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The writer had an unprecedented familiarity with the social environments, traits, opinions, manners of speech, means of expression and lifestyle choices of his day — from the rural atmosphere of his early childhood, going through his vast experience as a journalist, to the high spheres of politics ( National Liberal as well as Conservative, Junimist as well as socialist ).
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When Fred Powell's brother-in-law, Charlie Keane, moved into the dead man's home, the anonymous letter writer took no chances on Charlie taking up where Fred had left off and wasted no time on a first notice:
Some, she knew, looked upon Thompson almost as a saint, but others read in `` The Hound Of Heaven '' what they took to be the confessions of a great sinner, who, like Oscar Wilde, had -- as one pious writer later put it -- thrown himself `` on the swelling wave of every passion ''.
like Malraux he was also serving in the tank corps before being captured, and we learn as well that in civilian life he had been a writer.
A British writer, Richard Haestier, in a book, Dead Men Tell Tales, recalls that in the turmoil preceding the French Revolution the body of Henry 4,, who had died nearly 180 years earlier, was torn to pieces by a mob.
She was the widow of a writer who had died in an airplane crash, and Mickie had found her a job as head of the historical section of the Treasury.
Since the writer had established this democratic procedure in the beginning he had to go along with their decision -- after, of course, pointing out whether he thought their decision was a wise or an unwise one.
Though it did not become known to the writer for some time, a nucleus group had sprung up within the class.
Since the writer had not noticed this characteristic in married students scattered throughout the various sections previous to this experiment, nor, as a matter of fact, in those who were continuing in `` single sections '', he can only conclude that there must have been something `` contagious '' within the specific group which caused this to occur.
Just yesterday we had met and talked with a living writer, a contemporary of the dead poet, who is known for his ability of manipulating his ideas and his craft more advantageously.
Harlan Ellison ( who began reading van Vogt as a teenager ) wrote, " Van was the first writer to shine light on the restricted ways in which I had been taught to view the universe and the human condition.
It is evident from these particulars that Abrasax was the name of the first of the 365 Archons, and accordingly stood below Sophia and Dynamis and their progenitors ; but his position is not expressly stated, so that the writer of the supplement to Tertullian had some excuse for confusing him with " the Supreme God.
Notwithstanding the distinction he enjoyed as a tragic poet, he appears to have had greater merit as a writer of epic poems, elegies, epigrams, and cynaedi.
* 1735 – Freedom of the press: New York Weekly Journal writer John Peter Zenger is acquitted of seditious libel against the royal governor of New York, on the basis that what he had published was true.
They were furthered by American Spectator writer David Brock in his 1993 book The Real Anita Hill, though he later recanted the claims he had made, described his book as " character assassination ", and apologized to Hill.
As a military writer, his position in the evolution of the art of war is very important, and his doctrines had naturally the greatest weight.
The Life of Ceolfrith, written in about 710, records that only two surviving monks were capable of singing the full offices ; one was Ceolfrith and the other a young boy, who according to the anonymous writer had been taught by Ceolfrith and was " now a priest of the same monastery ".
According to the writer Timothy Dufort, by 1969, all Church of England bishops had acquired Old Catholic lines of apostolic succession recognised by the Holy See.
In December 2011, more than a year after the official reboot announcement, the Los Angeles Times site reported that Whit Anderson, the writer picked for the new Buffy movie, had her script rejected by the producers behind the project, and that a new writer was being sought.
But, because the writer had an incomplete and erroneous view of historical details in the second half of the sixth century, Daniel ’ s era, such imbalances support the theory of a late date of writing.
The German physician and medical writer Justus Hecker suggested that a mistranslation of the Latin atra mors ( terrible, or black, death ) had occurred in Scandinavia when he described the catastrophe in 1832 in his publication " Der schwarze Tod im vierzehnten Jahrhundert ".
The traveling Dominican clergyman and writer Bartolomé de las Casas estimated that the neo-Taino population of Cuba had reached 350, 000 by the end of the 15th century.
Parkinson and his wife divorced in 1952 and he married the writer and journalist Ann Fry ( 1921 – 1983 ), with whom he had two sons and a daughter.
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Eisenhower's profit on the book was substantially aided by an unprecedented ruling by the Treasury Department that Eisenhower was not a professional writer, but rather, marketing the lifetime asset of his experiences, and thus only had to pay capital gains tax on his $ 635, 000 advance instead of the much higher personal tax rate.
His performance was described by a Guardian writer as bringing " unprecedented depth to a character [...] who is more commonly portrayed as just another horrible Dickens git.
According to Ivo Eterović, a writer and photographer with unprecedented decades-long access to Yugoslavia's ruling couple, " the main culprits for the Tito-Jovanka split are that pig Stane Dolanc and General Nikola Ljubičić ".
The author – known as a suspense writer following the publication of her previous book, Strangers on a Train – became notorious due to the story's latent lesbian content and happy ending, the latter having been unprecedented in homosexual fiction.
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In his 2002 lookback, Roger Ebert noted with surprise that the film had " an instant familiarity " despite its age, and Slant writer Jaime N. Christley found the one-liners " still gut-busting after 35 years ".
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William Styron, while facing the changing economy with a certain uneasy reluctance, insists he is not to be classified as a Southern writer and yet includes traditional Southern concepts in everything he publishes.
He may be the only song writer ever to have collaborated with a secretary of the U. S. Treasury ; ;
I disagree with the writer who says funeral services should be government-controlled.
Forty years ago an English writer, W. L. George, dealt with this subject in Eddies of the Day, and said, as an example, that ' Saint George for Merry England ' would not start a spirit half so quickly as ' Strike frog-eating Frenchmen dead ' ''!!
Now, with virtually every writer, not only was the European origin of public law acknowledged as a historical phenomenon, but the rules thus established by the advanced civilizations of Europe were to be imposed on others.
That a writer who is gay cannot be serious is a common professional illusion, sedulously fostered by all too many academics who mistakenly believe that their frivolous efforts should be taken seriously because they are expressed with that dreary solemnity which is the only mode of expression their authors are capable of.
And while every writer must be dealt with as a special case, the interested student will want to ask himself a number of questions about each.
When the writer uses material does he tamper with it to improve its commercial effect or does he leave it pure??
The present writer certainly agrees with that statement, and would also affirm this -- in the order of justice.
Then, with the hymn writer of old, you can say:
One is not sure who emerges as the main personality of this book -- Mijbil, with his rollicking ways, or Maxwell himself, poet, portrait painter, writer, journalist, traveller and zoologist, sensitive but never sentimental recorder of an unusual way of life, in a language at once lyrical and forceful, vivid and unabashed.
A writer for the Boston Post referred to Alcott's " Orphic Sayings " as " a train of fifteen railroad cars with one passenger.
Albert was a voluminous letter writer, and corresponded with many of the leading personages of the time.
For example, Alfonso halted his army in pious respect before the birthplace of a Latin writer, carried Livy or Caesar on his campaigns with him, and his panegyrist Panormita even stated that the king was cured of an illness when a few pages of Quintus Curtius Rufus ' history of Alexander the Great were read to him.
Washington Irving, a prominent American writer with a European reputation, was approached by John Jacob Astor to mythologize the three-year reign of his Pacific Fur Company.
Atomic semantics are defined for a variable with a single writer but multiple readers.
Of particular concern to Indian drama and literature are the term ' Bhava ' or the state of mind and rasa referring generally to the emotional flavors / essence crafted into the work by the writer and relished by a ' sensitive spectator ' or sahṛdaya or one with positive taste and mind.
This trend has also encouraged fake autobiographies, particularly those associated with ' misery lit ,' where the writer has allegedly suffered from being a part of a dysfunctional family, or from social problems, or political repression.
Hesser lives in Brooklyn Heights with her husband, Tad Friend, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and their three children.
For example, if one purchases many risky bonds, then hedges them with CDSes, profiting from the difference between the bond spread and the CDS premium, in a financial crisis the bonds may default and the CDS writer / seller may itself fail, due to the stress of the crisis, causing the arbitrageur to face steep losses.
* Lucy Irvine ( b. 1956 ), writer, lived very briefley in the Summer Isles Hotel with her father, who owned it and the Hydroponicum.
Director and script writer Sam Raimi drew from a variety of sources, including literature with A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court and Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and films like The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad, Jason and the Argonauts, and The Three Stooges.
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