Tise Vahimagi, writing for the British Film Institute's Screenonline, agreed and commented that " it was the hesitant exchanges of one-upmanship between Le Mesurier's Wilson, a figure of delicate gentility, and Arthur Lowe's pompous, middle-class platoon leader Captain Mainwaring that added to its finest moments.

In a 2003 collection of essays in honour of Eileen Barker, the influential Oxford University-based religious scholar Bryan R. Wilson commented that INFORM was " often in a position from which it can reassure relatives about the character, disposition, policy, provenance and prospects of a given movement.

John Wilson in Blackwood's Magazine 1833 – 1835, collected and commented on the labours of these and other translators, including indifferent attempts of William Hay.

Following the signing, Ducks head coach Ron Wilson commented that " A veteran player is much better prepared to play with guys like Teemu and Paul.

City councilman John A. Wilson commented that “ What started out to benefit the minority community at large has meant some politically influential blacks can move out to posh suburbs .”

Wilson protested to Lloyd George, who commented that Haig ’ s attitude was “ very stupid & short sighted but agreed we could not force Haig at this moment “.

Callwell ’ s 2 volume “ Life and Diaries ” in 1927 damaged Wilson ’ s reputation – the “ New Statesman ” thought they showed him to be “ the typically stupid militarist … fundamentally a fool ” Sir Charles Deedes, who had studied under him at Staff College and later served on his staff, commented that Wilson came across in the diaries as “ an ambitious, volatile and even fatuous character, an intriguer concerned mainly with his own career ” and that this was “ far from the truth ” – Deedes commented that Wilson ’ s ability to see both sides of a question and inability to make a decision and stick to it made him a poor corps commander but a “ patient, lucid and fair ” adviser.

Both Archibald Wavell in the 1930s and Sir John Dill as CIGS in 1941 ( who commented that he no longer condemned Wilson ” so heartily as one used to ”) commented that Wilson had illustrated that a general must be able to work effectively with politicians, and his modern biographer Keith Jeffery comments that this, rather than Robertson ’ s acrimonious insistence on military autonomy, has been the model since Wilson ’ s time.

After Novak's death, David Frum commented that the whole episode had been ironic given that Richard Armitage, Joe Wilson, Valerie Plame, and Novak all had exactly the same opinions against a potential war in Iraq.

Halfway through his passing out memberships, Wilson decided that his actions might not be deemed ethical by congress and commented that he " was ethicized right out of business.

" For me that is so insulting ", commented Wilson in an interview with The Dutch Progressive Rock Page, " because it insinuates that you are living in the shadow of some other band.

Wilson commented about that session:

When Filner noted that the US provided Iraq with " chemical and biological weapons " in the 1980s, Wilson incorrectly stated that this idea was " made up " and commented to Filner, " This hatred of America by some people is just outrageous.

Both Allmusic and Rolling Stone commented that Ray Wilson was a fitting new vocalist for Genesis, but that the album is wholly lacking in good material.

* Robert Anton Wilson, polymath, author, philosopher, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian, ( edu.

* Hosts ( novel ), a 2001 book written by American author F. Paul Wilson

* 1920 – Sloan Wilson, American author ( d. 2003 )

* Corporeal Reality radio interview with David Wilson and author Aimee Bender, 2006

* 1940 – Eric Wilson, Canadian children's author.

* 1947 – Valerie Wilson Wesley, American author

Robert Anton Wilson ( born Robert Edward Wilson, January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007 ), known to friends as " Bob ", was an American author and polymath who became at various times a novelist, philosopher, psychologist, essayist, editor, playwright, poet, futurist, civil libertarian and self-described agnostic mystic.

Stephen McEveety will lead the production team and author N. D. Wilson has been tapped to write the script.

** Wilson Rawls, American author ( d. 1984 )

* January 18 – Robert Anton Wilson, American author ( d. 2007 )

Trilogy and is a favorite author of Robert Anton Wilson.

This is not the view of Jeremy Wilson, The Authorised Biography of T. E. Lawrence ( ISBN 0-689-11934-8 ) or the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography A Prince of Our Disorder, John E. Mack, ( ISBN 0-316-54232-6 ).

According to author Daniel J. Wilson, the characteristics of masculinity include strength, activeness, speed, endurance, and courage.

* Sloan Wilson, the author of The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

* Wilson Rawls, author of Where the Red Fern Grows and Summer of the Monkeys

" Playwright August Wilson used the term " ghetto " in Ma Rainey ’ s Black Bottom ( 1984 ) and Fences ( 1987 ), both of which draw upon the author ’ s experience growing up in the Hill district of Pittsburgh, a black ghetto.

Wilfrid Wilson Gibson ( 2 October 1878 – 26 May 1962 ) was a British Georgian poet, associated with World War I but also the author of much later work.

* Janisse Ray, author and setting of her memoir Ecology of a Cracker Childhood ( the maternal side of her family-tree — two pages before its title-page — begats also from Wilson Baxley " for whom the town was named ").

* Woodrow Wilson, US president ( summer resident at author Winston Churchill's Harlakenden House )

* S. Michael Wilson, author.

* Sloan Wilson, author

Major League Baseball player Madison Bumgarner hails from Hudson and author Jan Karon attended school here during her elementary years and John Wilson was recreation director for many years as well.

Many influential politicians are associated with Univ including the social reformer and author of the Beveridge Report William Beveridge ( who was a master of University College ) and two UK Prime Ministers: Clement Attlee and Harold Wilson ( a Univ fellow ).

* Brandon Wilson, graduate of Moon Area High School, author / explorer

Baker took the plan to Wilson who said: `` Baker, this is plainly right on any ground.

Wilson, on his first Sunday, witnessed this with something like disgust.

Anticipating delivery of medicines and yeast by plane, Granite City citizens formed an airfield committee and with the aid of quarrymen and the 172nd Infantry, Vermont National Guard, laid out runways on Wilson flat, high on Millstone Hill.

The first few days Bob Fogg set his plane down on Towne field back of the State House when the wind was right, and used Wilson flat above Barre when it wasn't.

With Hudson looking on, his protege Greene picked a fight with the ship's surgeon, Edward Wilson.

The issue was settled on shore, Greene winning and Wilson remaining ashore, determined to catch the next fishing boat back to England.

Henry Hall Wilson, a student at the music camp 25 years ago and now on the President's staff as liaison representative with the House of Representatives, turned guest conductor for a Sousa march, the `` Stars and Stripes Forever ''.

He said he contacted a friend, Henry Hall Wilson, on the President's staff and asked whether his orchestra could play, in the series.

Wilson, who defines androids as a " synthetic human being ", distinguishes between three types of androids, based on their body's composition:

The novel is still among the most famous of all detective novels: Edmund Wilson alludes to it in the title of his well-known attack on detective fiction, " Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?

* 1917 – World War I: President Woodrow Wilson asks the U. S. Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.

Life on Earth, by Wilson, E .; Eisner, T .; Briggs, W .; Dickerson, R .; Metzenberg, R .; O ' brien, R.

Towns Hospital, but not before drinking four beers on the way – the last time Wilson got drunk.

Wilson's early efforts to help others become sober were ineffective, prompting Dr. Silkworth to suggest that Wilson place less stress on religion and more on " the science " of treating alcoholism.

After thirty days of working with Wilson, Smith drank his last drink on June 10, 1935, the date marked by AA for its anniversaries.

By 1946, as the growing fellowship quarreled over structure, purpose, and authority, as well as finances and publicity, Wilson began to form and promote what became known as AA's Twelve Traditions, guidelines for an altruistic, unaffiliated, non-coercive, and non-hierarchical structure that limited AA's purpose to only helping alcoholics on a non-professional level while shunning publicity.

False-color image of the rapidly rotating star Altair, made with the MIRC imager on the CHARA array on Mount Wilson Observatory | Mt.

He is one of ten San Francisco Giants to appear on the cover, along with Kelly Downs, Rick Reuschel, Willie Mays ( nine times ), Alvin Dark, Juan Marichal, Will Clark, Tim Lincecum ( twice ), Brian Wilson, and Buster Posey.

BSC was formed from the assets of former private companies which had been nationalised, largely under the Labour Party government of Harold Wilson, on 28 July 1967.

The US Federal Reserve was created by the U. S. Congress through the passing of The Federal Reserve Act in the Senate and its signing by President Woodrow Wilson on the same day, December 23, 1913.

However, Wilson and Larry Walker spent much of the season on the disabled list, forcing the Rockies to play Matt Holliday, who had been slated to start the season at Triple-A.

Helton and Wilson — virtually the only experienced players on the team — struggled as well ; Helton hit just 20 homers, the fewest of his career, and missed the All-Star Game for the first time since 1999 and also went on the disabled list for the first time in his career.