He may have been taught various subjects, it is reasonably conjectured, by his future stepfather, who besides painting portraits and cutting engravings eked out a living in Boston by teaching dancing and, beginning September 12, 1743, by conducting an " Evening Writing and Arithmetic School ", duly advertised.

Writing in 1872, church historian William Stephens said “ The Patriarch of the Eastern Rome appeals to the great bishops of the West, as the champions of an ecclesiastical discipline which he confesses himself unable to enforce, or to see any prospect of establishing.

Brian Moynahan, in his book God's Messenger: William Tyndale, Thomas More and the Writing of the English Bible, takes a similarly critical view of More, as does the American writer Michael Farris.

WarGames was nominated for three Academy Awards — Best Cinematography ( William A. Fraker ), Sound ( Michael J. Kohut, Carlos Delarios, Aaron Rochin, Willie D. Burton ), and Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen ( Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes ).

Writing in 2000, David Roffe argued that the inquest ( the survey ) and the construction of the book were two distinct exercises ; the latter being completed, if not started, by William II following his assumption of the English throne and quashing of the rebellion that followed and based on, though not consequent on, the findings of the inquest.

* Writing as " William Irish ", Cornell Woolrich published Waltz into Darkness ( 1947 ), set in 1880 New Orleans.

American William Rose wrote the screenplay, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay and won the BAFTA Award for Best British Screenplay.

It was nominated for Academy Awards for Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( William Bendix ), Best Director, Best Picture and Best Writing, Original Screenplay.

* Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay ( William Rose )

Writing shortly before Geoffrey of Monmouth, William added much to the damnatio memoriae of Vortigern: " At this time Vortigern was King of Britain ; a man calculated neither for the field nor the council, but wholly given up to the lusts of the flesh, the slave of every vice: a character of insatiable avarice, ungovernable pride, and polluted by his lusts.

Writing in 2005, the New York Times language columnist William Safire attributed the term ( in its modern usage ) to conservative blogger Andrew Sullivan, who wrote on June 1, 2003: I have a new term for those on the fringes of the religious right who have used the Gospels to perpetuate their own aspirations for power, control and oppression: Christianists.

The school newspaper of the University of Kansas is University Daily Kansan, which placed first in the Intercollegiate Writing Competition of the prestigious William Randolph Hearst Writing Foundation competition, often called " The Pulitzers of College Journalism " in 2007.

* Academy Awards: Oscar, Best Cinematography, Black-and-White, Lionel Lindon ; Best Director, Robert Wise ; Best Film Editing, William Hornbeck ; Best Sound, Gordon E. Sawyer ( Samuel Goldwyn SSD ); Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium.

Writing in a lyrical, flowing style that eschews excessive use of the comma and semicolon, recalling William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway in equal measure, Cormac McCarthy's body of work seizes on the literary traditions of several regions of the United States and spans multiple genres.

Writing for Allmusic, critic William Ruhlman wrote the album was " Al Kooper's finest work, an album on which he moves the folk-blues-rock amalgamation of the Blues Project into even wider pastures, taking in classical and jazz elements ( including strings and horns ), all without losing the pop essence that makes the hybrid work.

* Altman, William H. F. Altruism and the Art of Writing: Plato, Cicero, and Leo Strauss, Humanitas Spring-Fall, 2009

" Writing in 1880, William Edward Hall judged that " any sort of previous declaration therefore is an empty formality unless the enemy must be given time and opportunity to put himself in a state of defence, and it is needless to say that no one asserts such a quixotism to be obligatory.

* Jay Miller: Soldier of the Class War: The Life and Writing of William E. Trautmann, Wayne State University, 2000.

He was co-editor ( with William Bright ) of the book The World's Writing Systems ( 1996 ), and he introduced the terms abjad ( an " alphabet " with no vowel letters ) and abugida ( a system partly alphabetic, partly syllabic ) as modern linguistic terms for categories of scripts.

* 1996 editor ( with William Bright ): The World's Writing Systems.

* Covenant and Community: the Life and Writing of Pilgram Marpeck, by William Klassen

* Covenant and Community: the Life and Writing of Pilgram Marpeck, by William Klassen

Writing with J. Andrew Keith as Keith William Andrews.

* Writing Scotland: William McIlvanney: Writing Scotland, BBC Scotland

Writing in the Meiji era, Lafcadio Hearn ( 1902 ) described a baku with very similar attributes that was also able to devour nightmares.

Writing in 1790, Bewick described it as the largest and most beautiful of the dog kind ; about 36 inches high, generally of a white or cinammon colour, somewhat like the Greyhound but more robust.

Writing for the New York Times shortly after the flight, however, journalist Arthur Krock described mixed feelings in the United States due to fears of the spaceflight's potential military implications for the Cold War, and the Detroit Free Press wrote that " the people of Washington, London, Paris and all points between might have been dancing in the streets " if it were not for " doubts and suspicions " about Soviet intentions.

" Writing in The New York Times, Anthony Boucher — described by a Fleming biographer, John Pearson as " throughout an avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man "— was again damning of Fleming's work, saying " it's harder than ever to see why an ardent coterie so admires Ian Fleming's tales ".

Writing in 2001, legal scholar Richard Posner described Uncle Tom's Cabin as part of the mediocre list of canonical works that emerges when political criteria are imposed on literature.

Writing in The New York Times, Anthony Boucher – described by a Fleming biographer, John Pearson, as " throughout an avid anti-Bond and an anti-Fleming man " – was damning in his review, saying that From Russia, with Love was Fleming's " longest and poorest book ".

Writing at the end of the 17th century, Francisco Ximénez described the tradition that upon the temple human sacrifices were tied before the representation of Tohil, where the priest would open the victim's chest and cut out his heart.

* Pechenik Citation Style is a style described in A Short Guide to Writing about Biology, 6th ed.

Writing in 1941, a newspaper reporter described the colliery as " beautifully landscaped.

Writing in 1684 he described Wigtown as an indifferently, but well-built town with a large, broad street.

Writing in the " Arthur Murray Silver Dance Notebook ", Lauré Haile, who first described " Western Swing ", listed the following songs / records as " Good Swing or Fox Trot Records ":

Writing Culture helped bring changes to both anthropology and ethnography often described in terms of being ' postmodern ,' ' reflexive ,' ' literary ,' ' deconstructive ,' or ' poststructural ' in nature in that the text helped to highlight the various epistemic and political predicaments that many practitioners saw as plaguing ethnographic representations and practices.

Writing for the Spanish journal La Vanguardia, commentator Sergio Vila-Sanjuán described the first volume of Eliade's Autobiography ( covering the years 1907 to 1937 ) as " a great book ", while noting that the other main volume was " more conventional and insincere.

* April 10: Writing again from Monroe, Howard described the situation: " Men galloping about-guns getting ready-wagons being filled and hurrying off, and everybody in commotion.

Writing for Allmusic, John Dougan described the genre's origins:

Writing to Charles I, Wentworth described Ormonde as " young, but take it from me, a very staid head ".

Writing for music website Allmusic, Mark Deming described Vincebus Eruptum as " a glorious celebration of rock & roll primitivism run through enough Marshall amps to deafen an army ", praising the band's " sound and fury " as one of the founding movements of heavy metal.

Writing to Derwent Coleridge, Moultrie's close friend Bonamy Price described the reciprocal influence of these two men.

Writing in 1850, the British diplomat Sir Henry Charles Sirr described a visit to one of the elephants that had been used by Sri Vikrama Rajasinha, the last king of Kandy, to execute criminals.

Writing for the New York Times, Ralph Thompson states, “ the normal life of Negroes in the South today – the life with its holdovers from slave times, its social difficulties, childish excitements, and endless exuberances … compared to this sort of story, the ordinary narratives of Negroes in Harlem or Birmingham seem ordinary indeed .” For the New York Herald Tribune, Sheila Hibben described Hurston as writing “ with her head as with her heart ” creating a “ warm, vibrant touch .” She praised Their Eyes as filled with “ a flashing, gleaming riot of black people, with a limitless sense of humor, and a wild, strange sadness .” New York Times critic Lucille Tompkins described Their Eyes, “ It is about Negroes … but really it is about every one, or at least every one who isn ’ t so civilized that he has lost the capacity for glory .”

Writing in Salon. com, Joyce Millman disputed that Ally McBeal should even be described as a " women's show " -- that its representations of women were, in fact, a male fantasy.

Writing of her Radio 2 debut, Daily Telegraph radio critic, Gillian Reynolds described Feltz's voice as " like lemon tea with honey.

Writing in his 1998 classification, Rice recognized two of the subspecies of the common minke whale-B. a. scammoni ( Scammon's minke whale ) and a further ( taxonomically ) unnamed subspecies found in the Southern Hemisphere to which he gave the common name the dwarf minke whale ( first described by Best, 1986 ).

Writing of the " unusual excitement on the subject of religion " described in the First Vision story canonized by the LDS Church, Milton V. Backman, associate professor of history and religion at Brigham Young University, said that although " the tools of the historian " could neither verify nor challenge the First Vision, " records of the past can be examined to determine the reliability of Joseph's description regarding the historical setting.