Believing the post to be " the first professorship of its kind in the country ," Harvard President Drew G. Faust called it “ an important milestone .” Funded by a $ 1. 5 million gift from the members and supporters of the Harvard Gay & Lesbian Caucus, the F. O. Matthiessen Visiting Professorship of Gender and Sexuality is named for a mid-20th century gay Harvard American studies scholar and literary critic who chaired the undergraduate program in history and literature.

" Matty " Matthiessen and Marxist economist Paul Sweezy, who were former colleagues at Harvard University with a shared interest in establishing a radical national magazine to fill the void between rigid Communist Party orthodoxy on the one hand and the ideological atrophy of the Socialist Party on the other.

" The ULA also reported the connection between the CIA and Matthiessen, in May, 2005, in an article by Richard Cummings, who has described himself as " a member of the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, having served on the Board of the AFIO-New England chapter.

The magazine attracted writers such as Peter Matthiessen, Terry McMillan, Garry Wills, Alex Heard, Sousa Jamba and Nancy Franklin, but despite a circulation of 120, 000, and despite being financially successful, ceased publication when the Gulf War broke out in 1991 and the economy entered a recession.

Halliday's An Introduction to Functional Grammar ( in the third edition, with revisions by Christian Matthiessen ) sets out the description of these grammatical systems.

Peter Matthiessen fictionalized the story in his Watson trilogy ( Killing Mister Watson, Lost Man's River, Bone by Bone ), and retold the " Watson Legend " in Shadow Country.

( Foreword by Peter Matthiessen.

In 1953, Plimpton joined the influential literary journal The Paris Review, founded by Peter Matthiessen, Thomas H. Guinzburg, and Harold L. Humes, becoming its first editor in chief.

Matthiessen included a statement by Banks about the rape accusation and drunk driving incident.

Matthiessen funds made the launch of Monthly Review possible, although the amount of the seed money was reduced to $ 4, 000 per year in the second and third years by the executors of Matthiessen's estate following his suicide in 1950.

Although Matthiessen was the financial angel of the new publication, from the outset the editorial task was handled by Sweezy and his co-thinker, the left wing popular writer Leo Huberman.

Tassinari in his book states that Florio ’ s style was highly appreciated, first by his friend playwright Ben Jonson and poet, brother in law, Samuel Daniel ; then by Florio ’ s biographers Clara Longworth de Chambrun ( 1921 ), Frances Yates ( 1934 ) and critics Felix Otto Matthiessen ( 1931 ) and André Koszul ( 1931 ).

It is normally a very good approximation to combine their influences using " Matthiessen's Rule " ( developed from work by Augustus Matthiessen in 1864 ):

* At Play in the Fields of the Lord, a novel by Peter Matthiessen

At Play in the Fields of the Lord ( 1991 ) is a drama film directed by Héctor Babenco adapted from the 1965 novel of the same name by American author Peter Matthiessen.

The Paris Review is a quarterly literary magazine established in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton.

In 2007, an article published by The New York Times supported the claim that founding editor Matthiessen was in the CIA but stated that the magazine was used as a cover, rather than a collaborator, for his spying activities.

This article publicized the fact first revealed by Matthiessen himself to author Frances Stonor Saunders in her 1999 book " The Cultural Cold War.

Their personal experiences are well documented by Matthiessen in his book, The Snow Leopard.

She is the publisher of the famous literary magazine The Paris Review, which was started in 1953 by Peter Matthiessen, Thomas H. Guinzburg, and Harold L. Humes, and edited until his death in 2003 by George Plimpton.

Based on a short story by Peter Matthiessen called " Travelin ' Man ", it tells the story of Traver, a black jazz musician on the run after a white woman has accused him of rape.

" The company again went bankrupt, and was reorganized by F. W. Matthiessen in 1888 as the " Western Clock Manufacturing Company.

In 1949, Sweezy and Leo Huberman founded a new magazine called Monthly Review, using money from historian and literary critic F. O. Matthiessen.

A revised edition was published in 1994, and then a third, in which he collaborated with Christian Matthiessen, in 2004.

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Critic F. O. Matthiessen called this " trilogy " James's major phase, and these novels have certainly received intense critical study.

Lopez along with Peter Matthiessen, Terry Tempest Williams, and James Galvin, was hailed in Mark Tredinnick's The Land's Wild Music ( Trinity University Press, 2005 ) in which Tredinnick analyzed how the landscape nourished and developed Lopez's writing.

Matthiessen inspired the Decemberists to retell the story as " E. Watson " in their EP Long Live the King.

In Paris, he became friends with writers Romain Gary, George Plimpton, Peter Matthiessen, James Baldwin, James Jones and Irwin Shaw, among others.

He was one of the founding editors of The Paris Review along with Thomas Guinzburg, Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, George Plimpton and John P. C. Train.

those who wrote them knew people and what made people tick.

I don't even remember who wrote it but it was one of those 15th or 16th century poets.

Others who wrote of low characters and low life included Thomas Bangs Thorpe, creator of the Big Bear Of Arkansas and Tom Owen, the Bee-Hunter ; ;

so Cyrus Adler became interested in her friend Racie Friedenwald, and Joe Jastrow -- the only young man who when he wrote had the temerity to address her as Henrietta, and signed himself Joe -- fell in love with pretty sister Rachel.

and in her forthright way, Henrietta, who in her story of Sara had indicated her own unwillingness `` to think of men as the privileged '' and `` women as submissive and yielding '', felt obliged to defend vigorously any statement of hers to which Morris Jastrow took the slightest exception -- he objected to her stand on the Corbin affair, as well as on the radical reforms of Dr. Wise of Hebrew Union College -- until once, in sheer desperation, he wrote that he had given up hope they would ever agree on anything.

The day passed eventfully enough, with a constant stream of visitors, some stopping only to say hello, others getting into serious conversations, such as one Andre Fuchs, a free-lance journalist from Strasbourg who wrote an article for the Nouvelle Alsatian in highly sympathetic terms.

No one, he wrote, took any corn of Greville's, for his bailiff of husbandry `` swore a greate oathe thatt who soe came to put hys hande into hys sackes for anye corne shuld leave hys hande behynde hym ''.

He said he was a friend of Heywood Broun who had run a free employment bureau for several months during the depression, but the generous Broun to whom I wrote did not know his name and I somehow conceived the morbid notion that the man in question was prowling round the house.

Then there was Mark Howe and there was Henry Dwight Sedgwick, an accomplished man of letters who wrote in the spirit of Montaigne and produced in the end a formidable body of work.

Mr. Burlingham, -- `` C.C.B. '' -- wrote to me once about an old friend of mine, S. K. Ratcliffe, whom I had first met in London in 1914 and who also came out for a week-end in Weston.

With a pardonable irony Shelley wrote to the father who had publicly disowned his daughter:

But in order to keep Letch in the public eye and out of trouble, I wrote in a part especially for him -- that of a dashing ruffian who `` sees the light '' and is saved by the inspiring example of Mother Cabrini.

Thus in Mary wrote an account of the trip first strong stress on Mary marks Mary as the first in a series of people who wrote accounts of the trip, strong stress on wrote marks the writing as the first of a series of actions of Mary's concerned with an account of her trip ( about which she may later have made speeches, for example ), and strong stress on trip makes the trip the first of a series of subjects about which Mary wrote accounts.

Under the 1939 Code this item was permitted to survive a tax-free reorganization in the Stanton Brewery case, but only over the dissent of Judge Learned Hand, who wrote the majority opinion in the Sansome case, a leading case requiring carryover of earnings and profits in a non-taxable reorganization.

In lieu of the amanuensis to the blind or illiterate bard, one may conceive of a man who heard a vast store of oral poetry recited, and became intimately familiar with the established aids to poetizing, and himself wrote his own compositions or his edition of the compositions of the past.

On December 9, 1862, Sergeant Edwin H. Fay, an unusual Louisianan who held A.B. and M.A. degrees from Harvard University and who before the war was headmaster of a private school for boys in Louisiana, wrote his wife: `` I saw Pemberton and he is the most insignificant puke I ever saw.

A Massachusetts soldier, who seems to have been a Civil War version of Bill Mauldin, wrote: `` the officers consider themselves as made of a different material from the low fellows in the ranks.

If there had been, he would have found a loophole, because Arnold is one golfer who knows the code as thoroughly as the man who wrote the book.

I make this observation about the lady, Miss Judy Garland, because she brought up the subject herself in telling a story about a British female reporter who flattered her terribly in London recently and then wrote in the paper the next day:

Averroes, Avicenna and Alpharabius, who wrote on Aristotle in great depth, also influenced Thomas Aquinas and other Western Christian scholastic philosophers.