Edward Boscawen: On his return he married Fanny Glanville, a noted “bluestocking” (an intellectual woman of the 18th century), whose conversation, said Samuel Johnson, was the best of any woman whom he had met.

Atlanta Falcons: …Rison, and flamboyant head coach Jerry Glanville won 10 games in 1991 but was again met with disappointment in the postseason.

Ranulf de Glanville was the justiciar or chief minister of England (1180–89) under King Henry II who was the reputed author of the first authoritative text on the common law, Tractatus de legibus et consuetudinibus regni Angliae (c. 1188; “Treatise on the Laws and Customs of the Kingdom of

Yiddish literature: Writers in New York: …most important Introspectivist poets were A. Leyeles (pseudonym of Aaron Glanz), Jacob Glatstein (Yankev Glatshteyn), and Y.L. (Yehuda Leyb) Teller. Influenced by current trends in modernism, they rejected the more traditional metre and rhyme of Di Yunge. In their early manifesto, published in their anthology In zikh (1920), Leyeles, Glatstein,…

vitrain, macroscopically distinguishable component, or lithotype, of coal characterized by a brilliant black, glossy lustre and composed primarily of the maceral group vitrinite, derived from the bark tissue of large plants. It occurs in narrow, sometimes markedly uniform bands that are rarely more

blood disease: Disorders of platelet function: Glanzmann thrombasthenia, an inherited disorder associated with a mild bleeding tendency, is due to a deficiency of the platelet glycoprotein IIb–IIIa, which is required for normal platelet function. Bernard-Soulier syndrome, an inherited disorder associated with a pronounced bleeding tendency, is due to a deficiency of…

clarain, macroscopically distinguishable component, or lithotype, of coal that is characterized by alternating bright and dull black laminae. The brightest layers are composed chiefly of the maceral vitrinite and the duller layers of the other maceral groups exinite and inertinite. Clarain exhibits

Henricus Glareanus was a Swiss Humanist, poet, teacher, and music theorist, known especially for his publication Dodecachordon (Basel, 1547). Crowned poet laureate by the Habsburg emperor Maximilian at Cologne (1512), Glareanus established himself briefly at Basel in 1514, where he came under the

pratincole: The common pratincole (Glareola pratincola) has reddish brown underwings and a yellowish throat outlined in black. The black-winged pratincole (G. nordmanni) of the Middle East is called locust bird in Africa, where it winters. Smaller species with less-forked tails and shorter wings are sometimes separated as…

charadriiform: Annotated classification: Family Glareolidae (pratincoles and coursers) Pratincoles short-billed, long-winged, with medium-long legs and forked tails; coursers have longer bills, shorter wings and tail, long legs. Plumage patterned in olive, brown, gray, chestnut, black, white. Legs have rectangular scales front and back. Occipital

pratincole, any of six or seven Old World shorebird species constituting the subfamily Glareolinae of the family Glareolidae, which also includes the coursers. Pratincoles are about 20 cm (8 inches) long and are brown with a white rump; the tail is forked, and the wings are long and pointed.

Glarus, town, capital of Glarus canton, eastern Switzerland, on the left bank of the Linth River, at the northeastern foot of the Glärnisch Massif (with four peaks, rising above 8,900 feet [2,700 metres]), east of Lake Lucerne (Vierwaldstätter See). In 1861 practically the entire town was destroyed

Glarus, canton, east-central Switzerland, comprising the deep, level upper valley of the Linth River, which rises in the southwest in the glaciers of the Tödi (11,857 feet [3,614 metres]), highest of the Glarus Alps, and flows north and northeast to the Walensee (lake). About 190 square miles of

Glarus Alps, segment of the Central Alps lying north of the Vorderrhein River mainly in Glarus canton of east-central Switzerland. The mountains extend east to the Rhine River and north to the Walensee (lake) and Klausen Pass. Many of the peaks are glacier-covered, including the highest, Tödi

Glarus, canton, east-central Switzerland, comprising the deep, level upper valley of the Linth River, which rises in the southwest in the glaciers of the Tödi (11,857 feet [3,614 metres]), highest of the Glarus Alps, and flows north and northeast to the Walensee (lake). About 190 square miles of

Glarus, town, capital of Glarus canton, eastern Switzerland, on the left bank of the Linth River, at the northeastern foot of the Glärnisch Massif (with four peaks, rising above 8,900 feet [2,700 metres]), east of Lake Lucerne (Vierwaldstätter See). In 1861 practically the entire town was destroyed

Glarus Alps, segment of the Central Alps lying north of the Vorderrhein River mainly in Glarus canton of east-central Switzerland. The mountains extend east to the Rhine River and north to the Walensee (lake) and Klausen Pass. Many of the peaks are glacier-covered, including the highest, Tödi

Jacques Derrida: Life and work: Glas (1974) is an experimental book printed in two columns—one containing an analysis of key concepts in the philosophy of Hegel, the other a suggestive discussion of the thief, novelist, and playwright Jean Genet. Although Derrida’s writing had always been marked by a keen interest…

John Glas was a Scottish Presbyterian clergyman denounced by his church for opposing the concept of a national religious establishment. He was the founder of the Glasites (Sandemanians, q.v.). Glas became minister of Tealing Church, Dundee, Angus, in 1719. Some of his parishioners led him to

Glasgow, city, west-central Scotland. It is situated along both banks of the River Clyde 20 miles (32 km) from that river’s mouth on the western, or Atlantic, coast. Glasgow is Scotland’s largest city, and it forms an independent council area that lies entirely within the historic county of

Donald A. Glaser was an American physicist and recipient of the 1960 Nobel Prize for Physics for his invention (1952) and development of the bubble chamber, a research instrument used in high-energy physics laboratories to observe the behaviour of subatomic particles. After graduating from Case

Donald A. Glaser was an American physicist and recipient of the 1960 Nobel Prize for Physics for his invention (1952) and development of the bubble chamber, a research instrument used in high-energy physics laboratories to observe the behaviour of subatomic particles. After graduating from Case

Donald A. Glaser was an American physicist and recipient of the 1960 Nobel Prize for Physics for his invention (1952) and development of the bubble chamber, a research instrument used in high-energy physics laboratories to observe the behaviour of subatomic particles. After graduating from Case

Louis Armstrong: Solo career: …Armstrong’s career was managed by Joe Glaser, who hired Armstrong’s bands and guided his film career (beginning with Pennies from Heaven, 1936) and radio appearances. Though his own bands usually played in a more conservative style, Armstrong was the dominant influence on the swing era, when most trumpeters attempted to…

Milton Glaser was an American graphic designer, illustrator, and cofounder of the revolutionary Pushpin Studio. Glaser graduated from Cooper Union in New York City in 1951 and studied printmaking with Giorgio Morandi in Italy in 1952–53. Glaser founded the graphic design firm Pushpin Studio in New

Ernst Jünger: …novels include Heliopolis (1949) and Gläserne Bienen (1957; The Glass Bees), a disturbing story of a jobless former soldier in an overmechanized world symbolized by artificial bees and marionettes. After 1950 Jünger lived in self-imposed isolation in West Germany while continuing to publish brooding, introspective novels and essays on various…

Glasgow, city, west-central Scotland. It is situated along both banks of the River Clyde 20 miles (32 km) from that river’s mouth on the western, or Atlantic, coast. Glasgow is Scotland’s largest city, and it forms an independent council area that lies entirely within the historic county of

Scarborough, former city (1983–98), southeastern Ontario, Canada. In 1998 it amalgamated with the borough of East York and the cities of Etobicoke, York, North York, and Toronto to form the City of Toronto. Scarborough township (incorporated 1850) was reconstituted as a borough in 1967 and a city

Arthur, village, Douglas and Moultrie counties, east-central Illinois, U.S. It lies about 30 miles (50 km) southwest of Champaign. Founded in 1873 as a railroad switching point, it was originally called Glasgow but was soon renamed for a brother of Robert Hervey, president of the Paris and Decatur

city mission: In Great Britain the Glasgow City Mission (1826) and the London City Mission (1835) both sought to evangelize and rehabilitate the urban poor. Beginning with home visitation and tract distribution by volunteer lay missionaries, the city mission movement expanded into Sunday school, day school, and temperance activities with paid…

traumatic brain injury: …moderate, and severe—based on the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS). The GCS is a 15-point scale designed to measure the patient’s ability to respond to visual, verbal, and motor stimuli after traumatic brain injury. The degree of impairment depends on the extent of damage to critical brain areas. The majority of…

Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, Viscount Northcliffe: …and merged them into the Glasgow Daily Record. He then decided to experiment with a popular national daily in London. The Daily Mail, first published on May 4, 1896, was a sensational success. Announced as “the penny newspaper for one halfpenny” and “the busy man’s daily journal,” it was exactly…

Prestwick: Prestwick’s international airport has grown because of its proximity to Glasgow and its favourable climatic conditions and has generated a significant local aerospace industry. The town also features several coastal golf courses and other leisure facilities. Pop. (2001) 15,170; (2011) 14,900.

Charles Rennie Mackintosh: …chief architectural projects were the Glasgow School of Art (1896–1909), considered the first original example of Art Nouveau architecture in Great Britain; Windyhill, Kilmacolm (1899–1901); Hill House, Helensburgh (1902); the Willow Tea Rooms, Glasgow (1904); and Scotland Street School, Glasgow (1904–06). He was also responsible for two unrealized projects: the…

Glasgow: The contemporary city: …on society and includes the Glasgow Tower. This 459-foot- (140-metre-) high tower is the tallest freestanding structure in Scotland and the only structure of its height in the world that revolves 360 degrees from its base. Scotland’s first public museum, the Hunterian (established in 1807), is housed on the grounds…

Ellen Glasgow was an American novelist whose realistic depictions of life in her native Virginia helped direct Southern literature away from sentimentality and nostalgia. Glasgow, the daughter of a wealthy and socially prominent family with Old Virginia roots on her mother’s side, was educated

Ellen Glasgow was an American novelist whose realistic depictions of life in her native Virginia helped direct Southern literature away from sentimentality and nostalgia. Glasgow, the daughter of a wealthy and socially prominent family with Old Virginia roots on her mother’s side, was educated

University of Glasgow, state-supported university in Glasgow, Scot. The university was founded in 1451 by a bull of Pope Nicholas V on the petition of King James II of Scotland. From 1460, lands granted by Lord Hamilton on High Street formed the site of the university until its removal to the west

glass harmonica, musical instrument consisting of a set of graduated, tuned glass bowls sounded by the friction of wetted fingers on their rims. It was invented by Benjamin Franklin and was derived from the vérillon (musical glasses), a set of glasses, holding different amounts of water and thus

Sheldon Glashow is an American theoretical physicist who, with Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979 for their complementary efforts in formulating the electroweak theory, which explains the unity of electromagnetism and the weak force. Glashow was the son of

Sheldon Glashow is an American theoretical physicist who, with Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam, received the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1979 for their complementary efforts in formulating the electroweak theory, which explains the unity of electromagnetism and the weak force. Glashow was the son of

Sandemanian, member of a Christian sect founded in about 1730 in Scotland by John Glas (1695–1773), a Presbyterian minister in the Church of Scotland. Glas concluded that there was no support in the New Testament for a national church because the kingdom of Christ is essentially spiritual. He also

Cornish literature: …of the Cornish plays was Glasney College in Penryn, founded in 1265 and dissolved in the 1540s. The three plays that constitute the Ordinalia (Eng. trans. Ordinalia) are the finest examples of Middle Cornish literature: Origo mundi (“Origin of the World”) addresses the Creation, the Fall, and the promise of…

glasnost, Soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues. It was instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s and began the democratization of the Soviet Union. Ultimately, fundamental changes to the political structure of the Soviet Union occurred: the power of the Communist

Susan Glaspell was an American dramatist and novelist who, with her husband, George Cram Cook, founded the influential Provincetown Players in 1915. Glaspell graduated in 1899 from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. In college she had published a few short stories in the Youth’s Companion and

Susan Glaspell was an American dramatist and novelist who, with her husband, George Cram Cook, founded the influential Provincetown Players in 1915. Glaspell graduated in 1899 from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa. In college she had published a few short stories in the Youth’s Companion and

The Glass Bead Game, final novel by Hermann Hesse, published in two volumes in 1943 in German as Das Glasperlenspiel and sometimes translated as Magister Ludi. The book is an intricate bildungsroman about humanity’s eternal quest for enlightenment and for synthesis of the intellectual and the

Mikhail Fyodorovich Larionov: …Symbolism, but with the painting Glass (1909) he introduced a nonrepresentational style conceived as a synthesis of Cubism, Futurism, and Orphism. In the Rayonist manifesto of 1913, he asserted the principle of the reduction of form in figure and landscape compositions into rays of reflected light.

glass, an inorganic solid material that is usually transparent or translucent as well as hard, brittle, and impervious to the natural elements. Glass has been made into practical and decorative objects since ancient times, and it is still very important in applications as disparate as building

M. Night Shyamalan: Shyamalan’s later works include Glass (2019), which is the second Unbreakable sequel, and Old (2021). In Knock at the Cabin (2023), a vacationing family is told that one of them must be sacrificed to avert an impending apocalypse. In addition, Shyamalan served as an executive producer of the television…

industrial glass: Beads and microspheres: Solid glass beads and microspheres used in blast cleaners, shot peening, and reflective paints can be made simply by passing finely fritted glass through a hot flame. Hollow microspheres, used mostly as low-density fillers, may be produced by one of many processes.…

The Glass Bead Game, final novel by Hermann Hesse, published in two volumes in 1943 in German as Das Glasperlenspiel and sometimes translated as Magister Ludi. The book is an intricate bildungsroman about humanity’s eternal quest for enlightenment and for synthesis of the intellectual and the

projection screen: …are the mat white, the glass bead, and the lenticular. Mat white is a nonglossy white surface, which may be produced by a flat white paint coating, that provides uniform brightness of a projected image over a wide viewing angle. It is therefore well adapted for projection in a large…

Ernst Jünger: …novels include Heliopolis (1949) and Gläserne Bienen (1957; The Glass Bees), a disturbing story of a jobless former soldier in an overmechanized world symbolized by artificial bees and marionettes. After 1950 Jünger lived in self-imposed isolation in West Germany while continuing to publish brooding, introspective novels and essays on various…

glassblowing, the practice of shaping a mass of glass that has been softened by heat by blowing air into it through a tube. Glassblowing was invented by Syrian craftsmen in the area of Sidon, Aleppo, Hama, and Palmyra in the 1st century bc, where blown vessels for everyday and luxury use were

drawing: Mechanical devices: For portrait drawings, the glass board used into the 19th century had contours and important interior reference points marked on it with grease crayons or soap sticks, so that they could be transferred onto paper by tracing or direct copying. Both processes are frequently used for preliminary sketches for…

Brie Larson: … remake Kong: Skull Island and The Glass Castle, a drama about a dysfunctional family. That year she also made her directorial debut with Unicorn Store, in which she starred as a twentysomething obsessed with unicorns. She later played Carol Danvers, a U.S. Air Force pilot who becomes a superhero, in…

catfish: The glass catfish (Kryptopterus bicirrhus), for example, is a popular aquarium fish of the family Siluridae noted for its slender, highly transparent body; the banjo catfishes (Aspredinidae) of South America are slim fishes with rough, flattened heads and from above somewhat resemble banjos; the electric catfish…

gender wage gap: Vertical or hierarchical segregation: …have argued that a “glass ceiling” prevents or reduces the promotions of women beyond a certain point, especially in fields where they are the statistical minority. Theories of the glass ceiling argue that there are gender-based barriers to higher-status positions that result in men having greater access to these…

industrial glass: Glass ceramics: In some glasses it is possible to bring about a certain degree of crystallization in the normally random atomic structure. Glassy materials that exhibit such a structure are called glass ceramics. Commercially useful glass ceramics are those in which a high density of…

migration: Catadromous fish: …arrive in coastal waters as glass eels and begin to swim upstream in freshwater streams in spring. Their migration upstream is spectacular, as the young fish gather by millions, forming a dense mass several miles long. In freshwater the eels grow to full size, becoming yellow eels. They live as…

acid–base reaction: Dissociation constants in aqueous solution: …electrode (or more commonly a glass electrode, which responds in the same way) together with a reference electrode, commonly the calomel electrode, serves to measure the actual hydrogen ion concentration, or the pH, of the solution. If E is the electromotive force (in volts) observed by the electrode, the equation…

Anne Carson: …but wildly expressive poem, “The Glass Essay,” in which the narrator, while visiting her mother, meditates on a relationship gone bad, on English novelist and poet Emily Brontë (whom she is reading), and on a variety of other interrelated topics. In Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (1998),…

Glass family, fictional family composed of precocious and unhappy adolescents and troubled adults whose lives and philosophies dominated the short stories of J.D. Salinger. The short fiction about the Glass family was originally published in The New Yorker magazine from the late 1940s to the early

materials science: Optical switching: …problem would be to introduce optics inside digital switching machines. Known as free-space photonics, this approach would involve such devices as semiconductor lasers or light-emitting diodes (LEDs), optical modulators, and photodetectors—all of which would be integrated into systems combined with electronic components.

fibreglass, fibrous form of glass that is used principally as insulation and as a reinforcing agent in plastics. Glass fibres were little more than a novelty until the 1930s, when their thermal and electrical insulating properties were appreciated and methods for producing continuous glass

glass frog, (family Centrolenidae), any of a group of tree frogs found in the New World tropics, some species of which have translucent bellies and chests. In glass frogs the viscera are visible, and an observer can see the heart pumping blood into the arteries and food moving through the gut. The

terrarium, enclosure with glass sides, and sometimes a glass top, arranged for keeping plants or terrestrial or semi-terrestrial animals indoors. The purpose may be decoration, scientific observation, or plant or animal propagation. Plants commonly grown in terraria at cool temperatures include

glass harmonica, musical instrument consisting of a set of graduated, tuned glass bowls sounded by the friction of wetted fingers on their rims. It was invented by Benjamin Franklin and was derived from the vérillon (musical glasses), a set of glasses, holding different amounts of water and thus

Philip Johnson: …own residence, known as the Glass House, at New Canaan, Connecticut (1949). The house, which is notable for its severely simple rectilinear structure and its use of large glass panels as walls, owed much to the precise, minimalist aesthetic of Mies but also alluded to the work of 18th- and…

Glass House Mountains: The town of Glass House Mountains, the region’s tourist base, is on the Bruce Highway from Brisbane.

Glass House Mountains, group of 11 principal peaks, the highest of which is Beerwah (1,824 feet [556 m]), in southeastern Queensland, Australia, 45 miles (70 km) north of Brisbane. Composed of volcanic trachyte, they rise abruptly from the coastal plain, and each of the peaks is a national park.

Billy Joel: 52nd Street to River of Dreams: …for album of the year; Glass Houses (1980); and The Nylon Curtain (1982). On the last album, Joel, whose lyrics had previously dealt primarily with romance and slices of life, introduced his first socially conscious songs, “Allentown” and “Goodnight Saigon” (about unemployed steel workers and Vietnam War veterans, respectively).

Stuart Heisler: Films of the 1940s: Arguably better was The Glass Key (1942), a terse adaptation of the 1930 Dashiell Hammett novel, which had previously been filmed in 1935. Heisler’s version featured the pairing of Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake, who had appeared together just months earlier in the hit This Gun for Hire…

glass lizard, any lizard of the genus Ophisaurus in the family Anguidae, so named because the tail is easily broken off. The Eastern glass lizard, Ophisaurus ventralis, occurs in southeastern North America and grows to about 105 cm (41 inches). Together, the lizard’s head and body account for only

The Glass Menagerie, one-act drama by Tennessee Williams, produced in 1944 and published in 1945. The Glass Menagerie launched Williams’s career and is considered by some critics to be his finest drama. Amanda Wingfield lives in a St. Louis tenement, clinging to the myth of her early years as a

Irving Rapper: Later films: of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie was a prestigious assignment, and it was a respectable if uninventive transcription of the stage success. Jane Wyman starred as Laura, a crippled recluse; Gertrude Lawrence as her Southern-belle mother; and Kirk Douglas as the suitor who tries to bring Laura out…

Paul Newman: Directing: …Newman directed his last film, The Glass Menagerie, which was a tasteful adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s classic play; Woodward, John Malkovich, Karen Allen, and James Naughton starred.

Daniel Craig: …the role in 2022 for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Also in 2022 Craig appeared as the title character in a Broadway staging of Macbeth.

painting: Glass paintings: Glass paintings are executed with oil and hard resin or with watercolour and gum on glass sheets. These have been a folk art tradition in Europe and North America and, from the 15th to the 18th century, were regarded as a fine art…

glassfish, any of about 24 small Indo-Pacific fishes of the family Chandidae (or Ambassidae, order Perciformes), most with more or less transparent bodies. Sometimes placed with the snooks and Nile perch in the family Centropomidae, glassfishes are found in freshwater and in the sea along coasts

cliché-verre, print made by placing photographic paper beneath a glass plate on which a design has been scratched through a coating of an opaque substance and then exposing it to light. The fluid lines possible with cliché-verre prints are reminiscent of etched lines. The technique was popular in

silica mineral: Solubility of silica minerals: Known as glass sands, these strata are important economic sources of silica for glass and chemical industries. Quartz-bearing strata are abundant in metamorphic terrains. The reincorporation of free silica into complex silicates and the solution and redeposition of silica into veins is characteristic of such terrains.

Charles Burnett: The Glass Shield (1994), about a black cop (played by Michael Boatman) working with a racist police unit, was Burnett’s first major commercial effort, but it enjoyed only limited success.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Work after World War I: …applied this idea to a glass skyscraper whose transparent facade reveals the building’s underlying steel structure. Both of these building designs were uncompromising in their utter simplicity. Other theoretical studies explored the potentials of concrete and brick construction, and of de Stijl form and Frank Lloyd Wright concepts. Few unbuilt…

glass lizard, any lizard of the genus Ophisaurus in the family Anguidae, so named because the tail is easily broken off. The Eastern glass lizard, Ophisaurus ventralis, occurs in southeastern North America and grows to about 105 cm (41 inches). Together, the lizard’s head and body account for only

glass sponge, any of a class (Hexactinellida, also called Hyalospongiae, or Triaxonia) of sponges characterized by a skeleton that consists of silica spicules (needlelike structures) often united into a delicate geometric network—e.g., that of Venus’s flower basket (q.v.). Glass sponges occur

industrial glass: The glass transformation range: …range of temperatures called the glass transformation range; in Figure 1 it is shown by the smooth departure of line abcg from line abcf, which is known as the equilibrium liquid line. (Not shown in Figure 1 is the glass transition temperature, or Tg; this would be located at the…

industrial glass: The glass transformation range: …on the other hand, the transition from liquid to solid takes place with essentially a discontinuous change in volume. In Figure 1 this abrupt transition is indicated by a sharp drop, within the shaded crystallization region, from the liquid line abcf to the crystal line de. With further cooling, the…

amorphous solid: Distinction between crystalline and amorphous solids: …point, and Tg is the glass transition temperature. In scenario 1 the liquid freezes at Tf into a crystalline solid, with an abrupt discontinuity in volume. When cooling occurs slowly, this is usually what happens. At sufficiently high cooling rates, however, most materials display a different behaviour and follow route…

Jack Arnold: The Glass Web (1953), also shot in 3-D, was a murder mystery starring Edward G. Robinson and John Forsythe.

fibreglass: Fibreglass wool, an excellent sound and thermal insulator, is commonly used in buildings, appliances, and plumbing. Glass filaments and yarns add strength and electrical resistivity to molded plastic products, such as pleasure boat hulls, automobile body parts, and housings for a variety of electronic consumer…

Carter Glass was an American politician who became a principal foe in the Senate of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal in the 1930s. In the main self-educated, having left school at the age of 13, Glass followed his father’s path into journalism, finally becoming proprietor of the Lynchburg

Uziel Gal was an Israeli army officer and inventor who designed the Uzi submachine gun, a compact automatic weapon used throughout the world as a police and special-forces firearm. To escape the Nazi rise to power, Gal moved to England in 1933 and then to Kibbutz Yagur, in northern Palestine, in

Hugh Glass was an American frontiersman and fur trapper who became a folk hero after surviving a bear attack and then traveling hundreds of miles alone to safety. Little is known of Glass’s life before 1823, when he signed up for a fur-trading expedition backed by William Henry Ashley. The group

Ira Glass is an American television and radio personality who was the popular host of a radio program (begun 1995 and later adapted for television) called This American Life. In 1978 Glass talked his way into an internship at National Public Radio (NPR) in Washington, D.C. He quickly became

Canadian literature: Drama: Joanna Glass’s plays, ranging from Artichoke (1975) to Trying (2005), explore intergenerational conflicts and women’s issues. The plays of Judith Thompson, which gain their shape from dreams and the effects of dreams, are visually exciting explorations of the evil force in the human subconscious (The…

John Glas was a Scottish Presbyterian clergyman denounced by his church for opposing the concept of a national religious establishment. He was the founder of the Glasites (Sandemanians, q.v.). Glas became minister of Tealing Church, Dundee, Angus, in 1719. Some of his parishioners led him to

Arthur Erickson: …echoing its surroundings; and the Museum of Glass (2002) in Tacoma, Washington, featuring a 90-foot (27-metre) cone of stainless steel.

Philip Glass is an American composer of innovative instrumental, vocal, and operatic music. Glass studied flute as a boy and enrolled at age 15 at the University of Chicago, where he studied mathematics and philosophy and graduated in 1956. His interest in atonal music drew him on to study