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12 de may. de 2024 · Winston S. Churchill won the Nobel Prize for Literature for "his mastery of historical and biographical description." Nowhere is that mastery more evident than in Great Contemporaries, first published in 1937. Written in the decade before Churchill became prime minister, these portraits of notable figures of his age offer wisdom for our own. With keen observations and telling anecdotes ...
Hace 4 días · Hillsdale College was founded in 1844 by men and women who proclaimed themselves “grateful to God for the inestimable blessings resulting from the prevalence of civil and religious liberty and intelligent piety in the land,” and who believed that “the diffusion of sound learning is essential to the perpetuity of these blessings.”
29 de abr. de 2024 · Great Contemporaries: Stanley Baldwin, A Case for Magnanimity. By FRED GLUECKSTEIN. | April 29, 2024. Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin (center) with Churchill (r) and Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain. (Library of Congress) “Will the bloody duck swim?”
3 de may. de 2024 · Churchill’s Critics: Jibes, Ripostes and Insults. “Here endeth the last chapter of the Book of Jeremiah.” (Leo Amery). WSC rails against the India Act while MacDonald and Baldwin slumber on the Government front bench, 28 November 1934. (Cartoon by Vicky, public domain)
13 de may. de 2024 · 18 Famous Renaissance Artists Who Achieved Greatness. During the Renaissance, art experienced radical and unprecedented development. This article lays out all the important painters, sculptors, and architects whose masterpieces helped transform the world of art. May 13, 2024 • By Mia Forbes, BA in Classics.
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2 de may. de 2024 · In 1534, Michelangelo left Florence for Rome, never to see his native city again. He was 59, which many contemporaries regarded as old, but for Michelangelo this move marked the beginning of a dramatic new chapter which would fundamentally shape his experiences as an artist and as a man.
Hace 4 días · We should read the giants because they offer us guidance, especially to writers, who will use them as indispensable points of departure. Bloom was often disappointingly evasive about who he thought our great contemporaries were — he’d mention people like Toni Morrison, Don DeLillo, Thomas Pynchon, and Philip Roth — but only sporadically.
