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  • Cavell's execution created an international uproar against the Germans and the British government used her martyrdom as a recruiting tool.

    Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

  • Many of the captured Allied soldiers who were treated at Berkendael subsequently succeeded in escaping - with Cavell's active assistance - to neutral Holland.

    Archive 2008-07-27 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Cavell's case received significant sympathetic worldwide press coverage, most notably in Britain and the then-neutral U.S. Such coverage served to harden current popular opinion regarding supposed routine German barbarity in occupied Belgium.

    Edith Cavell de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Many of the captured Allied soldiers who were treated at Berkendael subsequently succeeded in escaping - with Cavell's active assistance - to neutral Holland.

    Edith Cavell de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • In part, this is because Cavell's linking of film to skepticism seems inadequately grounded, while his account of skepticism as a live option for contemporary philosophy is based on a highly idiosyncratic reading of the history of modern philosophy.

    Philosophy of Film Wartenberg, Thomas 2008

  • Cavell's case received significant sympathetic worldwide press coverage, most notably in Britain and the then-neutral U.S. Such coverage served to harden current popular opinion regarding supposed routine German barbarity in occupied Belgium.

    Archive 2008-07-27 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Nonetheless, Cavell's interpretations of individual films 'encounter with skepticism are highly suggestive and have influenced many philosophers and film scholars with the seriousness with which they take film.

    Philosophy of Film Wartenberg, Thomas 2008

  • I haven't read Cavell's book, although I've been meaning to do so; it was the remarriage plot itself that I was thinking of.

    Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2007

  • Nurse Edith Cavell's final words before her execution in 1915 could serve as an epitaph for it: 'patriotism is not enough'.

    Orwell and Patriotism 1992

  • Cavell's letter, in which she characterizes her own work as a "criticism of the libido theory," provides additional support for the view that their attempt to counter what they see as a slander on womankind leads revisionists to scrap the essential psychoanalytic ideas.

    An Exchange on Freud and Women Cavell, Marcia 1974

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