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The various moods of these literary backward looks will also occupy us : they range from the buoyant optimism of Pickwick to the biting satire of Vanity Fair to the measured , scholarly realism of Middlemarch . While the paragraph above outlines the minimum work I expect you to do on the listserv , you are encouraged to respond to one another and to initiate discussions as often as you wish . The word " diversity " is another way of saying " incusivity , " explained Kenneth Finkel , deputy director of the Atwater Kent Museum . A long-nosed man had a little group about him , and he was telling some story over and over again ; and another man , little and fat and wide-eyed , sought to capture the long-nosed man 's audience with some relation in which a key figured . Over the course of the term , we will watch a variety of writers struggling to make the novel form serve their artistic goals , their economic needs , and in some cases , their political ends . Prouds - - Strong track record of funding to support preservation ; responsiveness to the community ; willingness to take risks ; that leaders of the philanthropic community are talking with each other . However , Mayer said Merck has persuaded state judges in " a fairly large number " of such cases to transfer them to federal court , arguing the second defendant is not a bona fide target.Cases filed in Merck 's home state of New Jersey , where about half the existing cases are filed , cannot legally be moved to federal court.In Atlantic City , where Merck is wrapping up its defense against a postal worker who blames his heart attack on Vioxx , a cardiology expert on Monday said in testimony that there is no evidence someone who took Vioxx so briefly was at increased risk of a heart attack.Plaintiff Frederick Humeston , 60 , of Boise , Idaho , took the painkiller for about two months before the heart attack on Sept. 18 , 2001 . The house , the vicar said , was old - - but there needed no vicar to tell Oleron that ; it was reputed ( 0leron pricked up his-ears ) to be haunted - - but there were few old houses about which some such rumour did not circulate among ignorant ; and the deplorable lack of Faith of the modern world , the vicar thought , did not tend to dissipate these superstitions . For another thing , he could not yet think of that letter of Barrett 's , nor of a little scene that had followed it , without a mounting of colour and a quick contraction of the brow . You often learn from yourself as you speak , and you will frequently produce ideas and theories as a class by building on and occasionally challenging each other 's comments . We will focus our attention on some of the major fiction of the period , attending to issues of style and form as well as to how the novel participates in Victorian debates about poverty , sexuality , morality , change , and imperialism . For the handwriting of the two letters that Oleron , stealing noiselessly one June day into his kitchen to rid his sitting-room of an armful of fetid and decaying flowers , had seen on the floor within his door , had had no more meaning for him than if it had belonged to some dim and far-away dream . Contempt , no doubt , had been at the bottom of it , but that did n't matter : the pestering creature had been allowed to go unharmed . Dickens took full advantage of this grisly opportunity , hiring another illustrator and turning what was once a picture-centered project that placed him firmly in the background into a text-centered enterprise centered on himself . This way , you will be able to do many things : 1 ) conduct discussions outside of class , 2 ) ask for information on what we did in class if you miss a meeting , 3 ) test paper ideas out on each other , 4 ) brainstorm regarding the final exam , etc. He could n't understand the extraordinary mess of dead flowers there seemed to be everywhere ; he could n't understand why there should be police officers in his room ; he could n't understand why one of these should be sent for a four-wheeler and a stretcher ; and he could n't understand what heavy article they seemed to be moving about in the kitchen - - his kitchen . Each theatre was exclusively leased by a manager , often an " Actor-Manager , " who established a reputation for his theatre ( the actor-managers were most often men ) through the style of his acting , the physical splendor of the production , and the type of dramatic entertainment offered . The actors on stage embodied these social ambiguities . While the paragraph above outlines the minimum contribution I expect you to make to the weblog , you are encouraged to respond to one another and to initiate discussions as often as you wish . There were no signs of a struggle , and nothing had been stolen . There will be no make-up quizzes . " You have to set the right priorities - - your priorities and the priorities of your community , " said Paul Meyer , executive director of the Morris Arboretum.Similarly , it 's important that each institution set its priorities in the context of the larger community . Enough is laid on slavery , without fathering upon it these creations and contributions of Sir Walter .