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...would be the most wonderful thing imaginable!” he said. “‘Tree’ would be a most distinguished senator—he brings every conceivable talent to bear: he’s brilliant, he’s politically sophisticated, and he has a heart of gold...
...Rachael L. Goldberg ’12 said that Armitage’s reading exposed her to a new experience, “Reading his poems and hearing him read them were two very different experiences,” she said. “Simon Armitage was amazing, brilliant, and hilarious.” Armitage is the vice president of the Poetry Society and a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, He has been described by Harvard English Professor and leading American poetry critic Helen Vendler as “a narrative poet in lyric dress, or a lyric poet...
...Engels was just 24 - 24! - when he detailed that something else in The Condition of the Working Class in England in 1844, a work that is at once brilliant reportage and a sustained cry of outrage that makes Charles Dickens' Hard Times - which covers much the same ground - read like sentimental tosh. Not the least of Hunt's achievements is to show how what Engels saw in Manchester provided the essential factual underpinning for the theoretical work on capitalism that he and Karl Marx would later produce. (Read: "Marx's Engels...
Friedrich Engels, the son of a comfortable German family in the textile business who had been sent to work in Manchester, was just 24 when he wrote The Condition of the Working Class in England--a brilliant book whose subject would provide the factual underpinning to the analysis of capitalism that Engels and his friend Karl Marx later produced. Hunt, a British historian, details the way Marxism would not have been possible without Engels, an unlikely revolutionary who worked for years as a high-living, foxhunting capitalist to support Marx's endeavors--Engels' devotion was such that he even assumed...
...Leon was an absolute brilliant scholar who read widely across many fields in a way that is more usual in the past than it is today,” said Kleinman...