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Christopher Hitchens, in his autobiography, describes a dinner with Christie and her husband, Max Mallowan, that became increasingly uncomfortable as the night wore on, where " The anti-Jewish flavour of the talk was not to be ignored or overlooked, or put down to heavy humour or generational prejudice.
* Christopher Hitchens No One Left to Lie to: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton ( 1999 ) ISBN 1-85984-736-6
Christopher Hitchens was offended by the notion of Clinton as the first black president noting " we can still define blackness by the following symptoms: alcoholic mothers, under-the-bridge habits ... the tendency to sexual predation and shameless perjury about the same ".
Christopher Hitchens represents conspiracy theories as the " exhaust fumes of democracy ", the unavoidable result of a large amount of information circulating among a large number of people.
* 2011 – Christopher Hitchens, Prolific Columnist ( b. 1949 )
Dennett is referred to as one of the " Four Horsemen of New Atheism ", along with Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and the late Christopher Hitchens.
Journalist and public intellectual Christopher Hitchens was one of several authors influenced by Orwell's politics and use of language
In Orwell's Victory, Christopher Hitchens argues, " In answer to the accusation of inconsistency Orwell as a writer was forever taking his own temperature.
Why Orwell Matters was published by Christopher Hitchens in 2002.
* Hitchens, Christopher.
* Hitchens, Christopher, The Trial of Henry Kissinger, ( Verso: 2001 ) ISBN 1-85984-631-9
* In the opening chapter of his book God is Not Great, Christopher Hitchens quotes from Richard Le Gallienne's translation of Khayyam's famous quatrain:
According to the journalist Christopher Hitchens, Ekéus " told me that he'd been offered by Tariq Aziz in person, to his face, a bribe of a million and a half dollars to change his inspection report.
* April 13 – Christopher Hitchens, English-American writer ( d. 2011 )
* December 15 – Christopher Hitchens, British-American writer ( b. 1949 )
Christopher Hitchens referred to himself as an Epicurean.
* Malraux: A Life ( 2005 ) by Olivier Todd ( ISBN 0375407022 ) Review by Christopher Hitchens
* Christopher Hitchens ( 1949 – 2011 ), author and journalist
Author Christopher Hitchens wrote in 12 August 2007 edition of The New York Times that, in the final book, Voldemort " becomes more tiresome than an Ian Fleming villain.
Writer Christopher Hitchens, when asked for his favorite Bible story replied “ Casting the first stone ” is a lovely story, even though we ’ ve found out how much it wasn ’ t in the Bible to begin with.
Journalist and pundit Christopher Hitchens published an essay in The Nation titled " Why Dubya Can't Read ", writing:
After Oxford, he found an entry-level job at The Times Literary Supplement, and at age 27 became literary editor of the New Statesman, where he met Christopher Hitchens, then a feature writer for The Observer, who remained a close friend until Hitchens's death in 2011.
Christopher Hitchens wrote that Irving sang the rhyme to Hitchens ' wife, Carol Blue and daughter, Antonia, in the elevator following dinner in the family's Washington apartment.
He became a well-known activist in international circles, co-authoring papers and giving joint speaking engagements with American political dissident Noam Chomsky, and winning plaudits from Jean Paul Sartre, Gore Vidal, Christopher Hitchens and Edward Said.

Christopher and described
) In 2007, Christopher Gray of The New York Times described it as " a writhing composition in white Tyrolean marble depicting Lorelei, the mythical German figure, surrounded by mermaids, dolphins and seashells.
" As described by biographer Christopher Sandford, " The record dashed such high hopes with dubious choices, and production that spelt the end — for fifteen years — of Bowie's partnership with Eno.
The band's album debut, Tin Machine ( 1989 ), was initially popular, though its politicised lyrics did not find universal approval: Bowie described one song as " a simplistic, naive, radical, laying-it-down about the emergence of neo-Nazis "; in the view of biographer Christopher Sandford, " It took nerve to denounce drugs, fascism and TV [...] in terms that reached the literary level of a comic book.
Illusionist Milbourne Christopher wrote years later that he felt " there are at least a dozen ways a subject who wished to cheat under the conditions Rhine described could deceive the investigator ".
Because Sergius III had reputedly ordered the murder of his two immediate predecessors, Leo V and Christopher and was the only pope to have allegedly fathered an illegitimate son who later became pope ( John XI ), his pontificate has been described as " dismal and disgraceful ".
At around the same time, Christopher Columbus returned from the New World, he described to investors new spices available there.
The tales of Tarleton's atrocities were a part of standard U. S. accounts of the war and were described by Washington Irving and by Christopher Ward in his 1952 history, The War of the Revolution, where Tarleton is described as " cold-hearted, vindictive, and utterly ruthless.
From the Roaring twenties # Tolerance towards other groups | Roaring Twenties and the time of Weimar culture: a meeting point for homosexuals, described by Klaus Mann and Christopher Isherwood: the area at Berlin s Nollendorfplatz and Motzstrasse
British historian Christopher Hibbert described Marion as
The resulting forts have been described by historian Christopher Duffy as having " an air at once sturdy and festive, rather like a squashed wedding cake ".
Scott was described by his son Christopher as being a deeply religious man.
Following the Great Fire in 1666, closely described in his diaries, Evelyn presented one of several plans ( Christopher Wren produced another ) for the rebuilding of London, all of which were roundly ignored by Charles II.
" Later that same evening, Evelyn described what he had seen to Sir Christopher Wren.
There are several fundamentally different kinds of polymorphism, two of which were originally informally described by Christopher Strachey in 1967.
The whole appearance and feel of the book, and the accuracy of the text and beauty of the script was highly praised by scholars such as Bishop Christopher Wordsworth ( 1807 – 1885 ), nephew of the poet and an important New Testament textual scholar, who described the book as " surpassing in delicate simplicity of neatness every manuscript that I have seen ".
" Similarly, Christopher Fowler wrote in The Independent, " His simple, sharp style brought his tales colourfully to life " and described Collier's fiction as " sardonic.
Christopher Booker described wishful thinking in terms of
Commenting on Sir Christopher Meyer's testimony to the Iraq Inquiry in 2009, he described the inquiry as " a procession of primadonnas and the usual suspects grandstanding for the TV ".
He also described Christopher as a " drag " on his emotions, and " a weak, lying drug addict.
Christopher Judge described Teal ' c as a liberator who tries to end his people's enslavement.
National front bencher Christopher Finlayson, sworn in as Minister for Treaty of Waitangi negotiations in November 2008, has described the act as " discriminatory and unfair ".
Fuad Ramses was described by author Christopher Wayne Curry in his book A Taste of Blood: The Films of Herschell Gordon Lewis as " the original machete-wielding madman " and the forerunner to similar characters in Friday the 13th and Halloween.
Christopher Douglas described Jardine as " the epitome of the old-fashioned amateur ".

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