Word: memoire
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lawrence of Arabia - soldier, swashbuckler, scholar - is one of the 20th century's most compelling adventurers. The exploits of the British officer and military strategist during the Arab Revolt of 1916-18 inspired David Lean's 1962 film, and Lawrence's vivid memoir of Arab guerrilla warfare in the book Seven Pillars of Wisdom has become suggested reading for British military personnel in Iraq. Though it's been 70 years since he died on May 19, 1935, in a motorcycle accident near his home in Dorset, England, T.E. Lawrence's popularity endures. In October, the exhibition, "Lawrence of Arabia...
Lawrence of arabia?soldier, swashbuckler, scholar?is one of the 20th century's most compelling adventurers. The exploits of the British officer and military strategist during the Arab Revolt of 1916-18 inspired David Lean's 1962 film, and Lawrence's vivid memoir of Arab guerrilla warfare in the book Seven Pillars of Wisdom has become suggested reading for British military personnel in Iraq. Though it's been 70 years since he died on May 19, 1935, in a motorcycle accident near his home in Dorset, England, T.E. Lawrence's popularity endures. In October, the exhibition, "Lawrence of Arabia...
...Jets in 1969's Super Bowl III--the last game of his 11-year career--that helped push the Jets to their storied 16-7 upset of the heavily favored Baltimore Colts; of heart disease; in Philadelphia. An early "trash talker," he winkingly acknowledged his reputation in a 1970 memoir, Confessions of a Dirty Player...
After an introduction by Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Philosophy at Princeton K. Anthony Appiah, Soyinka himself took the podium. Soyinka read “A Digression on the Purpose of Accident,” an excerpt from a memoir-in-progress he expects to publish next year...
Kumin’s publisher Carol Smith began working with the poet on her 1992 book Poets’ Prize-winning book “Looking for Luck.” Since then, she has worked with Kumin on five other books, including a memoir...