcast, ''Out for Blood'', do ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jagiellonian University
The Jagiellonian University (Polish: ''Uniwersytet Jagielloński'', UJ) is a public research university in Kraków, Poland. Founded in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the oldest university in Poland and the 13th oldest university in continuous operation in the world. It is regarded as Poland's most prestigious academic institution. The university has been viewed as a guardian of Polish culture, particularly for continuing operations during the partitions of Poland and the two World Wars, as well as a significant contributor to the intellectual heritage of Europe. The campus of the Jagiellonian University is centrally located within the city of Kraków. The university consists of thirteen main faculties, in addition to three faculties composing the Collegium Medicum. It employs roughly 4,000 academics and provides education to more than 35,000 students who study in 166 fields. The main language of instruction is Polish, although around 30 degrees are offered in Engli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edvard Munch
Edvard Munch ( , ; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter. His best known work, ''The Scream'' (1893), has become one of Western art's most iconic images. His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the dread of inheriting a mental condition that ran in the family. Studying at the Royal School of Art and Design in Kristiania (today's Oslo), Munch began to live a bohemian life under the influence of the nihilist Hans Jæger, who urged him to paint his own emotional and psychological state (' soul painting'). From this emerged his distinctive style. Travel brought new influences and outlets. In Paris, he learned much from Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, especially their use of color. In Berlin, he met the Swedish dramatist August Strindberg, whom he painted, as he embarked on a major series of paintings he would later call ''The Frieze of Life'', depicting a series of deeply-felt themes such as love, anxiety, je ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alma Mater (New York Sculpture)
''Alma Mater'' is a bronze sculpture by Daniel Chester French which is located on the steps of the Low Memorial Library on the campus of Columbia University, in the Morningside Heights, Manhattan, Morningside Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. French designed the statue in 1901, and it was installed in September 1903. It is a personification of the ''alma mater'', which represents Columbia in its role as an educational institution; since its installation, the statue has become closely associated with the image of the university. History Commission and installation Plans for a statue in front of Low Memorial Library began upon the completion of the building in 1897. When Charles Follen McKim, the building's main architect, designed a set of stairs that would lead up to the building, he included an empty granite pedestal in the middle on which a statue might sit. Only three years later, Harriette W. Goelet offered Trustees of Columbia University in the City of Ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alma Mater (Illinois Sculpture)
The ''Alma Mater'', a bronze statue by sculptor Lorado Taft, is a beloved symbol of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The 10,000-pound statue depicts a mother-figure wearing academic robes and flanked by two attendant figures representing "Learning" and "Labor", after the university's motto "Learning and Labor." Sited at the corner of Green and Wright Streets at the heart of the campus, the statue is an iconic figure for the university and a popular backdrop for student graduation photos. It is appreciated for its romantic, heraldic overtones and warmth of pose. The statue was removed from its site at the entrance to the university for restoration in 2012 and was returned to its site in the spring of 2014. Description The ''Alma Mater'' is a bronze figure of a woman in academic robes. She stands in front of a stylized throne, or klismos, with her arms outstretched in welcome. The attendant figure "Labor" is a male who stands to her proper right and wears a blacksm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kay Swift
Katharine Faulkner "Kay" Swift (April 19, 1897 – January 28, 1993) was an American composer of popular and classical music, the first woman to score a hit musical completely. Written in 1930, the Broadway musical '' Fine and Dandy'' includes some of her best known songs; the song “ Fine and Dandy” has become a jazz standard. " Can't We Be Friends?" (1929) was her biggest hit song. Swift also arranged some of the music of George Gershwin posthumously, such as the prelude "Sleepless Night" (1946). Biography Katharine Faulkner Swift was born to English American Samuel Shippen Swift, a music critic, and Ellen Faulkner of England in New York City. Her father died when she was 17. Swift was educated at the Veltin School for Girls and then trained as a classical musician and composer at the Institute of Musical Art (today the Juilliard School), where she studied piano with Bertha Tapper. Her teacher of composition was Charles Martin Loeffler, while harmony and composition were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chuck Versus The Alma Mater
The first season of '' Chuck'' originally aired between September 24, 2007 and January 24, 2008. The season, cut short by the Writers' Strike, contains thirteen episodes. It introduced the series' main characters and established the general plot of the title character, Chuck Bartowski, having to adapt to his new life as a spy after the only remaining copy of the U.S. government's spy secrets are embedded into his brain. He is forced to juggle his responsibilities as a spy and the supervisor of a technical support team, called the "Nerd Herd", at his local Buy More store (a parody of Best Buy). Having become the most important asset of the U.S. government, Chuck is under the constant surveillance of his CIA handler, Sarah Walker, and NSA agent John Casey, who remind him that he cannot reveal his spy life to his sister Ellie, nor his best friend Morgan Grimes. Cast and characters Main cast * Zachary Levi as Charles "Chuck" Bartowski (13 episodes) * Yvonne Strahovski as A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hans Canosa
Hans Canosa (born January 10, 1970) is an American film director, screenwriter, film editor and producer best known for his independent film ''Conversations with Other Women'' (2005), starring Aaron Eckhart and Helena Bonham Carter. Background Canosa was born in Holden, Massachusetts, US, where he received a Fundamentalist Christian education from his parents. Because their beliefs did not support films, Canosa did not go to a movie theater until he was 17 years old. It was that day he first saw a film in a theater that Canosa first came up with the idea for a splitscreen film which he used in filming ''Conversations with Other Women''. Canosa first attended Atlantic Union College, then transferred to Harvard College (class '93). There he directed several plays and videos. While at Harvard, Canosa also met his partner Gabrielle Zevin when she was a cast member in a campus TV show he worked on. Zevin would later go on to write the screenplay for ''Conversations with Other Women ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alma Mater (play)
"Alma Mater" is the 11th episode of first season of the British BBC anthology TV series '' Play for Today''. The episode was a television play that was originally broadcast on 7 January 1971. "Alma Mater" was written by David Hodson, directed by James Ferman and produced by Irene Shubik. In the play civil servant Jimmy Nicholson (Ian Carmichael) returns home after a long period working in the Middle East to visit his son at boarding school, the same school where he himself attended. It is the school's sports day, and old school grudges come flooding back. The cast included Max Adrian, Hilda Braid, Nigel Hawthorne, Dinah Sheridan, Anthony Andrews and Christopher Reynalds. No recording of this ''Play for Today'' is known to survive. References External links * "Alma Mater"on the British Film Institute The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom. The BF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alma Mater (film)
''Alma Mater'' is a 2005 Uruguayan film directed by Álvaro Buela. Starring Roxana Blanco, Nicolás Becerra, Werner Schünemann and Walter Reyno, it deals with the life of a virgin woman who thinks herself as the future mother of a Saviour of the World. In 2005 it was nominated to the Goya Award for Best Iberoamerican Film The Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film ( es, Goya a la Mejor Película Iberoamericana), formerly the Goya Award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film ( es, Goya a la Mejor Película Extranjera de Habla Hispana, 1987–2008) and the Goya Award .... References External links * 2005 films Uruguayan drama films {{Uruguay-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alma Matters
"Alma Matters" is a song by Morrissey, released as a single in July 1997. It was the first single to be taken from the ''Maladjusted'' album and was released one week before the album. The single reached number 16 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming Morrissey's first top 20 hit since " The More You Ignore Me, the Closer I Get" in 1994. The song was also notable for seeing Morrissey reference the film ''A Taste of Honey'' for the first time since his early days in The Smiths in the line "it's my life to ruin my own way". The song title is a pun on '' Alma mater''. Track listings 7" vinyl and cassette (UK) # "Alma Matters" (Morrissey/Alain Whyte) # "Heir Apparent" (Morrissey/Whyte) 12" vinyl and CD # "Alma Matters" # "Heir Apparent" # "I Can Have Both" (Morrissey/Boz Boorer) Reviews Jack Rabid of AllMusic called this single "ho-hum", saying it was "a poor choice to represent ''Maladjusted''". He also criticized guitarists Boz Boorer and Alain Whyte, asking when Morrissey was go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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