" Michael Billington wrote, " Too much of this film has the hectoring stridency of tabloid headlines ", while Chris Petit in Time Out described it as " slick, ' adult ', self-congratulatory, and almost entirely hollow ", adding that " most of the interest comes in watching such a lavishly mounted vehicle leaving the rails so spectacularly.

Billington has championed the Library ’ s American Memory National Digital Library ( NDL ) Program, which makes freely available on-line over 24 million American historical items from the collections of the Library and other research institutions.

Billington has accompanied ten congressional delegations to Russia and the former Soviet Union.

In total, Dr. Billington has received over 40 honorary degrees.

Billington was a longtime member of the editorial advisory boards of Foreign Affairs and of Theology Today, and a member of the Board of Foreign Scholarships ( 1971 – 76 ; Chairman, 1973 – 1975 ), which has executive responsibility for academic exchanges worldwide under the Fulbright-Hays Act.

Critic Michael Billington, for example, wrote, " the time for this kind of faux-naïf, sub Commedia dell ' Arte diversion has passed ".

" Great Billington " has been used as the name of the whole civil parish, but the parish council now uses the name " Billington " again.

In his review for The Guardian, Michael Billington wrote: " Time has also changed both the show and our attitude towards it.

Both Billington and Paul Taylor ( in The Independent ) give the production 4 out of 5 stars, while Charles Spencer, reviewing the production in The Daily Telegraph, like other critics making inevitable comparisons with the original production, rates it as " equally fine, with Michael Gambon and David Bradley rising magnificently to the benchmark set by their illustrious predecessors ," but points out that he too does not feel that he fully understands it: " Even after three decades I cannot claim fully to understand this haunting drama that proves by turns funny, scary, and resonantly poetic, but I have no doubt that it is one of the handful of indisputable modern classics that Pinter has written, and a piece that will haunt and tantalise the memory of all who see it.

He has seven siblings, among them Lady Antonia Fraser, a writer who was married to playwright Harold Pinter ; Lady Rachel Billington, also a writer and married to director Kevin Billington ; Judith Kazantzis, a poet ; and Kevin Pakenham, who currently works in the City of London.

Favorable reviewer Alex Billington noted, " This is just how the film industry works nowadays ; critics give bad opinions, the public usually has a differing opinion, and all is well in the world of Hollywood since the studios made their millions anyway.

David P. Billington has been particularly enthusiastic about the bridge:

Clyde Billington of Northwestern College ( Minnesota ) has dated it to AD 41, and interpreted it as evidence for the historicity of Christians preaching the resurrection of Jesus within a decade of His crucifixion.

" Of that play's subsequent London production at the Almeida Theater, critic Michael Billington of the Guardian wrote that Ong " has a remarkable gift for distilled dialogue and for pinning down the fragmentation, solitude and despair of the city of dreams.

The production received good reviews, but the critic Michael Billington believed that it was more suggestive of Fletcher than Shakespeare.

At first, Merchant took it very well, saying positive things about Fraser, according to her friend artist Guy Vaesen ( as cited by Michael Billington ); but, Vaesen recalled, after " a female friend of Vivien's trotted round to her house and poisoned her mind against Antonia ... ife in Hanover Terrace the Pinters then lived gradually became impossible ".

James Hadley Billington Jr., and Thomas Keator Billington, as well as 12 grandchildren.

From 1973 to 1987, Billington was director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the nation ’ s official memorial in Washington, D. C. to America ’ s 28th president.

The critic Michael Billington, summarising these events, wrote: " In 1960 the twenty-nine-year-old Peter Hall formally took charge at Stratford-upon-Avon and set about turning a star-laden, six-month Shakespeare festival into a monumental, year-round operation built around a permanent company, a London base and contemporary work from home and abroad.

Therefore, by the time of the first Thanksgiving in autumn 1621, there were only four women from the Mayflower left alive: Eleanor Billington, Elizabeth Hopkins, Mary Brewster, and Susanna Winslow.

While Rougeau was playing cards backstage, from behind, Billington smacked Jacques in the ear and then punched and kicked him in the face several times and also struck Raymond, who was on crutches at the time.

View from summit of Billington Hill, looking towards Edlesborough and the Chiltern Hills

Mapmakers, from Thomas Jefferys in 1765 to the Ordnance Survey in 2006, have consistently written the word " Billington " next to the settlement by the church and the words " Little Billington " next to the hamlet of that name.

* Marc Billington, Forklift Truck driver from Abergavenny

Michael Billington was charged in a Roanoke court with having knowingly solicited 131 loans that would never be repaid from 85 people, totaling $ 1. 24 million.

Over a decade after having written The Life and Work of Harold Pinter ( London: Faber, 1996 ), the first edition of his authorised biography of Pinter, Billington discusses his critical perspective on the play in his videotaped discussion for Pinter at the BBC, broadcast on BBC Four television from 26 October through 9 November 2002.

"), which came to Pinter in taxicab while riding home from dinner out alone, and the thematic significance of the titular metaphorical phrase no man's land, and finds " something of Pinter " in both of the main characters, each one a writer whom Pinter may have to some degree feared becoming: one " with all the trappings of success but is inured by fame, wealth, comfort " ( Hirst ); the other, " the struggling, marginal, the pin-striped writer " who " does not make it " ( Spooner ); though when Billington put his theory to Pinter, Pinter said ( jokingly ), " Well, yes, maybe ; but I've never had two man servants named Foster and Briggs.

Bryant, described by Michael Billington as a " rock-solid company man ", had earlier performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company from 1964, including the premiere production of Harold Pinter's The Homecoming ( 1965 ), in which he played Teddy, the returning academic.

" Michael Billington of The Guardian reported that the show had improved with its transfer to the West End from the Menier Chocolate Factory.

* Michael Billington, The Guardian, with tributes from friends and fans, 1 Sept 2008

Tin came from Banka and the Billington Islands, which extracted 43, 900 tonnes in 1940.

Embracing the great tradition of photographic salons, the gallery presented the work of a variety of local photographers from a range of genres including Robert Billington, Brett Leigh Dicks, Russell Kilbey, Brendan Read, Peter Solness and Greg Rouse.

In May 1621 John Billington ( younger ) became lost in some woods for several days, eventually being returned home by some natives from Nauset on Cape Cod.

Translation from the Koine Greek text by Clyde E. Billington:

In February 2012 Armand appeared as John in Alan Ayckbourn's Absent Friends at the Harold Pinter Theatre, London, receiving a positive review from Michael Billington.

Michael Billington wrote in 2005 that Robert MacDonald " did more than anyone to rescue Schiller from British neglect.

James Billington, formerly professor of Russian history at Harvard and Princeton and currently the Librarian of Congress placed Fomenko's work within the context of the political movement of Eurasianism, which sought to tie Russian history closely to that of its Asian neighbors.

David P. Billington, a civil engineering professor and historian of the field at Princeton University, attributes the output of the Swiss in the 19th and 20th century to the refining effect of the competitions used to select Swiss public-works designs, among other causes.

Dr. Billington and his daughter Susan are the first father and daughter to both be awarded Rhodes Scholarships and use them to earn DPhils ( at Oxford University ).

Mercer University was founded in Penfield, Georgia as a boys ' preparatory school under the leadership of Billington McCarthy Sanders, a professor who served as the first president, and Adiel Sherwood, a Baptist minister who previously founded a boys ' manual labor school that served as a model.

* Michael Billington, " Porter, Eric Richard ( 1928 – 1995 )", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004