Sullivan : Sir Arthur (Seymour) (1842-1900): Irish composer who, with William Schwenk Gilbert (q.v.), created a distinctive comic operetta. Gilbert’s satire & verbal ingenuity with Sullivan’s resourceful melodies & sense of parody brought the “Gilbert & Sullivan” shows a lasting international acclaim.
... wisest of advisors. It has verily been said that the world would not have heard of Helen Keller if Anne Sullivan had not been there. Anne Sullivan gave the best years of her life to Helen, seldom leaving her side until her pupil had graduated from college. The principles of teaching that Anne Sullivan evolved through her association with Helen are applicable universally. The fundamental point was to... Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan Piercing the Veils of Darkness Introduction The story of Helen Keller's formative years is a wonderful example of the peculiar alchemy wrought by the coming together of perfectly matched teacher and pupil, each fulfilling the other. Anne Mansfield Sullivan was a young, aspiring teacher when she met and started working... marvellous story. More than any other, the person who made this possible was Helen's teacher, Anne Sullivan. It is difficult to decide which of the two was more remarkable: Helen Keller, the brilliant and exemplary pupil who overcame seemingly insurmountable odds to achieve learning: or Anne Sullivan, the totally self-giving and self-effacing teacher, who for close to a decade and a half devoted every ...
... imbibed from his own teachers, Sullivan and Chiang, form the foundation of the teacher in Jonathan. Chiang speaks to his students, guiding and "exhorting them never to stop their learning and their practising and their striving to understand more of the perfect invisible principle of all life. " 6 The evolutionary process of learning finds a lucid exposition in Sullivan s words: 1. Ibid., p. 25... about flight in this place as there had been in the life behind him. But with a difference. Here were gulls who thought as he thought. " He wonders why there are not more of them, and his instructor, Sullivan, explains: "The only answer I can see, Jonathan, is that you are pretty well a one-in-a-million bird. Most of us came along ever so slowly.... But you, Jon, learned so much at one time that you didn't... instructor, and his own way of demonstrating love was to give something of the truth that he had seen to a gull who asked only a chance to see truth for himself. [ Jonathan s instructor, Sullivan, is doubtful about his idea of going back to the Flock. But Jonathan does go back and finds Fletcher Lynd Seagull, another young Outcast.] Fletcher Lynd Seagull was still quite young, but already ...
... that the differences in measurement arise from the state of the observer's mind and occur because he is making use of his consciousness. On this point there is a consensus of scientific authorities. Sullivan, in his article The Physical Nature of the Universe in An Outline of Modern Knowledge (page 99), writes: "It is hardly necessary to say that by referring to an 'observer' we do not imply that... some equations got by analysis from the interval happen to have exactly the same number of components as matter, and these components are put together in exactly the same way. The query, as stated by Sullivan, inevitably occurs: "May we not affirm that these components which express features of the space-time continuum are identical with density, stress and the like?" That is to say, what we usually name... measuring instruments by nature's phenomena either as they are or as adapted to particular ends in the laboratory. The observer in Einstein's physics plays the same role as in classical physics. To quote Sullivan: "we must not interpret the word 'observable' too narrowly. It would be more correct to substitute for 'observable' 'definable in terms of physical Page 69 processes'. If an entity ...
... you may get a broken nose under the impact of your opponent's skull. The famous English king of the ring, John Sullivan — in the good old days when gloves were regarded as effeminate —went through a hell of a bad time in France when a Gallic champion challenged him to a boxing bout. Sullivan was surprised at receiving furious Page 44 yet most skilfully placed kicks all over his... drive a solid punch home to his challenger's chin and brought the non-stop flurry of flying feet to undignified rest flat on the floor. I do not know if Sullivan provoked the fight by sneezing at the name of Racine. It is not likely, for Sullivan may not have been aware that a dramatic poet named Racine existed or perhaps even that a dramatic poet like Shakespeare existed. But Frenchmen are more ...
... lacking to persuade us that we are on the right track. They are noticeable in connection with the invariant "interval" in space-time which is the absolute of the relative distances and durations. Sullivan, in his Aspects of Science (Second Series) puts the case very well. "From this relation, the interval," he writes, "various complicated mathematical expressions may be built up by purely mathematical... obey the same equations? The suggestion is that the physical quantities and the geometrical properties are the same thing ... " Their being the same and yet seeming different is explained by Sullivan in the immediately next phrase in terms that are a little doubtful. He states the above suggestion in other words as "that what we call matter is, indeed, only the way in which our minds perceive ...
... showing that the suggestion of the supra-physical or occult is as strongly ascribable to Newtonian gravitation as to Einstein's curving of planetary motion by means of the "curved" medium around. Sullivan on page 77 of Limitations of Science develops the hint dropped by Bolton, in the passage already quoted, that Newtonian gravitation is not hampered by any intervening agent: "No- thing acts as a... body held up in the air weighs just as much however many bodies we interpose between it and the surface of the earth. The pull of the earth on it is not affected in the slightest." A page earlier Sullivan casts into relief another strange aspect of the gravitational force as conceived by Newton: "It seems to act instantaneously. Light, as we know, takes time to travel. So does every other form of radiant... century of materialism swore, it is curious to note that Einstein's first criticism of the latter was on the ground that there was too much metaphysics in the ideas of absolute space and absolute time. Sullivan well remarks in the introduction to his Three Men Discuss Relativity: "We can say that changes in the scientific scheme have gradually converged towards a system of interpretation where none but ...
... × Wilfried, The Mother , pp. 88-89. × Facsimile in W.M. Sullivan, The Dawning of Auroville, p. 46. × Satprem, Mère II, p. 547. ... × The Mother, op.cit. p. 199. × W.M. Sullivan, op. cit., pp. 53-54. × The Mother on Auroville , p. 16. ...
... is he not part of the Government established by law? So we will merely say that the right place for this truly comic Council of Notables with its yet more comic functions is an opera by Gilbert and Sullivan and not an India seething with discontent and convulsed by the throes of an incipient revolution. As to the "enlarged" Legislative Councils, we can say little. Mr. Morley does not enlighten us ...
... Mataram called them "comic opera" reforms, and witheringly pointed out that "the right place for this truly comic Council of Notables with its yet more comic functions is an opera by Gilbert and Sullivan and not an India seething with discontent and convulsed by the throes of an incipient revolution". 37 Sri Aurobindo returned to the theme in later issues and poured ridicule both on Mr. Morley ...
... 14, 1879. To have lived in the time of a man like him has been a rare privilege. For, there is not the slightest doubt that he is the most original thinker in the whole history of science. }.W.N. Sullivan perhaps hits the mark when he says that while we can imagine Galileo's and Newton's work done by other geniuses we find it extremely difficult to believe anyone would have discovered relativity theory ...
... Auroville took many copies of Matrimandir— The Mother's Truth and Love from me. Some years later she wanted to get a book published in Auro Press, entitled The Spirit of Auroville . Bhaga and Bill Sullivan gave me the following typescript: The Spirit of Auroville—550 pages. All Mother's messages and conversations about Auroville, arranged chronologically, with some brief introductions about the context ...
... nature and communion with nature to learn from her. We have then taken a text from Rousseau which speaks of "holding the hand of the pupil", and texts from Helen Keller about the relations between Sullivan her teacher and pupil Helen herself. We have also taken texts from Montessori and from Pestalozzi. We have also spoken of philosophy of education from B. Russel and spoken of the Brazilian educationist ...
... and textile. "Time was, not more distant than a century and a half ago, when Bengal was much more wealthy than was Britain," wrote the British historian William Digby in 1901. Already in 1853, John Sullivan, Collector of Coimbatore and founder of Ootaca-mund, had told the East India Company that he was in favour of returning a large part of Indian territory to native rulers "upon principles of justice ...
... sparkling youthful energy. They immediately made me feel as though we were old friends and that’s the way it remains. General Tewari’s presence evoked in my memory a song from one of Gilbert and Sullivan’s famous light operas called “The Pirates of Penzance”. The song goes: “I’m the Very Proper Model of a Modern Major General with Information Vegetal and Animal and Mineral. I know the Kings of England ...
... to take down to dinner a somewhat pretentious lady of the newly rich who, knowing nothing of music, posed as one of its patrons. Page 300 "Oh, Mr. Gilbert," said she, "your friend Sullivan's music is really too delightful. It always reminds me of dear Batch (meaning Bach). Do tell me, what is Batch doing just now? Is he composing anything?" "Well, no," replied Gilbert, in serious ...
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