booker prize winner anne enright wrote of her in the guardian in 2012. a world traveler in mind and body, o'brien was as likely to imagine the longings of an irish nun as to take in a man's “boyish smile” in the midst of a “ponderous london club." she...
the highly educated yousafzai clearly understood that in the rigid class system of pakistan he was an invisible member of the rural underclass, unseen by the elite of lahore and karachi. for his family, a moment on national news was huge. like his daughter, ziauddin spoke excellent english. ...
She was educated in the United States at Mount St. Scholastica (Benedictine College) and the University of Pittsburgh, as well as the University of Nairobi in Kenya. In 1977, Maathai founded the Green Belt Movement, an environmental non-governmental organization focused on the planting of trees,...
Even better, thanks to the private tutors who’d educated her in her youth, Vera not only knew who Trumbull was, she understood how valuable a rendering of George Washington by his hand could be. With this knowledge, Vera traveled to Philadelphia, hoping to make money off the tiny thing...
“She was an educated woman at a time when they were uncommon,” he said in a memoir published in 2010. “From early on I came under herupliftinginfluence.” uplifting / ˌʌpˈlɪftɪŋ/ adj.令人振奋...
Born and educated in Russia, Rand moved to the United States in 1926. In 1957, she published her best-known work, the novel Atlas Shrugged. Afterward she turned to nonfiction to promote her philosophy, publishing her own magazines and releasing several collections of essays until her death in...
Here isa post I wroteduring my own year abroad about the history of the American Girls Art Club in Paris, which includes some of my own photos to accompany the book. I’m posting a few more below. They may not be the best quality, but hey, I was there and it was cool. You get...
Well, that’s just it. The script hadn’t even been written. Prowse was just making an educated guess. And George Lucas was clearly making things up as he went along. He kept having Leia lay gross, incestuous smooches on Luke as late as the second movie, for god’s sake. Who’s to...
This memoir, ‘a text of singular strangeness’ (Foucault, 1975: 198), was an extraordinary achievement for an imprisoned, little-educated nineteenth century peasant. It had as much impact on our twenty-first century readers as it did on Foucault and his team. There were however, striking dif...
He admitted, “I think we could have educated ourselves better about how all of this worked and what it meant to people, because all of a sudden… we were caught in a shitstorm and people were, like, 'Metallica, they're really greedy and money hungry,' and it had nothing — nothing ...