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she was one of Eliot Sparling's neutralized minorities, adopting the rolling R's and constricted vowels of Los Angeles.
The letters took their source from a stream of my imagination in which I was transformed into a young man not unlike my bunkmate Eliot Sands -- he of the porch steps anecdotes -- who smoked cigarettes, performed the tango, wore fifty dollar suits, and sneaked off into the dark with girls to do unimaginable things with them.
Like Eliot, in my fantasies, I had a proud bearing and, with a skill that was vaguely continental, I would lead Jessica through an evening of dancing and handsome descriptions of my newest exploits, would guide her gently to the night's climax which, in my dreams, was always represented by our almost suffocating one another to death with deep, moist kisses burning with love.
This French supported production with John Eliot Gardiner, conductor, and his Orchestra was directed by Jean Louis Martinoty.
A similar fate was met from other publishers ( including T. S. Eliot at Faber and Faber ) until Jonathan Cape agreed to take it.
He was personal friends with such literary figures as T. S. Eliot and Carl Sandburg.
Mary Anne ( alternatively Mary Ann or Marian ) Evans ( 22 November 1819 – 22 December 1880 ), better known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, journalist and translator, and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.
In the end, the real George Eliot stepped forward: Marian Evans Lewes admitted she was the author.
Eliot was not buried in Westminster Abbey because of her denial of the Christian faith and her " irregular " though monogamous life with Lewes.
In 1948, Nuneaton Emergency Hospital was named George Eliot Hospital in Eliot's honour.
George Eliot Road, in Foleshill, Coventry was named in her honour.
According to Eliot Weinberger, an American writer, essayist, editor and translator, Kosiński was not the author of The Painted Bird.
In June 1982, a Village Voice report by Geoffrey Stokes and Eliot Fremont-Smith accused Kosiński of plagiarism, claiming that much of his work was derivative of prewar books unfamiliar to English readers, and that Being There was a plagiarism of Kariera Nikodema Dyzmy — The Career of Nicodemus Dyzma — a 1932 Polish bestseller by Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz.
Lemmon attended Phillips Academy ( Class of 1943 ) and Harvard University ( Class of 1947 ), where he lived in Eliot House and was an active member of several Drama Clubs-becoming president of the Hasty Pudding Club-as well as a member of the Delphic Club for Gentleman, a final club at Harvard.
One very famous colonial officer in the Gilbert and Ellice Islands colony was Sir Arthur Grimble ( 1888 – 1956 ), at first as a cadet officer in 1914, under Edward Carlyon Eliot who was Resident Commissioner of the Gilbert & Ellice Islands colony from 1913 to 1920.
He continues to influence religious thinkers to the present day, and was cited as an influence by T. S. Eliot, among others ( Eliot also borrowed, almost word for word and without his usual acknowledgement, the opening of Andrewes ' 1622 Christmas Day sermon for ' The Journey of the Magi ').
In 1936 he told TS Eliot that he was starting to meditate, and he used other therapies too ; the Alexander Technique and the Bates Method of seeing had particular importance in guiding him through personal crises.
An earlier attempt, the Harvard Classics ( 1909 ), was promulgated by Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot, whose thesis was the same as Carlyle's:
Yet close friends, brothers, sisters, and even sometimes partners of the friends were not necessarily members of Bloomsbury: Keynes ’ s wife Lydia Lopokova was only reluctantly accepted into the group, and there were certainly " writers who were at some time close friends of Virginia Woolf, but who were distinctly not ' Bloomsbury ': T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, Hugh Walpole ".
This mandate was soon expanded into a credo, possibly written by the SAC's first president, Charles Eliot Norton, which read:

Eliot and reformer
These include T. S. Eliot, who taught the poet laureate John Betjeman there, Gerard Manley Hopkins the poet, the composers John Taverner and John Rutter, John Venn the inventor of Venn diagrams, actor Geoffrey Palmer, Anthony Crosland MP and Labour reformer, and the cabinet minister Charles Clarke.
His lifelong friend, scholar and social reformer Charles Eliot Norton, described Child's father, a sailmaker, as " one of that class of intelligent and independent mechanics skilled craftsmen, which has had a large share of developing the character of our democratic community, as of old the same class had in Athens or in Florence .” The family was poor, but thanks to the city of Boston's system of free public schools, the boy was educated at the Boston's Grammar and English High Schools.

Eliot and university's
Eliot served until 1909, having the longest term as president in the university's history.
The Society, which was originally headquartered in a two-room suite at Eliot House, one of the university's twelve residential colleges, has become known for the large number of scholars it has contributed to the Harvard faculty over the years and thus for the way it has influenced the tenor of discourse at the university.
Before Harvard opted to use a lottery system to assign residences to upperclassmen ( beginning with the class of 1999 ), Eliot was known as a ' prep ' house, providing accommodation to the university's social elite, and being known as " more Harvard than Harvard ".

Eliot and faculty
During these " Boston Tech " years, MIT faculty and alumni repeatedly rejected overtures from former MIT faculty turned Harvard University president Charles W. Eliot, to merge MIT with Harvard College's Lawrence Scientific School.
Former Wesleyan faculty and affiliates V. S. Naipaul, Woodrow Wilson, and T. S. Eliot have been awarded Nobel Prizes.

Eliot and into
Her family hailed from Arkansas, where her great-grandparents and her maternal grandfather, Henry Eliot, were born into slavery.
At Columbia, Dewey worked with other educators such as Charles Eliot and Abraham Flexner to help bring progressivism into the mainstream of American education.
In The Spanish Gypsy, Eliot made a foray into verse, creating a work whose initial popularity has not endured.
The relevance and acceptability of the lyric in the modern age was, though, called into question by modernist poets such as Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, H. D.
Some material that the producer asked Eliot to remove or replace during the writing was transformed into the poem " Burnt Norton ".
These were two of the 14 Praying Indian villages established by Reverend John Eliot, from Natick and Roxbury, who translated the Bible into the Nipmuc language.
* Brookside Elementary School, Lenox Elementary School, and Eliot Elementary School were closed as public school buildings: Brookside was procured by a developer who converted the school into condominiums ; Lenox Community Center has the SLP Senior Program and preschool on the main floor, with non-profits on the second ; Eliot has public and private non-district school renters.
During the following year Eliot resumed work, fusing together several stories into a coherent whole, and during 1871 – 72 the novel appeared in serial form.
His most important work, Das Wesen des Christentums ( 1841 ), was translated by George Eliot into English as The Essence of Christianity.
In the American colonies, John Eliot of Massachusetts translated the Bible into the Massachusett language, also called Wampanoag, or Natick ( 1661 – 1663 ; he published the first Bible printed in North America ).
" Meanwhile Eliot, on the refusal of the speaker to read the Protestations, had himself thrown them into the fire ; the usher of the black rod was knocking at the door for admittance, and the king had sent for the guard.
John Eliot translated the Bible into the Algonquin language.
He is buried in the cemetery in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in the " Sedgwick Pie ", since ( like his good friend Charles Eliot Norton ), he had married into the Sedgwick family.
The group was to have a significant influence on 20th-century poetry, especially through T. S. Eliot, whose essay The Metaphysical Poets ( 1921 ) praised the very anti-Romantic and intellectual qualities of which Johnson and his contemporaries had disapproved, and helped bring their poetry back into favour with readers.
Symons contributed poems and essays to the Yellow Book, including an important piece which was later expanded into The Symbolist Movement in Literature, which would have a major influence on William Butler Yeats and T. S. Eliot.
The U. S. Department of the Interior has until recently approved of this action and even after obtaining Governor Eliot Spitzer's concurrence subject to the negotiation and approval of either an amendment to the current compact or a new compact has rejected their application to take the land into trust.
Chapman's translation of Homer was much admired by John Keats, notably in his famous poem On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, and also drew attention from Samuel Taylor Coleridge and T. S. Eliot.
Eliot also alludes to the lines near the end of Marvell's poem, " Let us roll all our strength and all / Our sweetness up into one ball ," with his lines, " To have squeezed the universe into a ball / To roll it toward some overwhelming question ," as Prufrock questions whether or not such an act of daring would have been worth it.

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