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Burr was born in Nahant, MA. in 1915 to Isaac T. Burr, class of 1906, and Evelyn Thayer...
...Where’s my coffee?” mused Evelyn Tate...
...English and French colonies of Africa have characteristically placed neither Africans nor their colonial masters at the helm of colony or independent state. Graham Greene saw Syrians controlling both the legitimate economy and the black market in his rendering of a British colony in West Africa. For Evelyn Waugh’s archetypical, if imagined, post-independence “Azania,” it was the Armenians. For Flashman, the eponymous troublemaker of George Fraser’s series of adventure novels, non-British collaborators (“colonized” persons themselves) were the fulcrum of imperial administration...
...author says that one of his models for Transmission was the fiction of English satirist Evelyn Waugh. When he exposes the inner workings of a Korean online role-playing club, hilariously parodies a Bollywood plot or offers a careful study of how tomatoes are stacked in a California supermarket, Kunzru shows he can do everything a gifted satirist is meant to do. Except perhaps for the most important thing. Waugh's critiques of the modern world's shallowness are set off against a sense of a Christian past that has been lost, a past that can be regained...
Professor of History and of African and African American Studies Emmanuel K. Akyeampong and Thomas Professor of History and of African and African American Studies Evelyn B. Higginbotham told the Faculty Council on Wednesday about the new African Studies concentration, which Akyeampong said was approved last month by the Educational Policy Committee—a body that advises Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby...