He was taught as a child by John Foxe, the Protestant martyrologist, who remained a lifelong recipient of Norfolk's patronage.

He began reading Sir Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, Herman Melville, and other modern writers of fiction and cultivated a lifelong love for Longfellow, whose verse he sometimes employed as a model for his own.

A lifelong fan of " hard-boiled " fiction, Zevon was friendly with several well-known writers who also collaborated on his songwriting during this period, including Thompson, Carl Hiaasen and Mitch Albom.

Among them were writers such as George Bernard Shaw with whom she corresponded for many decades, Aylmer Maude another lifelong correspondent, H. G.

There Palmer met writers and artists who would leave an indelible mark on his own developing sense of a poetics, especially Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley, and Clark Coolidge, with whom he formed lifelong friendships.

The only atrocity he was especially notorious for was his persecution of artists of any kind ( painters, musicians, dancers and others ), but he was mostly focused on musicians and composers that had been his rivals before the war, though even then he preferred to just have them permanently maimed so as to be unable to ever practice their arts again, as a form of lifelong mental torture, instead of actually killing them outright.

After Hamri introduced Gysin to the Zahjouka village, Gysin became a lifelong promoter of the Sufi trance master musicians who lived there.

Bogdanovich, drawing from his encyclopedic knowledge of film history, authored several critically lauded books, including Peter Bogdanovich's Movie of the Week, which offered the lifelong cinephile's commentary on 52 of his favorite films, and Who The Devil Made It: Conversations with Legendary Film Directors and Who the Hell's in It: Conversations with Hollywood's Legendary Actors, both based on interviews with directors and actors.

In addition to her interest in acting, she developed a lifelong interest in religion ; in later years actors such as Dick Sargent would recall Moorehead arriving on the set with " the Bible in one hand and the script in the other ".

In Gillot's studio Watteau became acquainted with the characters of the commedia dell ' arte ( its actors had been expelled from France several years before ), a favorite subject of Gillot's that would become one of Watteau's lifelong passions.

Duke survived to become a television star ( The Patty Duke Show ) in the early-to-mid -' 60s, before moving on to more film and television work ( including a memorable role in Valley of the Dolls ), becoming an activist in the Screen Actors Guild, writing two memoirs ( Call Me Anna and A Brilliant Madness ) describing her troubled child acting career and her lifelong battle with manic depression, and becoming an advocate for better protection and benefits for child actors.

Heinrich Harrer, he has received a lifelong denial of entry to China, as have starring actors Brad Pitt and David Thewlis.

He was considered the finest Hamlet of the nineteenth century and one of the finest actors of his time, despite his dislike of the job and his lifelong belief that he was temperamentally unsuited to acting.

Scieszka is also the founder of Guys Read, a web-based literacy program for boys whose mission is ‘ to help boys become self-motivated, lifelong readers .’ He was prompted to found the nonprofit in response to his experiences as an elementary school teacher and the United States National Assessment of Educational Progress statistics showing boys consistently scoring worse than girls on federal reading tests every year, at every grade level.

Adorno's posthumously published Aesthetic Theory, which he planned on dedicating to Samuel Beckett, is the culmination of a lifelong commitment to modern art which attempts to revoke the " fatal separation " of feeling and understanding long demanded by the history of philosophy and explode the privilege aesthetics accords to content over form and contemplation over immersion.

Charles Darwin's writings provided the intellectual framework to Cleave's lifelong engagement with the relationship between diet and health, built upon the premise that the human body is ill-adapted to the diet of modern ( western ) man.

Thus for example Isocrates includes him among " the best advisers for human life ", even able to be ignored as a wowser, yet Plato's Socrates cites some Theognidean verses to dismiss the poet as a confused and self-contradictory sophist whose teachings are not to be trusted, while a modern scholar excuses self-contradictions as typical of a lifelong poet writing over many years and at the whim of inspiration.

De Mille was a lifelong friend of modern dance legend Martha Graham.

Most early modern noncriminal forced labor, before the rise of abolitionist movements in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, generally was the lifelong work of slaves from Africa on plantations in the Western hemisphere.

Flexicurity is designed and implemented across four policy components: 1 ) flexible and reliable contractual arrangements ; 2 ) comprehensive lifelong learning strategies ; 3 ) effective active labour market policies ; and 4 ) modern social security systems providing adequate income support during employment transitions.

Murphy, Kurlan and Leckman ( 2010 ) also discussed the influence of the media and the Internet in a paper that proposed a " way forward ": The potential link between common childhood infections and lifelong neuropsychiatric disorders is among the most tantalizing and clinically relevant concepts in modern neuroscience ...

Between 1973 and 1975 Bonewits was employed as editor of Gnostica magazine in Minnesota ( published by Llewellyn Publications ), established an offshoot group of the RDNA called the Schismatic Druids of North America, and helped create a group called the Hasidic Druids of North America ( despite his lifelong status as a " gentile ").

He became lifelong friends with Walter Lippmann and Horace Kallen, became an editor of the Harvard Law Review, and graduated with one of the best academic records since Louis Brandeis.

Ramsay's life ( wounded war veteran, lifelong bachelor schoolmaster ) was wholly unlike Davies ' ( never in the army, married with a family, a newspaper editor and author ) yet some readers thought Fifth Business semi-autobiographic.

David Marcus ( b. 1924 in County Cork, d. Beltane 9 May 2009 ) was an Irish Jewish editor and writer who was a lifelong advocate and editor of Irish fiction.

Together with Charles Maurras ( who remained a lifelong friend ), he co-founded ( 1907 ) and was an editor of the nationalist, integralist periodical Action Française.

After serving as Joe Orlando's assistant editor, in 1976 Levitz " fulfilled a lifelong dream " by becoming the editor of Adventure Comics on the eve of his 20th birthday.

After a residence in Stuttgart ( 1865 – 1869 ), where for a short time he conducted the Schwabische Volks-Zeitung and became the lifelong friend of the writer Wilhelm Raabe, he became editor in Flensburg of the Norddeutsche Zeitung.

He was a lifelong resident of Nashville, Tennessee and was sports editor and later Vice-President of the Nashville Banner daily newspaper.

It is the oldest gay student organization in the world, founded as the Student Homophile League in 1967 by students including lifelong activist Stephen Donaldson.

Bogart had a lifelong disgust for the pretentious, fake or phony, as his son Stephen told Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne in 1999.

While still a student, he befriended A. J. Ayer ( with whom he was to share a lifelong amicable rivalry ), Stuart Hampshire, Richard Wollheim, Maurice Bowra, Stephen Spender, J. L. Austin and Nicolas Nabokov.

* Canadian Wrestling Hall of Fame member Whipper Billy Watson was a lifelong resident, and he spearheaded the campaign to build the Georgina Cultural Centre in the 1980s, which also houses the Stephen Leacock Theatre.

* Canadian Wrestling Hall of Fame member Whipper Billy Watson was a lifelong resident, and he spearheaded the campaign to build the Georgina Cultural Centre in the 1980s, which also houses the Stephen Leacock Theatre.

The hero, Dangerfield, is a portrayal of lifelong bohemian and friend of Donleavy, Gainor Stephen Crist, as told by the author in The History of The Ginger Man.

Above all, I will remember Stephen ’ s courtesy to all, his extraordinary intellect combined with gentle persuasiveness, and his lifelong service to others .”

From starting life as a bare-footed stable boy, he became the richest man in Canada and closely associated with George V, whose wife, Queen Mary, was a lifelong friend and confidant of the second Lady Mount Stephen.

Through this connection, Gian was a lifelong friend and confidant of Queen Mary and she and Lord Mount Stephen regularly entertained her and her husband, George V, at Brocket.

His lifelong adherence to and assimilation of Anglo-American culture was consolidated by his studies in Oxford in 1953 where he read T. S. Eliot for the first time in English ( along with W. H. Auden and Stephen Spender ), thus beginning a lifelong fascination with the work of the Anglo-American poet.

His father was a soldier, sheriff, and photographer from New York, while his mother, May Venzor, from El Paso, Texas, was an evangelist and lifelong soldier in the Salvation Army.

* In May 1989 one of Haughey's lifelong friends Brian Lenihan, a former government minister, underwent a liver transplant which was partly paid for through fundraising by Haughey.

* On 25 May 2012, Nestlé's CEO Paul Bulcke received the VMA Award from the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School for his lifelong career, which has been distinguished by sustained integrity, exceptional management capacity and inspiring leadership.

In May 1919, the director of the sanatorium prescribed laudanum for Artaud, precipitating a lifelong addiction to that and other opiates.

In May 1990 Wolverhampton Wanderers was bought by lifelong supporter Jack Hayward, who immediately set about funding a comprehensive rebuild of the club's mostly decrepit ground to meet the new government regulations of the early 1990s, with the Stan Cullis Stand erected on the site of the North Bank in 1992, and the Billy Wright Stand replacing the Waterloo Road Stand in August 1993.

Encouraged by then-Major Chuck Yeager, with whom Cochran shared a lifelong friendship, on May 18, 1953, at Rogers Dry Lake, California, Cochran flew a Canadair F-86 Sabre jet borrowed from the Royal Canadian Air Force at an average speed of 652. 337 mph, becoming the first woman to break the sound barrier.

Barb Tarbox, MSM ( April 10, 1961 – May 18, 2003 ) was one of the most well-known anti-smoking activists in Canada ; a lifelong smoker dying of brain and lung cancers whose very open and frank discussions of her illness, its cause and its consequences, propelled her to the Canadian national stage.

Harriet Rebecca Lane Johnston ( May 9, 1830 – July 3, 1903 ), niece of lifelong bachelor United States President James Buchanan, acted as First Lady of the United States from 1857 to 1861.

One year later, in a New York magazine tribute " Jazz Bird " by Gwenda Blair, published May 27, 2002 ; Blair wrote: " Onstage, singer Susannah McCorkle exuded a sultry self-confidence that won her lifelong fans.

Daisy May Bates, CBE ( 16 October 1859 – 18 April 1951 ) was an Irish Australian journalist, welfare worker and lifelong student of Australian Aboriginal culture and society.

In conjunction with the 30th anniversary of Star Wars in May 2007, Rockett discussed his lifelong love of the series during an interview with Maul Stanley.

Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, or Marechal Rondon ( May 5, 1865 – January 19, 1958 ) was a Brazilian military officer who is most famous for his exploration of Mato Grosso and the Western Amazon Basin, and his lifelong support of Brazilian indigenous populations.

* Kazi Nazrul Islam ( 24 May 1899 – 29 August 1976 ), Bengali poet, musician and revolutionary who pioneered poetic works espousing intense spiritual rebellion against fascism and oppression, was a lifelong sufferer of this disease ( approx.

Kirk LeMoyne " Lem " Billings ( April 15, 1916 – May 28, 1981 ) was a prep school roommate and then lifelong close friend of President John F. Kennedy.

He served as a volunteer mentor in the Village to Child Program co-sponsored by Ohio Dominican University, where he received his Honorary Degree, “ Doctor of Humane Letters ”, on May 13, 2001, for his lifelong efforts in human rights and equality advancement.

On May 13, 2008, Utley received an unexpected accolade from lifelong baseball man ( and 43rd US President ) George W. Bush, who stated in an interview with politico. com that Utley would be the first position player he would select if he were an MLB team owner.

His latest book, Falcon Fever ( ISBN 0-618-80575-3 ), about his lifelong fascination with birds of prey, was released in May 2008.

He has taken this lifelong love into his philosophical work, giving a lecture in Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, in May 2009 on French football star Zinedine Zidane, ” A puppet or a god?