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  The Spectator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Spectator is a British magazine, established in 1828 and published weekly.
Editorship of The Spectator has been a route to high office in the British Conservative Party; past editors include Iain Macleod, Ian Gilmour and Nigel Lawson, all of whom became cabinet ministers.
Like its sister publication The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator is Atlanticist in outlook, favouring close ties with the United States rather than with the European Union, and it is usually supportive of Israel.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Spectator_(1828)   (432 words)

  
 The Spectator - TheBestLinks.com - Columbia University, European Union, Israel, Magazine, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Like Daily Telegraph, The Spectator is Atlanticist in outlook, favouring close ties with the United States rather than with the European Union, and strongly supportive of Israel.
The Spectator was also the title of a daily publication of 1711-14, founded by Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
The Spectator is the name of the student newspapers of both Stuyvesant High School and Columbia University.
www.thebestlinks.com /Spectator.html   (165 words)

  
 Observer | Spectator that should really be a participant
When the Spectator was enjoying one of its intermittent golden ages in the late 1970s, one of the best things about the magazine was the weekly lunch.
That was the one advantage the Spectator always had over the New Statesman, its unsmiling rival on the left: it was not only disrespectful, it wasn't afraid of being funny.
The Spectator, founded in 1828, was strongly Liberal until the Home Rule rupture of 1886, when it became Liberal Unionist, and later Conservative.
observer.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5068025-102273,00.html   (1217 words)

  
 Spectator Chair -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Editorship of ''The Spectator'' is traditionally a route to high office in the British Conservative Party, and past editors include Iain Macleod and Nigel Lawson.
Also it is unreasonable to characterise the spectator and telegraph as "house journals" with out saying who calls them that and giving verifiable proof.
A spectator sport is one that is characterized by the presence of spectators, or watchers, at its matches.
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 Political Studies Association
The Spectator has provided a superb outlet for all those who like their political coverage to be vivid, challenging and occasionally partisan, the latter feature never compromising accuracy.
The dynamism of the magazine reflects the editor and the Spectator has obtained the status of a ‘must-read’ for everyone connected with politics, not merely those who would locate themselves as right-of-centre.
The founder, Robert Stephen Rintoul, said his aim was to produce a magazine of ‘educated radicalism’ and the Spectator originally supported the Whigs and parliamentary reform.
www.psa.ac.uk /awards2003/spectator.htm   (323 words)

  
 History of Magazines Steve's World
The Spectator was supposedly written by members of a small club representing members of the British middle class.
The Spectator later was succeeded by the Guardian.
In 1828 the modern Spectator was established, and today’s weekly version is the oldest continuously published magazine in the English language.
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Among those which also include political and social topics, and are more particularly dealt with under NEWSPAPERS, may be mentioned, the Examiner (i8o8–i881), the Spectator (1828), the Saturday Review (1855), the Scots or National Observer (1888–1897), Outlook (1898), Pilot (1900-1903), and Speaker (1890), which became the Nation.
Addison contributed to the Taller, and together with Steele established and carried on the Spectator (1710–1714), and subsequently the Guardian (1713).
Before this time the daily issue of the Spectator had reached 3000 copies; it then fell to 1600; the price was raised from a penny to twopence, but the paper came to an end in 1714.
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 The Spectator   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Spectator, a weekly periodical, was started by Robert Stephen Rintoul in 1828.
The Spectator agreed with Lord John Russell and his Whig government's attempts to introduce parliamentary reform and supported the 1832 Reform Act.
The journal gradually became more conservative and in the 1880s was a strong opponent of William Gladstone and his proposals for Irish Home Rule.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /Jspectator.htm   (197 words)

  
 The Big Top and the Beast Wagon 1.3
Exotic animals were still unheard of in the circus and it was not until 1828, fourteen years after Astley's death, that the first elephant was seen in the circus arena.
In the archetypal American style, it is said, "the trainer, with his gun blazing and whip cracking, is pitted against roaring animals, apparently on the attack, with the final outcome seemingly in doubt.
The pioneer and leading exponent of the so-called "soft-dressage" technique of animal taming was Carl Hagenbeck, destined to become honoured as the "father of the modern zoo".
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 zoos
Spectators were particularly drawn by those animal activities, such as feeding time, that were likely to produce the most active and energetic exposition of the animal’s wildness or strangeness.
Robert Bogdan notes the link between human and animal display in the rise of the “freak show” in America; he points out that the phrase “living curiosities” was often used during the nineteenth century to refer both to animals and to humans on exhibition (26).
If I am the spectator, then I get to say what it is that I see; the subject of my observation does not have the same privilege or authority, particularly if that subject is not human, or is not defined as human.
www.dickinson.edu /~nicholsa/Romnat/zoos.htm   (3320 words)

  
 Hatshepsut
Yet The Spectator chose, on this of all dates, to suggest the IDF are modern-day Nazi storm troopers.
And of course the second thing Lipmann does through this travesty is to minimise the Holocaust itself and the crimes of the actual Nazis, and thus to betray the memory of those who died.
The Spectator, the oldest continuously published magazine in the English language (since 1828), should have exercised better editorial judgment on this historic occasion.
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 Tsui Serves with 'The Spectator' |
This year was its 175th year in circulation, and to celebrate, they were releasing a special issue with articles dating back to 1828.
On my first day, while attending a top publications meeting, discussion arose that most of the articles for the special issue had to be re-typed, and no one wanted to do it.
In Fall 2001, I applied, through the Reves Center, for the summer 2002 Spectator internship and a study abroad in China.
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 WebRoots Library U.S. Miscellaneous
In the newspapers of the past week it is reported that he, in the first instance, refreshed himself with a hearty meal of phosphorus, which was, at his own request, supplied to him very liberally by several of his visitors, who were previously unacquainted with him.
Ask a spectator what he saw, and he will say that the performer took a spoonful of molten lead, placed it in his mouth, and soon afterwards showed it in a solid state, bearing the exact form and impression of his teeth.
While the paper is being blown upon the phosphorus is ejected on it, although this passes unnoticed by the spectators, and as soon as the continued blowing (3.
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 PERIODICALS - LoveToKnow Article on PERIODICALS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
An incomplete translation of the Spectator was published at Amsterdam in 1714, and many volumes of extracts from the Tatler, Spectator and Guardian were i~ued in France early in the I8th century.
The English Spectator was imitated by J. van Effen in his Misanthrope (1711-1712), written in French, and in the Hollandsche Spectator (1731-1735), in Dutch.
Spain owes her intellectual emancipation to the monk Benito Feyjo, who in 1726 produced a volume of dissertations somewhat after the fashion of the Spectator, but on graver subjects, entitled Teatro critico, which was continued down to 1739.
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 Whateverware Limited
The Spectator was established in 1828, and is the oldest continuously published magazine in the English language.
The Spectator is available free of charge for two weeks.
The Spectator is a weekly magazine and is update each Thursday evening.
homepage.ntlworld.com /k.salaman/whateverware_mobile/live/hollinger/spectator/spectator.html   (229 words)

  
 The Spectator - Icons of England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Reading the weekly political magazine The Spectator provides everything you need to know as a well-rounded, well-heeled Conservative.
Some would say that as a result The Spectator has relinquished its place as a serious talking-shop for Tory ideologues, but others point to a distinguished history of harbouring eccentrics, socialites, idlers and inebriates in its pages.
After all, one of The Spectator’s most famous columnists was Jeffrey Bernard, who was so frequently “unwell”...
www.icons.org.uk /nom/nominations/the-spectator   (162 words)

  
 Mail & Guardian Online:
The Spectator, the famous British conservative weekly (founded 1828), has launched an appeal to send copies of the magazine to Africa, in order to offer spiritual and intellectual sustenance to the benighted citizens of this poor continent.
Archly, The Spectator admits that “the writings of, say, Taki will be a puzzle to, say, the Bushmen of the Kalahari”, but continues: “The intention is not to provide an answer; it is simply to provide a choice.
The Spectator, in some myopic time warp, seems unable to distinguish between the fact that, today, new elites in Africa no longer tend to object so much to free market ideology as to the cloying, colonial-era arrogance that is still frequently dispensed — like milk-bottle tops — along with such prescriptions (and condescending subscriptions).
www.mg.co.za /articledirect.aspx?area=/insight/insight__international&articleid=16515   (752 words)

  
 Spectator, The - Magazines / Newspapers Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
The Spectator is a long standing political and literary magazine which is often provocative and quite frequently entertaingas well.
Published since 1828 its forte is basically politics, the arts and it also has an excellent book review section.
The Spectator itself is a Tory magazine (it is owned by the owner of the Telegraph group), and this is refected in its editorial line (its editor is the excellent Boris Johnson), and the views of its regular columnists,...
www.dooyoo.co.uk /magazines-newspapers/spectator-the   (299 words)

  
 Robert Stephen Rintoul   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In 1828, he went on to become the founder of The Spectator, a provocative weekly magazine which is still published and widely read in Britain today.
The Spectator is now the oldest, continuously published periodical in the English language.
In Robert's day, radicalism meant advocating voting by secret ballot, choosing members of parliament by direct election and the abolition of slavery, all of which were stubbornly opposed by the conservative establishment of his time.
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 The Spectator - who' s taking responsibility
When I received an email from a friend [aka Aunty Sharon] alerting me to an article she had read in Private Eye relating to a columnist in The Spectator, Taki Theodoracopulos who identified fl people as the root of all evil, I can’t deny that I rushed out to do my research.
The Spectator was established in 1828 and Taki [and it seems also by nature], has been writing for the magazine for 25 long, hard years.
The particular article which is causing upset, in Taki’s ‘High Life’ column is entitled ‘Thoughts on thuggery’, which featured in the 11 January issue of The Spectator.
www.blink.org.uk /print.asp?key=1614   (598 words)

  
 Ruskin MP I Notes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Spectator was founded in 1828 (shortly after the Athenaeum) by Robert Stephen Rintoul with financial assistance from the radical M.P., Joseph Hume, a supporter of the Trades Union movement.
Emphasising its impartiality and its moral tone, the Spectator aimed at a family audience.
However, while presenting itself as a politically neutral 'spectator', the Spectator was an advocate of radical causes such as the formation of Trades Unions, Chartism and the campaign against the Corn Laws.
www.lancs.ac.uk /users/ruskin/empi/notes/yspect.htm   (106 words)

  
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Reprints several paragraphs from a petition submitted to Congress in 1828 by residents of the District asking that a scheme for gradual emancipation be implemented.
The Spectator recommends that Southern farmers switch to foodstuffs until the blockade ends so as not to produce an abundance of cotton, which cannot be sold, while suffering from a food shortage.
The editor and proprietor of the Staunton Spectator, Richard Mauzy, announces that the publication of the Spectator has been suspended since publication of its issue dated May 31, 1864, because of the destruction of its offices by the enemy on June 7.
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 The Probert Encyclopaedia - People and Peoples (Sa-Sl)
He was a National-Republican governor of Vermont from 1828 until 1831.
He was born in 1828 at Somerby, and died in 1896.
Sir Richard Steele was an Irish author, founder, editor and, with Addison, chief contributor of The Tatler and The Spectator.
www.fas.org /news/reference/probert/CD.HTM   (8936 words)

  
 Imperial Views
Begun in 1828 and edited by Robert Stephen Rintoul, this weekly news magazine was a "timeless institution" by the twentieth century.
The Spectator's solid reputation was based on excellent writing, good judgement, a liberal-sometimes radical-political stance, and political independence.
Throughout 1837 and 1838, The Spectator reported on "the Canada question" which became a leading issue in British politics when armed rebellion erupted in November 1837.
www.library.yale.edu /~mpowell/aImperialViews.html   (4350 words)

  
 San Antonio Fire Department - History 1848-1900
In the early years, every individual available to lend a hand scurried to the area where smoke or a reddish glow in the sky indicated a conflagration.
As time passed and volunteer fire companies modernized to the point where the entire community no longer was needed to fight a blaze, the sound of the alarm invited everyone to the fire so that, at best, they could become spectators at a very exciting sporting event.
The first fire of any significance occurred in 1828 when the San Fernando Cathedral was destroyed.
www.sanantonio.gov /safd/History/History_1848_1900.asp   (6561 words)

  
 The Spectator's 175th Birthday | MetaFilter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
There's a special issue out - only five free articles on the web, of which the Graham Greene competition is probably the funniest - but The Spectator itself (my favourite comic in the whole wide world, I have to say) is still in fine fettle.
The highlight of my writing career so far is the letter I had published in the Spectator last year and the subsequent hatemail I received...
Jeremy Clarke, who couldn't be more unassuming, is the down-and-out columnist who writes the "Low Life" column in The Spectator and is the worthy successor to Jeffrey Bernard.
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 Whitley Strieber's Unknown Country
The September 22, 2001 issue of the British weekly magazine The Spectator is filled with insightful articles about the recent terrorist attacks.
But due to our government’s embarrassment and even shame, we may not hear the truth from our own writers, so it’s important that we continue to turn to those in other countries, who may be more willing to speak the truth.
Its politics are conservative and free-spirited, and if you consider that an impossible combination, you should try a subscription to one of the English speaking world’s most literate news magazines.
www.unknowncountry.com /diary?id=76   (1404 words)

  
 POPE, ALEXANDER (1688–... - Online Information article about POPE, ALEXANDER (1688–...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
paper (Spectator, No. 253) was not unmixed praise.
Messiah," was printed as No. 378 of the Spectator.
When the Rape of the Lock was published, Addison, who is said to have praised the poem highly to Pope in private, dismissed it in the Spectator with two sentences of patronizing faint praise to the young poet, and, coupling it with See also:
encyclopedia.jrank.org /POL_PRE/POPE_ALEXANDER_16881744_.html   (5279 words)

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