Wiener worked briefly as a journalist for the Boston Herald, where he wrote a feature story on the poor labor conditions for mill workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts, but he was fired soon afterwards for his reluctance to write favorable articles about a politician the newspaper's owners sought to promote.

Photius states that Agatharchides wrote in the Attic dialect, with a style that was dignified and perspicuous, and abounded in sententious passages — inspiring a favorable opinion from Photius.

Grant later wrote that this incident gave him a more favorable opinion of Meade than the great victory at Gettysburg.

On October 22, 2007, New York Times reporter Jim Rutenberg wrote that Republican and Democratic presidential candidates, including Hillary Clinton, were cooperating with Drudge and " working harder than ever to get favorable coverage for their candidates – or unfavorable coverage of competitors – onto the Drudge Report ’ s home page, knowing that television producers, radio talk show hosts and newspaper reporters view it as a bulletin board for the latest news and gossip.

Her performance in the film received favorable reviews ; Mike Straka of Fox News wrote: " Gyllenhaal has never been sexier in any film before and her interplay with Ferrell will propel her to more A-list films, leaving her indie-darling days behind, no doubt.

During the Revolutionary War in March 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John Adams, who was one of the revisers and signers of the Declaration of Independence, stating, " And, by the way, in the new code of laws which I suppose it will be necessary for you to make, I desire you would remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors.

New York Times critic Janet Maslin wrote a favorable review, saying that David Bowie ' plays a born leader in Nagisa Oshima's Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, and he plays him like a born film star.

Trevanian wrote many bestselling novels in different genres, which received highly favorable critical reviews.

In their highly favorable review of the album, AllMusic wrote, " Mr. Bungle is the musical equivalent of a David Lynch movie ", calling the music a " totally original and new musical style, and an album that sounds like nothing that currently exists.

In 2006 Barnes wrote a favorable biography of President George W. Bush titled Rebel in Chief ; reviewing it in The Washington Monthly, Isaac Chotiner called it " fawning and at times unintentionally amusing ," revealing its author as a " perfect Bush hack.

Only two of seven critics wrote favorable reviews, Bergen was replaced by understudy Ellen Hanley, and the musical closed in less than three months.

Ong wrote a highly favorable review of this new book in America.

While Newsweek, USA Today and Macleans Magazine in Canada published favorable articles about Singh in 1977, James Wilde of Time wrote a critical article that year, titled " Yogi Bhajan's Synthetic Sikhism ".

Nirvana biographer Everett True wrote a favorable review for Melody Maker —" Sure, the vocals are lazily throat splitting, the guitars belligerently grungy, the bass up and out of place.

In the April 30, 2006 edition of Time, Benjamin wrote a favorable profile of Pervez Musharraf, with the headline, " Why Pakistan's Leader May Be The West's Best Bet for Peace.

Kerr wrote a favorable review of The Pajama Game: " a bright, brassy, and jubilantly sassy show takes a whole barrelful of bright new talents, and a handful of stimulating ideas as well, and sends them tumbling in happy profusion over the footlights.

His feature directorial debut, I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With ( which he also wrote ), premiered to favorable reviews at the 2006 Tribeca Film Festival.

University of British Columbia professor of ecological planning William Rees wrote that Collapse < nowiki >'</ nowiki > s most important lesson is that societies most able to avoid collapse are the ones that are most agile ; they are able to adopt practices favorable to their own survival and avoid unfavorable ones.

" Editor of The New York Times, Jon Pareles, gave The Emancipation of Mimi a favorable review, complimenting the fact that Carey wrote all of the album's material.

Following a favorable review of the album, in which he praised Carey's voice as " invariably astonishing ", as well as the album's production and content, Jon Pareles from The New York Times wrote " So is Mariah Carey more herself than ever?

Kim Voynar of TV Squad wrote a favorable review, saying " This episode of Family Guy was just chock-full of the tasteless and tacky moments that make the show so popular.

Most recently, film critic Dennis Schwartz also wrote a favorable review: " Byron Haskin's low-budget film noir makes good use of its Los Angeles locale and its lady bluebeard is fun to watch as she does her nasty gun thing with her nice guy hubby and rotten poison thing with her boyfriend ( she took care of her first hubby off camera, so we're not sure how he got it!

Critic Sarah Bee of Melody Maker, in a favorable review of the album Permanent Stains, wrote, " These men are in touch with their inner deviants.

In a more favorable review, Country Standard Time wrote that the songs were " simple but profoundly observant " and compared Morgan's singing voice to Randy Travis.

According to the Suda, a 10th century encyclopedia, Alexis was the paternal uncle of the dramatist Menander and wrote 245 comedies, of which only fragments now survive, including some 130 preserved titles.

Also from Greece, Pedanius Dioscorides, in the middle of the first century, wrote De Materia Medica, a five-volume encyclopedia about herbal medicine that was widely read for more than 1, 500 years.

In his own article on the encyclopedia, Diderot also wrote, " Were an analytical dictionary of the sciences and arts nothing more than a methodical combination of their elements, I would still ask whom it behooves to fabricate good elements.

Abu al-Qasim al-Zahrawi ( Abulcasis ), who some have called the father of modern surgery, wrote the Kitab al-Tasrif ( 1000 ), a 30-volume medical encyclopedia which was taught at Muslim and European medical schools until the 17th century.

He wrote an encyclopedia of architecture that was used as the main bases and as guidance for Egyptian builders thousands of years after his death.

It was later Pliny the elder ( 23 – 79 A. D .), who wrote about truffles in his encyclopedia Naturalis historia.

The Greek historian Herodotus described the hippopotamus in The Histories ( written circa 440 BC ) and the Roman Historian Pliny the Elder wrote about the hippopotamus in his encyclopedia Naturalis Historia ( written circa 77 AD ).

Averroes wrote a medical encyclopedia called Kulliyat (" Generalities ", i. e. general medicine ), known in its Latin translation as Colliget.

Kircher was also fascinated with Sinology and wrote an encyclopedia of China, in which he noted the early presence of Nestorian Christians while also attempting to establish links with Egypt and Christianity that modern scholars regard as largely imaginary.

His student Ibn al-Baitar wrote a pharmaceutical encyclopedia describing 1, 400 plants, foods, and drugs, 300 of which were his own original discoveries.

He wrote an encyclopedia of science, which was influential, and a later referent for such modern efforts as the Islamization of knowledge, which have similar intention.

Granius also wrote about Cenae Suae (" My Dinner Parties "), an encyclopedia work that displayed his antiquarian interests in the manner of Aulus Gellius and his Attic Nights.

) wrote the Speculum Maius, the main encyclopedia that was used in the Middle Ages.

Ahmad al-Qalqashandi ( 1355 – 1418 ) wrote the Subh al-a ' sha, a 14-volume encyclopedia which included a section on cryptology.

Kendall of Oxford University in Mathematical Reviews who wrote that this book is " a substantial encyclopedia of queueing theory whose scope is indicated by the 910 items in the bibliography at the end of the book.

" In the Sunday Times, the reviewer wrote: " German 1970s minimalism is invading the British rock scene ... an Englishman is to blame ... Krautrocksampler is a lively history of a fascinating period, half encyclopedia, half psychedelic detective story.

The encyclopedia of Greek mythology called Bibliotheca, or Library, was traditionally attributed to him, but it cannot be his ; it cites authors who wrote centuries later.

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McFarlane wrote The Encyclopedia of Australian Rock and Pop in December 1999, it is described in Australian Music Guide as " The most exhaustive and wide-ranging encyclopedia of Australian music from the 1950s onwards ".

In October 1872, he wrote, the novel is " a kind of encyclopedia made into a farce ...

In November 2004, McHenry wrote an article for Tech Central Station ( later renamed TCS Daily ) in which he criticized Wikipedia, a free-content encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

Nathaniel Bowditch ( 1773 – 1838 ) was a noted American navigator who wrote a famous two-volume encyclopedia of navigation and sailing that is still used and published today by the Defense Mapping Agency Topographic Center ( DMATC ).

Though no name of a philosophical work by him is known, according to the Suda, the 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia, he wrote a treatise on the poetry of Hesiod and Homer, but nothing of them has survived.

That information was also contained in his written geography of the Arabian Peninsula, and in the encyclopedia of the world in which he wrote.