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In its obituary of the scholar, The Independent stated that " Isaiah Berlin was often described, especially in his old age, by means of superlatives: the world's greatest talker, the century's most inspired reader, one of the finest minds of our time ... there is no doubt that he showed in more than one direction the unexpectedly large possibilities open to us at the top end of the range of human potential ".
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After the death of Mary Hastings Bradley in 1976, " Tiptree " mentioned in a letter that his mother, also a writer, had died in Chicago — details that led inquiring fans to find the obituary, with its reference to Alice Sheldon ; soon all was revealed.
William of Poitiers wrote glowingly of William's reign and its benefits, but the obituary notice for William in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle condemns William in harsh terms.
As Whitrow explained in Dingle's obituary, this is not correct .< ref > The Lorentz transformation is x '=( x − vt ) β, t '=( t − vx / c < sup > 2 </ sup >) β, and its algebraic inverse is x =( x '+ vt ') β, t =( t '+ vx '/ c < sup > 2 </ sup >) β, where β = 1 /√( 1 − v < sup > 2 </ sup >/ c < sup > 2 </ sup >).
* In its 26 August 2009 obituary for Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, the New York Times described the late Senator as a " Rabelaisian figure in the Senate and in life ".
" The campaign was the beginning of an association with Dukakis and his wife, Kitty, that would bring Mr. Zakim to the policy-making level of the national Democratic Party, a standing he retained after Dukakis's political career faded ," the Boston Globe wrote in its obituary on Zakim.
He also " used his political connections and friendships with black ministers, Roman Catholic leaders and sports celebrities to establish community organizations and public-service events, including the 12, 000-member Team Harmony antiracism rally for teenagers ," the New York Times said in its obituary.
In its obituary of Holloway, The Times wrote that Sam and Albert " became part of English folklore during the 1930s, and they remained so during the Second World War.
For Life ’ s final issue in its original format, 80-year-old Edward Sandford Martin was recalled from editorial retirement to compose its obituary.
Peter Travers of Rolling Stone claimed that Town & Country was " less deserving of a review than it is an obituary .... The corpse took with it the reputations of its starry cast, including Warren Beatty and Diane Keaton.
A 2005 obituary by The Guardian of its pocket cartoonist David Austin said " Newspaper readers instinctively look to the pocket cartoon to reassure them that the disasters and afflictions besetting them each morning are not final.
Soon afterwards, The Sporting Times prints its legendary obituary notice:
* On 26 June 1975, a the day after emergency was imposed in India, the Bombay edition of The Times of India in its obituary column carried an entry that read " D. E. M O ' Cracy beloved husband of T. Ruth, father of L. I. Bertie, brother of Faith, Hope and Justica expired on 26 June ".
In its obituary, The New York Times credited Griffin as " the only reason that animal thinking was given consideration at all ".
In its obituary for Noguchi, the New York Times called him " a versatile and prolific sculptor whose earthy stones and meditative gardens bridging East and West have become landmarks of 20th-century art.
After the Associated Press mistakenly placed Bob Hope's obituary on its web site in June 1998, Stump announced on the floor of the House that the entertainer had died.
The Times praised Backhaus in its 1969 obituary for having upheld the classical German music tradition of the Leipzig Conservatory.
The 1980 film Where the Buffalo Roam loosely depicts Acosta's life and his relationship with Hunter S. Thompson, and takes its name from Thompson's obituary to Acosta " The Banshee Screams for Buffalo Meat ", which in turn is a reference to Acosta's book Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo.
According to Leopold Kohr's obituary for Schumacher, when his paper " was published in the spring of 1943 in Economica, it caused some embarrassment to Keynes who, instead of arranging for its separate publication, had incorporated the text almost verbatim in his famous " Plan for an International Clearing Union ," which the British government issued as a White Paper a few weeks later.
The Wisden Cricketers ' Almanack, in its obituary for him, called him Australia's greatest batsman: " Of all the great Australian batsmen Victor Trumper was by general consent the best and most brilliant.
Sometimes the prewritten obituary's subject outlives its author ; an example is The New York Times obituary of Taylor, written by the newspaper's theater critic Mel Gussow, who died in 2005.
Reacting to his own company's obituary of Severin in 2012, Fantagraphics co-publisher Kim Thompson wrote, " I don ’ t think I ’ m in thinking of CRACKED for most of its run as “ a bunch of crap, and John Severin .”
The Daily Telegraph wrote in its obituary: " There was only one Dan.
In its obituary, the New York Times attributed his death to " paralysis of the brain ", and stated that his death had been expected.
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Last week Chicago happily found its top scholar in Caltech's acting dean of the faculty: dynamic Geneticist George Wells Beadle, 57, who shared the 1958 Nobel Prize in medicine and physiology for discovering how genes affect heredity by controlling cell chemistry ( Time, Cover, July 14, 1958 ).
The poem fell into obscurity for decades, and its existence did not become widely known again until it was printed in 1815 in an edition prepared by the Icelandic-Danish scholar Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin.
The earliest known owner of the Beowulf manuscript is the 16th-century scholar Laurence Nowell, after whom the manuscript is named, though its official designation is British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. XV because it was one of Robert Bruce Cotton's holdings in the Cotton Library in the middle of the 17th century.
* China Rediscovers its Own History 100 minute lecture on Chinese history given by renowned scholar / author Yu Ying-shih, Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University.
Most scholars regard it as being entirely fictional, its geography being perfect for romance writers ; Arthurian scholar Norris J.
During Renaissance the creation of printing allowed a wider diffusion of encyclopedias and every scholar could have its own copy.
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO included the 400th anniversary of Ottoman traveler and scholar Evliya Celebi's birth to its timetable for celebration of anniversaries.
Accordingly, the 13th century scholar Li Ye, who argued that the movements of the round heaven would be hindered by a square Earth, did not advocate a spherical Earth, but rather that its edge should be rounded off so as to be circular.
Christian scholar Donald Guthrie claims that the Gospel was likely widely known before the end of the 1st century, and was fully recognized by the early part of the second, while Helmut Koester states that aside from Marcion, " there is no certain evidence for its usage ," prior to ca.
* Doreen Massey ( born 1944 ), key scholar in the space and places of globalization and its pluralities, winner of the Vautrin Lud Prize.
Yet, one modern scholar, reading between the lines, has described the work of Hecataeus as " a curious false start to history " because, despite its critical spirit, it failed to liberate history from myth.
" Nowadays, as Hezbollah scholar Magnus Ranstorp reports, Hezbollah does indeed have a formal governing structure, and in keeping with the principle of Guardianship of the Islamic Jurists ( velayat-e faqih ), it " concentrate ... all authority and powers " in its religious leaders, whose decisions then " flow from the ulama down the entire community.
This protest ended in the arrest of many of its organizers, including Mawlana Faizani, a popular Islamic scholar.
Both books are dedicated to one Theophilus and no scholar seriously doubts that the same person wrote both works, though neither work contains the name of its author.
Lindberg and Numbers write: " There was scarcely a Christian scholar of the Middle Ages who did not acknowledge sphericity and even know its approximate circumference ".
* According to Nepali scholar Rishikesh Shaha, the ancient chronicles report that a sage ( muni ) named Ne became the protector ( pāla ) of this land and the founder of its first ruling dynasty.
The free commune, the place that had made Dante an eminent politician and scholar, was being dismantled: the signoria was taking its place.
The scholar Tom Shippey asks a perennial question of science fiction: " What is its relationship to fantasy fiction, is its readership still dominated by male adolescents, is it a taste which will appeal to the mature but non-eccentric literary mind?
:" As soon as a noun enters the domain of metaphor, as one modern scholar has pointed out, it clamours for extension ; and satura ( which had had no verbal, adverbial, or adjectival forms ) was immediately broadened by appropriation from the Greek word for “ satyr ” ( satyros ) and its derivatives.
Modern scholars regard this claim as mistaken, as the contemporary historians of science David C. Lindberg and Ronald L. Numbers write: " there was scarcely a Christian scholar of the Middle Ages who did not acknowledge sphericity and even know its approximate circumference.
Several months after qualifying as a lecturer in philosophy, Adorno delivered an inaugural lecture at the Institute for Social Research, an independent organization which had recently appointed Horkheimer as its director and, with the arrival of the literary scholar Leo Lowenthal, social psychologist Erich Fromm and philosopher Herbert Marcuse, sought to exploit recent theoretical and methodological advances in the social sciences.
Roughly a century before Copernicus, Christian scholar Nicholas of Cusa also proposed that the Earth rotates on its axis in his book, On Learned Ignorance ( 1440 ).
Food scholar Terence Scully has proposed the alternative etymology of bland mangier, " bland dish ", reflecting its often mild and " dainty " ( in this context meaning refined and aristocratic ) taste and popularity as a sick dish.
In October of that year Arthur took her to visit Boar's Hill, near Oxford, in legend so named because a scholar attacked by a boar there choked it to death by stuffing a copy of Thucydides in its mouth.
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