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First Person Singular (other)
First Person Singular may refer to: Literature * ''First Person Singular'' (short story collection), a 2020 short story collection by Haruki Murakami * ''First Person Singular'' (play), a play by Lewis Grant Wallace * "First Person Singular", a short story by Eric Frank Russell published in '' Deep Space'' (1954) Film and television * '' First Person Singular: Pearson – The Memoirs of a Prime Minister'', a 1973–1975 Canadian television miniseries * ''First Person Singular'', the original title of ''The Mercury Theatre on the Air'' radio series * ''First Person Singular'', a 1969–1975 BBC Scotland interview series presented by Mary Marquis * ''First Person Singular: I. M. Pei'', a 1997 PBS documentary about I. M. Pei See also * First person singular, referring to the grammatical person In linguistics, grammatical person is the grammatical distinction between deictic references to participant(s) in an event; typically, the distinction is between the speaker ( first per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Person Singular (short Story Collection)
is a collection of eight stories by Haruki Murakami. It was first published on 18 July 2020 by Bungeishunjū. As its title suggests, all eight stories in the book are told in a first-person singular narrative. Contents Synopsis "Cream" The first-person narrator accepts a sudden invitation to a piano recital from an old acquaintance. On a Sunday afternoon in November, he travels to the recital hall, located at the top of a mountain in Kobe. When he arrives, the gate is locked and the parking lot empty. No one responds and there seems to be no signs of a recital set to take place. Retiring to a small park nearby, he later meets an old man who implores him to visualize a circle that has many centers but no circumference. The man tells him that when you finally achieve such difficult things as reaching an understanding of something you once couldn't, it becomes the cream of your life, the wikt:crème de la crème, crème de la crème. The narrator closes his eyes once again ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
First Person Singular (play)
''First Person Singular'' is a play by Lewis Grant Wallace. The play tells the story of a convoluted affair between an eminent old novelist and a resentful younger writer. The work premiered at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End of London on 4 February 1952. The cast included Irene Handl as Miss Oakley and Rachel Gurney Rachel Gurney (5 March 1920 – 24 November 2001) was an English actress. She began her career in the theatre towards the end of World War II and then expanded into television and film in the 1950s. She remained active, mostly in television a ... as Mabel. Sources Irene Handl at filmreference.com 1952 plays {{1950s-play-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deep Space (collection)
''Deep Space'' is a collection of short science-fiction stories by the British writer Eric Frank Russell. It was first published by Fantasy Press in 1954 in an edition of 2,257 copies. The stories originally appeared in the magazines ''Thrilling Wonder Stories'', '' Other Worlds'', ''Astounding'', ''Galaxy Science Fiction'', ''Imagination'' and ''Blue book''. Contents * "First Person Singular" * "The Witness" * "Last Blast" * "Homo Saps" * "The Timid Tiger" *A Little Oil * "Rainbow’s End" * "The Undecided" * "Second Genesis" Reception Anthony Boucher praised the selection of stories, saying they had been "chosen so as to form a cohesive series of comments upon human (and extra-human) relationships in space flight and colonization." P. Schuyler Miller declared ''Deep Space'' to be "one of the most satisfying one-author collections of the past year, and one of Fantasy Press' all-time best selections."Miller, P. Schuyler. "The Reference Library," ''Astounding Science-Fiction'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pearson – The Memoirs Of A Prime Minister
Pearson may refer to: Organizations Education * Lester B. Pearson College, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada *Pearson College (UK), London, owned by Pearson PLC *Lester B. Pearson High School (other) Companies * Pearson plc, a UK-based international media conglomerate, best known as a book publisher ** Pearson Education, the textbook division of Pearson PLC *** Pearson-Longman, an imprint of Pearson Education * Pearson Yachts Places *Pearson, Georgia, a US city * Pearson, Texas, an unincorporated community in the US * Pearson, Victoria, a ghost town in Australia * Pearson, Wisconsin, an unincorporated community in the US *Toronto Pearson International Airport, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada *Pearson Field, in Vancouver, Washington, US *Pearson Island, an island in South Australia which is part of the Pearson Isles *Pearson Isles, an island group in South Australia Other uses *Pearson (surname) *Pearson correlation coefficient, a statistical measure known as Pearson's ''r' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Mercury Theatre On The Air
''The Mercury Theatre on the Air'' is a radio series of live radio dramas created and hosted by Orson Welles. The weekly hour-long show presented classic literary works performed by Welles's celebrated Mercury Theatre repertory company, with music composed or arranged by Bernard Herrmann. The series began July 11, 1938, as a sustaining program on the CBS Radio network, airing Mondays at 9 pm ET. On September 11, the show moved to Sundays at 8 pm. The show made headlines with its "The War of the Worlds (1938 radio drama), The War of the Worlds" broadcast on October 30, one of the most famous broadcasts in the history of radio due to the panic it allegedly caused, after which the Campbell Soup Company signed on as sponsor. ''The Mercury Theatre on the Air'' made its last broadcast on December 4 of that year, and ''The Campbell Playhouse (radio series), The Campbell Playhouse'' began five days later, on December 9. Production After the theatrical successes of the Mercury Theatre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Marquis
Mary Elizabeth Marquis (born 11 March 1934), born as Mary Elizabeth Caughie, is a former leading interviewer and presenter on BBC Scotland from the mid-1960s, and became the face of the network's evening news programme ''Reporting Scotland'' until 1988, including the whole of the 1970s '' Nationwide'' era when input from BBC broadcasters based at the corporation's other studios around the UK contributed to a national programme. Early life Marquis was born in Glasgow. She trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow. Career She joined Border TV as an in-vision continuity announcer and presenter in 1961. She was the first person seen on screen at Border, opening the station's transmission with the words "Good evening and welcome to Border Television" when it went on air for the first time at 5:45pm on Friday 1 September 1961. Two years later she moved to BBC Scotland, travelling all over Scotland to interview people for ''A Quick Look Round'' (and later f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |