Word: thompson
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WILLIAM MORRIS by E.P. THOMPSON 829 pages. Pantheon...
...freedom of labor-for the REVOLUTION." This belief permeates the 24 volumes of Morris' collected works. Rebellion was the connective tissue of his life. For reclamation, Morris needed the attentions of a Marxist historian: that event did not come until 1955, with the publication of Edward Thompson's William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary...
...away of inessentials. "I demand a free and unfettered animal life for man first of all: I demand the utter extinction of all asceticism. If we feel the least degradation in being amorous, or merry, or hungry, or sleepy, we are so far bad animals, and therefore miserable men." Thompson's book is not only the standard biography of Morris; it makes us realize, as no other writer has done, how completely admirable a man this Victorian was - how consistent, how honest to himself and others, how inca pable of cruelty or jargon and, above all, how free. Robert...
Ames Astrophysicist Edwin Erickson. The team leader, Rodger Thompson of Arizona, who announced the find at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Atlanta, declared the MWC 349 observations to be "a spectacular step forward in the theories of planet and star formation...
Some of the visitors were less political. Hunter S. Thompson, gonzo journalist, told the Law School Forum audience that women lawyers were "some kind of mutant," and Chevy Chase, former actor on Saturday Night Live, did not trip on his way into the auditorium where he spoke this spring...