Epstein's grandfather, Philip G. Epstein, and great-uncle, Julius J. Epstein, won Academy Awards for the screenplay of Casablanca, while his father, the novelist Leslie Epstein, is the head of the Creative Writing Program at Boston University.

Writing about her father Alexius's seizing of Imperial throne in 1081, Anna Komnene notes that he was advised not to attack the Varangians who still guarded the Emperor Nikephoros for the Varangians " regard loyalty to the emperors and the protection of their persons as a family tradition, a kind of sacred trust.

Writing about Hayden's role in the 1960s New Left, Nicholas Lemann, national correspondent for The Atlantic, said that " Tom Hayden changed America ", calling him " father to the largest mass protests in American history ", and Richard N. Goodwin, who was a speechwriter for presidents Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy, said that Hayden, " without even knowing it, inspired the Great Society.

She is Related to Salmaan Taseer who is Her Sister Son and ( Pakistan PPP leader ) who became the Governor of Punjab in 2008 and in January 2011 he was assassinated by his body guard Mumtaz Qadri and Christobels Daughter is Salmaa Mahmud Taseer who is Writing the Biograpphy of Her Late father M D Taseer

Writing to his father in August 1815 he said ' I should be out of my wits at the attention paid me here, I have an audience daily of savants, artists & amateurs who come and see my drawings ; envoys and ambassadors beg to know when it will be convenient for me to show them some sketches ; Prince Poniatowski and Prince Saxe-Gotha beg to be permitted to see them ...'.

Writing to his father on 28 December saying he had purchased copies of Domenico Fontana's Della transportatione dell ' obelisco Vaticano e delle fabriche di Sisto V and Martino Ferraboschi's Architettura della basilica di S. Pietro in Vaticano.

Writing in the journal International Socialism, Paul Blackledge remarked that it was " more than a little ironic " that the Miliband brothers were in positions of power in the Labour Party considering that their father was the author of Parliamentary Socialism ( 1961 ), a powerful critique of that party and its policies.

He won the Dick Schaap Award for Outstanding Writing at the 2005 Emmys, an award named after his father, for an Outside the Lines feature titled " Finding Bobby Fischer.

Writing of his father, John Nyren says he " never saw a finer specimen of the thoroughbred old English yeoman than Richard Nyren ", who was " a good face-to-face, unflinching, uncompromising, independent man ".

' Writing long before the controversy, Leon McBeth testifies to the importance of Benajah Harvey Carroll's legacy to Baylor University and Southern Seminary as well as to modern Baptist history, describing the man as ' the John Wayne of Texas Baptists.

Writing in 1914, Eleanor Maddock noted that in Kashmir, since the arrival of Europeans, " many of the old customs are disappearing – and one of these is the dreadful custom of the execution of criminals by an elephant trained for the purpose and which was known by the hereditary name of ' Gunga Rao '.

An early, undated, statement of purpose articulates the founding vision of The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards as:

Writing in private in 1916, Brandeis described men like Lowell " who have been blinded by privilege, who have no evil purpose, and many of whom have a distinct public spirit, but whose environment — or innate narrowness — have obscured all vision and sympathy with the masses.

The Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing has been awarded since 1917 for distinguished editorial writing, the test of excellence being clearness of style, moral purpose, sound reasoning, and power to influence public opinion in what the writer conceives to be the right direction.

Writing SMILES for substituted rings in this way can make them more human-readable.

Writing to his sister after the premiere, Britten said of his music, " I hope it'll make people think a bit.

Writing in the Global Association of Risk Professionals, Aaron Brown, a vice president at Morgan Stanley, says " By any standard of human fairness, of course, investment bankers make obscene amounts of money.

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Writing in the Lancashire Telegraph, the MP said that Muslim women who wear full veils make " better, positive relations " between communities more difficult and that failing to show the mouth and nose was " a visible statement of separation and of difference.

Writing to colleague Asa Gray in 1860, Darwin commented that he remembered well a " time when the thought of the eye made me cold all over, but I have got over this stage of the complaint, & now small trifling particulars of structure often make me very uncomfortable.

Having learned about Thomas on the day of his death, Washingtonian writer Katie McCabe brought his story to public attention for the first time in a 1989 article entitled " Like Something the Lord Made ", which won the 1990 National Magazine Award for Feature Writing and inspired filmmaker Andrea Kalin to make the PBS documentary " Partners of the Heart ," which was broadcast in 2003 on PBS's American Experience and won the Organization of American Historians's Erik Barnouw Award for Best History Documentary in 2004 .< ref >

Writing in The New York Times, Vincent Canby called it " a rollicking musical memoir .... Weller's inventions make this Hair seem much funnier than I remember the show's having been.

In 2006 Weldon was appointed Professor of Creative Writing at Brunel University in West London: " A great writer needs a certain personality and a natural talent for language, but there is a great deal that can be taught – how to put words together quickly and efficiently to make a point, how to be graceful and eloquent, how to convey emotion, how to build up tension, and how to create alternative worlds.

Writing about the metaphorical aspects of the film's setting — somewhere in the Mediterranean — film critic Elena Past says that the underwater scenes, because they are central to the storyline, make The Life Aquatic similar in some ways to Respiro.

Writing for Allmusic, critic Vincent Jeffries wrote the album " fulfills expectations to a degree, but the songwriter's weakened comedic instincts and extreme sincerity make Songs for a Dying Planet a difficult recommendation.

He wrote, “ I was ashamed of myself, and make haste now to declare that the mortification of pride I then endured ... ended in a resolution to study the whole matter .” Writing about Christianity helped him become clear about his own ideas and beliefs.

Writing to the cast, Genet advised: " You can break it play into pieces and then glue them back together, but make sure that it holds together.

" He has also stated: " Writing has always been my recourse when I've tried to make sense of my experience or when it's been very painful.

: Writing is an instrument for conveying ideas from one mind to another ; the writer's job is to make his reader apprehend his meaning readily and precisely.

Writing an article about little-studied Puritan funeral services, Ulrich included the phrase " well-behaved women seldom make history.

In his preface to the printed edition, Dryden explained he had had to adapt the libretto to the changed political circumstances of 1691: " But not to offend the present Times, nor a Government which has hitherto protected me, I have been oblig'd so much to alter the first Design, and take away so many Beauties from the Writing, that it is now no more what it was formerly ..." He also made alterations to suit Purcell's musical needs: " the Numbers of Poetry and Vocal Musick, are sometimes so contrary, that in many places I have been oblig'd to cramp my Verses, and make them rugged to the Reader, that they may be harmonious to the Hearer: Of which I have no Reason to repent me, because these sorts of Entertainments are principally design'd for the Ear and the Eye ; and therefore in Reason my Art on this occasion, ought to be subservient to his.

Joan Abelove participates in a critique group with Gail Carson Levine, writer of Ella Enchanted and Writing Magic, a guide for child authors who wish to make their stories better.

During the late 1970s he acquired a large public audience as a critic of the then Labour government's disregard of civil liberties ; his writings from this time are collected in Writing By Candlelight ( 1980 ).

Writing for radio while attempting to avoid the draft, Fellini met his future wife Giulietta Masina in a studio office at the Italian public radio broadcaster EIAR in autumn 1942.

SFWA sponsors the Writer Beware Blog, the public face of their Committee on Writing Scams, to expose problems and pitfalls that face aspiring writers.

Writing for the majority, Justice Edward Terry Sanford declared that " utterances inciting to the overthrow of organized government by unlawful means, present a sufficient danger of substantive evil to bring their punishment within the range of legislative discretion .... Such utterances, by their very nature, involve danger to the public peace and to the security of the state.

Many public libraries give Memoir Writing classes that are geared towards senior citizens.

* Writing directly to members of the public ( either via a professional marketing firm or, particularly on a small scale, by volunteers )

Features include the Munn Writing Center, the " treehouse " study areas, two public computer labs, and a 24-hour study room.

A letter from the thief appears in the newspaper, telling the public that he will not give back A Lady Writing until they prove which Vermeer paintings were truly painted by him.

Writing under the sobriquet of " A Calm Observer ," in 1796 he charged that, among other heinous offenses, George Washington had stolen public funds and that he richly deserved impeachment.

Writing in such a candid manner regarding sex was met with disdain by the majority of the public at the time.

Writing in the New York Press, Michael Manville accused Thabit of poor research, sweeping generalizations, and a failure to distinguish the actions of racist individuals from the effects of a racist capitalist system, and contends that much of the urban renewal and public housing efforts of the period were in fact well-intentioned, if ill-considered and hubristic.

Writing Coventry's biography in the Encyclopaedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition, Philip Chesney Yorke stated that " though Sir William Coventry never filled that place in the national administration to which his merit and exceptional ability clearly entitled him, his public life together with his correspondence are sufficient to distinguish him from amongst his contemporaries as a statesman of the first rank.

Writing in 2006, Vladimir Tismăneanu criticized Brucan, arguing that, despite his renunciation of Communism, Brucan had continued to support authoritarianism in public life and to display a taste for intrigue, and that he had attempted to transform the FSN into a " big party ", virtually replacing the PCR.

Writing a few short stories, he had a notable impact in the cultural life of French-speaking West Africa as a public radio producer.

Writing in the book Misunderstanding Cults: Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field, contributor Julius H. Rubin complains that the term has been used to discredit certain groups in the court of public opinion.

* Writing cryptic, mysterious or inspirational phrases or quotes in public places — not necessarily as graffiti, though that is one possibility, but also as handwritten notes left here and there, or in other forms.

Writing in 1898, Mille took pride in calling his newspaper " a daily encyclopedia " or " cinema " for the regular public, universally available at only 5 bani per copy.

Writing for the Chicago Sun Times, Jeff Shannon described the episode thus: " Clearly aware that taking sides in the right-to-life debate would be a divisive, no-win strategy, Parker and Stone aimed their satirical arrows at the one aspect of the Schiavo case that's indisputably offensive: the horrendous media circus that turned a private matter into a shamefully public spectacle.

Writing Mercy Otis Warren in 1776, he agreed with the Greeks and the Romans, that, " Public Virtue cannot exist without private, and public Virtue is the only Foundation of Republics.

* Writing graffiti on anything that will be seen by the public.