Word: eminentance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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In Lytton Strachey, English Biographer Michael Holroyd argues that the author of Eminent Victorians belongs in the forefront of the Bloomsberries, and then substantiates the claim through 1,229 improbably fascinating pages. Strachey's is one of the legitimately original voices of the era, and it has suffered from...
Marshmallow Bogs. Eminent Victorians was a light at the end of a tunnel for its author too. The eleventh of 13 children of a Victorian soldier-scientist, Lytton Strachey grew up as the most squirrelly member of a pandemoniously eccentric household. The grotesque English public school system did little for...
Until 1942, Ridruejo was a member of the Spanish fascist party, the Falange. That year he left the party and entered a period of introspection from which he was to emerge a democrat and a socialist, in complete opposition to Franco. His conversion is a source of his pre-eminent...
Instead of one pre-eminent Negro spokesman like King-or two or three like Walter White, Roy Wilkins and Thurgood Marshall in the '40s and early '50s-there are dozens today, each speaking for Negroes in his own area or in his own economic or social sphere. A...
R.U., as its students call it, was founded by John D. Rockefeller in 1901 as the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research. Since that time, its hospital and laboratories overlooking the East River have attracted some of the world's most eminent scientists. Rockefeller researchers, including eight Nobel prize winners...