Word: distinguishedness
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I was stunned. With one stroke, Professor Darnton arrogantly and ignorantly attempts to destroy the reputation of the entire Fourth Estate of the United States—indeed one of the great pillars of our democratic system. Moreover, he clearly has little respect for his distinguished brother, John Darnton, who...
By contrast, should historians of the future ignore such brilliant works of reportage as Lawrence Wright’s The Looming Tower or Dexter Filkins’ masterful account of his period in Iraq—The Forever War? Indeed, I have seen first-hand how rigorously Mr. Wright, a...
The Iranian-born Mofaz, 60, is selling himself to Kadima voters as a longtime soldier ever-vigilant against Israel's enemies in the region. Mofaz distinguished himself through battlefield bravery as a corporal and then rose through the ranks to become army chief of staff and, later, Defense Minister. Officers...
Over the years, square residents have included distinguished academics, including Harvard president James B. Conant ’14 and poet Simon Kuznets, in addition to other Harvard professors.
Sittenfeld's first novel, Prep, was distinguished by the dead-on observations of upper-class life by a working-class narrator--a narrator, one imagines, not unlike Sittenfeld herself, who was jolted from Cincinnati to the rarefied precincts of the Groton School in Massachusetts. There is a similar class consciousness...