Word: subjection
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...architect and artist? NFW: I think people were afraid of him during his lifetime...He was so prickly, so opinionated, that no one wanted to work with him. Why no one tackled it since then I don’t know. I don’t know why the subject has proved so daunting. He was definitely what we would call a control freak in every aspect of his life. There is so much about this man—love affairs, politics, [and] you have his willingness to work with Lenin, Mussolini, Petain, de Gaulle, Nehru, and the American...
...Food is an extremely interesting subject,” says Harvard alum Jeffrey L. Steingarten ’64, food columnist for Vogue, frequent judge on the Food Network’s “Iron Chef America,” and acclaimed food essayist. “It’s certainly more important than sex. If you want to know which subject is really more interesting to the human race, just fast for 36 hours.”Over the past few decades Harvard has taken the message behind Steingarten’s comments to heart. Formerly...
...writer's life as cool and undeluded as Naipaul's former friend Paul Theroux's was rivetingly emotional. Though he remains deeply sympathetic to Pat, who gave herself over without complaint to a man she was convinced was a genius, French is otherwise as plainspoken as his subject: the critic Clive James is "an ill-favoured Australian humorist." Naipaul's second wife Nadira he calls "dyslexic, emotional, fairly scandalous...
...hard for you to be objective toward the subject matter? Jeff Juhnke, RIVERSIDE, CALIF...
...English department overwhelmingly approved the largest overhaul of its undergraduate concentration in over 20 years on Tuesday afternoon. The new program would sweep away all the current requirements except Shakespeare and replace them with four subject areas or “affinity groups...