Admirers like Soellner point out that Shakespeare's text has Timon neither drink wine nor eat meat: only water and roots are specifically mentioned as being in his diet, which is also true of Apemantus, the philosopher.

Admirers of his works formed groups of Friends of St Martin which later became known as Martinists.

Admirers praise the force of Trudeau's intellect, and they salute his political acumen in preserving national unity against Quebec separatists, suppressing a violent revolt, and establishing the Charter of Rights and Freedoms within Canada's constitution.

Admirers of the Italian Communist Party leader Palmiro Togliatti, they became known as " the Italians.

Admirers from all quarters of Europe visited him there and he was surrounded by devoted friends, notably developing a lasting association with the great publisher Johann Froben.

Admirers of Brown's music, including Miles Davis and other jazz musicians, began to cite Brown as a major influence on their own styles.

Admirers of Mao Zedong can frequently be found holding “ The Little Red Book ” gripped with their right hand waving it over their heads to show joy, or cries of condemnation.

Admirers soon came to La Grange, including Charles James Fox.

After having released a few limited edition 12 " singles in Germany under various project names ( e. g. The Alliance, The Admirers on his own label " Freshline Records " ( founded 1988 by Frank " Quickmix " Hassas & O-Jay ), their first major breakthrough came in December 1989 when a cover of the Technotronic hit " Pump Up The Jam " went to # 16 on the German singles chart.

Admirers hold Peron in esteem for his administration's anti-imperialism, and non-alignment, as well as its socially progressive initiatives.

Admirers of the Spartans typically praise their valor and success in war, their " laconic " austerity and self-restraint, their aristocratic and virtuous ways, the stable order of their political life and their constitution, with its tripartite mixed government.

Admirers however praised his ability to shrug off such attacks and his barrister's talent for making impromptu replies.

Admirers of her work included her close friend G. B. Stern ( with whom she collaborated on two books about Jane Austen ), Thomas Hardy, and Noël Coward.

Admirers say she began to impose herself in cabinet and won some notable victories, leading Morrison to complain, " sometimes she is a bit of a nuisance to us ", but critics contend that she missed a unique opportunity for a radical egalitarian reform of the education system.

Admirers of F. Scott Fitzgerald will long remember his magnificent renditions of passages from The Great Gatsby on the NBC program devoted to Fitzgerald in August 1955, part of the " Biography in Sound " series on great American authors.

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Admirers of Andreski's work would probably also appreciate the work of U. S. anthropologists Edward T. Hall and Marvin Harris.

") Among the writers frequenting the club were Robert A. Heinlein, Emil Petaja, Fredric Brown, Henry Kuttner, Leigh Brackett, and Jack Williamson.

Heinlein won Hugo Awards for four of his novels ; in addition, fifty years after publication, three of his works were awarded " Retro Hugos "— awards given retrospectively for years in which Hugo Awards had not been awarded.

However, Heinlein was a vocal proponent of the notion that juvenile readers were far more sophisticated and able to handle more complex or difficult themes than most people realized.

It has been suggested that the strongly hierarchical and anti-individualistic " Bugs " in Starship Troopers were meant to represent the Chinese or Japanese, but Heinlein claimed to have written the book in response to " calls for the unilateral ending of nuclear testing by the United States.

In Number of the Beast, Robert A. Heinlein portrayed an SCA tournament where live weapons were used and the battles actually fought to the ' death '.

Heinlein also assumes that the Russians are running China, " The Russian bureaucrats had even cleaned up China to the point where bubonic plague and typhus were endemic rather than epidemic .".

In the first two decades of his writing career, Heinlein averaged writing a novel every year, of which nearly all were intended for young adult readers.

Heinlein, writing in the days when computers were big, clunky, and rare, did not fully explore their potential in this story, which he did in later stories.

McConnell's experiments were later discredited, but ideas drawn from them were used in science fiction by several authors, including Heinlein, Larry Niven, Joe Haldeman and Dean Koontz.

Heinlein made use of his engineering expertise to bring a sense of realism to the story ; for a time during World War II, he was a civilian aeronautics engineer working at a laboratory where pressure suits were being developed for use at high altitudes.

Many well-known science fiction writers were to follow, including Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Clifford Simak, plus Robert A. Heinlein who wrote The Puppet Masters in 1953.

Decades before the first computers utilizing this technology were invented, Robert A. Heinlein gave an example of how they might be used in his novel Stranger In A Strange Land ( 1961 ).

Robert A. Heinlein contributed to the screenplay for Destination Moon in 1950, but none of his major works were adapted for the screen until the 1990s: The Puppet Masters in 1994 and Starship Troopers in 1997.

These stories were key points in the Future History, so Heinlein gave a rough description of Nehemiah Scudder which made his reign easy to visualize — a combination of John Calvin, Girolamo Savonarola, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, and Huey Long.

Whereas the characters in Starship Troopers were all volunteers, the characters in The Forever War were conscripts ( Heinlein had stated his opposition to conscription on several occasions ).

CAW was formed in 1962, evolving from a group of friends and lovers who were in part inspired by a fictional religion of the same name in the science fiction novel Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein ; the church's mythology includes science fiction to this day.

The TV show popularized the phrase in the 1960s, and many variations of it were used as titles for other works such as Have Space Suit – Will Travel by Robert Heinlein.

* The Robert A. Heinlein novel Beyond This Horizon lists " the clever and repulsively beautiful pseudo-feminine freemartins " as one of the genetically-engineered specialist types of humans that were created in the " Empire of the Great Khans " ( chapter 2 ).

Heinlein made no explicit remark on this, but a causal connection could be made: in the Future History the bold individualistic Americans emigrated into space in the end of the Twentieth Century, and were not present in America to stop it from falling into the fanatic's hands ".

Heinlein states that in the history of the " War Voting Act ", the process had been enacted three times, and all three times the entire citizenry were actively engaged in very vocal debate as to the whether the conflict was warranted.

Initially a revival of NBC's Dimension X ( 1950 – 51 ), the first 15 episodes of X Minus One were new versions of Dimension X episodes, but the remainder were adaptations by NBC staff writers, including Ernest Kinoy and George Lefferts, of newly published science fiction stories by leading writers in the field, including Isaac Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Robert A. Heinlein, Frederik Pohl and Theodore Sturgeon, along with some original scripts by Kinoy and Lefferts.

While Hostile Takeover is an example of libertarian science fiction in the tradition of Robert A. Heinlein and L. Neil Smith, its portrayal of society on the planet Bakunin is arguably much more critical of the basic premise of anarchism than is typical of the genre, coming close to a libertarian dystopia.

The 1950 movie Destination Moon was loosely based on Rocket Ship Galileo, and Heinlein was one of three co-authors of the script.

Klendathu is the fictional homeworld of the extraterrestrial race known as the Bugs ( or, sometimes, " Arachnids "), in the fictional universe of the Robert A. Heinlein novel Starship Troopers, and in the movie of the same name ( and its first and second sequels, and spin-off television series ).

While Klendathu's terrain is never described in the Robert A. Heinlein novel, the movie presents Klendathu ( along with every other planet save Earth ) as a desert world.

He was interested in the concept of non immediate profit-driven free markets, and was seen as a developer and defender of the " pay it forward " approach with Robert A. Heinlein, a term also popularized in a movie of that name, starring Kevin Spacey and other stars.

A decade after the first RoboCop movie was produced, Neumeier rejoined Paul Verhoeven to work on Starship Troopers, which was adapted from the novel with the same name by Robert A. Heinlein in 1959.