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Dean And Me

Dean And Me

Jerry Lewis; James Kaplan

Macmillan
2014
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For ten years after WWII, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis weren't only the most successful show business act in history, they were history. Starting as a fill-in for another act in Atlantic city, their improvised, anarchic routines soon sold out all the greatest venues in America. They made films, they made millions. They made a legend. But amidst the dazzling success and the late night laughter, tensions developed between the reserved straight man, Martin, and the manic goon, Lewis. When the duo, who had reinvented the comic double-act, split acrimoniously in 1956 they didn't speak to one another for the next 20 years. This is an intimate memoir of those years of fame and success by one of the only surviving legends of the rat-pack era. Jerry Lewis remembers everything - the casinos, the mobsters, the endless pranks, the cocktails, the women, the meteoric rise to stardom. Here for the first and only time and in his own inimitable, wise-cracking voice he re-lives his days of glory with Dean Martin and gives a frank account of their relationship and break-up. A hilarious ride and heart-breaking, cautionary tale of what fame and fortune can do to love and friendship.
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Dean Winternitz: Yale Medical School's Passionate Humanist

Dean Winternitz: Yale Medical School's Passionate Humanist

Priscilla W. Norton

CREATESPACE
2011
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MILTON WINTERNITZ Dr. Milton Winternitz, Dean of Yale Medical School from 1920 -1935, was confident of his own wisdom and right-thinking. He hoped to turn that New Haven school from a local medical training center to the national and international reasearch institution it has become. He simplified the educational program, certain that graduate students, freed from compulsory attendance at lectures, would learn for themselves. Winter, as he liked to be called, strengthen the requirement that students carry out a research project before graduation. He established the nursing school, the psychiatry department, supported the epidemiology and public health activities. Most importsaant, he brough about a full-time salaried academic faculty. But his real love, his enthusiasm, lay in humanizing the medical curriculum, in the 1920s beginning to verge on the purely scientific. In his short-lived Institute for Human Relations, he hoped to bring Yale Law and Divinity schools down to the medical area, and to encourage a far more humanuistic approach to medical trainiung. If he had succeeded, medical students would become science-based but fully aware of the psychological and social origin of much of their complaints. But Winternitz was a Jew in a Christian society., In order to fulfill his ambitions and remain at his post, he yielded to the prejudices of the time in limiting the admission of Jews, Italian Catholics, and Afr0- Americans to the medical school.. For that he has been vilified, and only in this 1910 200th Anniversary celebration, are his contributions finally getting the recognition they have long deserved. Here we present a bio-memoir of this remarkable man.
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Dean John Colet of St Paul's

Dean John Colet of St Paul's

Arnold Jonathan

Bloomsbury Academic
2020
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This is an important and original biography of John Colet, the leading humanist theologian in early Tudor England and the founder of St Paul's School in London. The facts of John Colet's life, spanning the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, appear to portray a successful, humanist clerical reformer, active in London on the eve of the English Reformation. In reality, as a cleric, John Colet was neither successful nor a reformer, nor were the reforms he attempted particularly welcome. His greatest achievement, and lasting legacy, was the foundation of his school. Thus, in the sphere of Christian humanist education, Colet was a success. However, in all his dealings, Colet considered the spiritual life to be of paramount importance and his ultimate aim was the deification of sinful humanity, not just for a few exceptional individuals, but for the entire Church. In this respect, Colet's ecclesiastical vision did not effect any significant change in the early sixteenth-century Church, although it nevertheless pointed to the possibility of a more spiritual, unified and holy Church. Colet was a passionate and pious man who does not fall easily into any historical, intellectual or ecclesiastical category. Ultimately, he escapes identification with any other set of contemporaneous idealists because his vision was his own. This study offers a timely re-assessment of the life of a complex religious figure of pre-Reformation England.
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Dean the Pirate King

Dean the Pirate King

James Wheat

Trafford Publishing
2018
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This book is about a boy who takes on an adventure every time he goes into the bathtub. Who knows what the little boy named Dean will be tomorrow night? Illustrations by: Michael Blumenthal
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Heaven-Bent HUMOR: The DEAN Adventures

Heaven-Bent HUMOR: The DEAN Adventures

Dean Burkey

Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2013
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Heaven-Bent HUMOR: The DEAN AdventuresNEWLY UPDATED With a new entry too: "Does That Make Me a Hero? Or a Villain?" Wouldn't you rather have your humor be Heaven-Bent than bent the other way? Whether Dean backpacks with Bigfoot in Bermuda, time-travels with movie stars, or inadvertently destroys worlds beyond ours, this guy knows how to have fun Enjoy his crazy, quite possibly insane, adventures What will Dean do with the billions he makes by his books? Find out inside And encourage billions of others to do so too. Especially if they buy them all and pay full price Inventive, funny, suspenseful, each story provides a mini-vacation away from the burdens of your day. So get your ticket to fun now; and start reading. Destination: Comedy Guaranteed to make you laugh.* Before you buy this book, take a Look Inside Check out the Table of Contents Depending on how you define adventure, the actual "adventures" don't start until "The Perfect Plan: Foiled " or "My O.B.E.". We included a few "non-adventurous" pieces to lay the groundwork for the adventures, or because they related somehow, or we just thought they were funny. Or simply to pad the book to make it look more impressive Although most of these crazy, intrepid, and entertaining tales stand alone, they still tie together to build to a shock ending. SnippetsProof that this is a work of fiction: I did not put peanut butter on the brownies. If you see me eating a brownie without first applying peanut butter, that is not me, but an evil clone, an alien cyborg, or a shape-shifter who must be destroyed Or given a jar of peanut butter. Don't forget to wrap your head in aluminum foil too, so those intergalactic fiends can't read your mind. Otherwise, no one else in the field of extra-terrestrial relations will take you seriously.The pinwheel hat is optional. My secret sources on this matter are uncharacteristically convoluted and unclear about the exact details. But why would somebody post something on the Internet, if it's not true? The "handsomest" of them resembled Bigfoot. Only with ZZ Top beards and a Snidely Whiplash mustache. Strange race indeed.And that was just their women I don't want to be remembered for that Instead, remember me for my sense of humor, thoughtfulness, and great legs. Best of all would be being remembered for being Katharine McPhee's trophy husband They had the dumbest entertainment too Some dude in a designer pinstriped suit waved a pocket watch back and forth while chanting repeatedly: "You will do as I say. You will do as I say." Never thought I'd wind up in jail.An asylum? Sure. It's a such crazy world, you'd be nuts not to go insane. Don't fall in love with a psycho; she'll only break your heart. Or cut it out and feed it to the pigeons. I'm too exciting for most women. The majority of them want someone boring. It's true. Their date ads say they don't want men who play games.But I say, what's wrong with Pictionary?It's like charades on paper Good times to be sure. But if Andy Warhol's words are true, about each person getting his/her own 15 minutes of fame, I've still got another 14 minutes and 57 seconds coming -----Keywords: Comedy, Fiction, Action, Adventure, Science Fiction, Suspense, Fantasy, Humor, Humour, Satire, Parody, Spoof, Thrills, Jokes, Elvis, Jacko, Bigfoot, Abominable Snowman, Loch Ness, Nessie, Funny, Fun, Supermodels, Chocolate, Shock Ending. * Each entry's like a mini-vacation to Funny Town. You never know with whom Dean will hang out. Elvis, Jacko, Bigfoot, Nessie, and more So scroll up; and Click the Buy Button Now
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