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Bolster said that the award is given to writers of high caliber whose books have received acclaim in academic circles...
...help its least advantaged members; one created within a framework of wide basic personal liberties and an equality of opportunity for all members regardless of birth. His effort to blend egalitarianism and liberalism into a comprehensive framework that both recognized moral responsibilities and their practical motivations earned him acclaim and provoked vigorous debate from his colleages at Harvard and beyond...
Langewiesche’s book, American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center met with critical acclaim, but has angered many by portraying some firefighters in an uncomplimentary light. Among other criticisms, Langewiesche alleges that some firefighters engaged in looting while the first of the Twin Towers burned. The outraged reaction of firefighters and others, although understandable, seems to be primarily a knee-jerk attempt to maintain the status of firefighters as transcendent heroes, even in the face of evidence that indicates some of them to be less than perfect...
Satisfying your superhero jones can be tough when you're a comix snob like me. Finding a book with the right combination of highbrow intelligence and lowbrow kicks has gotten nearly impossible. Fortunately the world still has Alan Moore, the English comicbook writer who first achieved stateside acclaim in the 1980s with "The Watchmen." For the last couple of years Moore has been the principle writer of multiple titles under the America's Best Comics imprint of Wildstorm Productions (an imprint of DC Comics, a subsidiary of TIME.com's parent corporation, AOL Time Warner). Out of the various projects, "League...
Kentridge went on to make seven more films in the Soho Eckstein series, each winning increasing international acclaim. In 1997, his work was featured in “Documenta X,” a cutting-edge art show in Kassel, Germany, which launched him into the spotlight. In 1998, filmmaker Reinhard Wulf and art historian Maria Anna Tappeiner filmed Drawing the Passing, a documentary on Kentridge’s creation of Stereoscope, the eighth film in the Soho Eckstein series. This documentary helped bring his work to wider audiences. Stereoscope premiered at the Museum of Modern Art in New York...