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Leon Kirchner
Leon Kirchner 1919-, American composer, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. Kirchner studied at the Univ. of California at Berkeley with Ernest Bloch, Arnold Schoenberg, and Roger Sessions. He was professor of music at Harvard (1961-91). Although he uses many of the most modern techniques of composition, including e...
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Roger Ward Babson
Roger Ward Babson 1875-1967, American businessman and statistician, b. Gloucester, Mass. In 1904 he founded the Babson Statistical Organization, Inc., whose business and financial statistics, published in Babson's Washington Service, are widely sold in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada...
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Lyman Copeland Draper
Lyman Copeland Draper 1815-91, American historical collector and librarian, b. Erie co., N.Y. He spent years traveling through an area ranging from New York to Mississippi, gathering the stories of old pioneers and documentary material on frontier history for a projected series of biographies of We...
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Edmund Sears Morgan
Edmund Sears Morgan 1916-, U.S. historian, b. Minneapolis. After receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1942, he taught at the Univ. of Chicago (1945-46) and at Brown (1946-55) before becoming (1955) professor of history at Yale. An expert on American colonial history, Morgan writes in a way that appe...
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John Bright
John Bright 1811-89, British statesman and orator. He was the son of a Quaker cotton manufacturer in Lancashire. A founder (1839) of the Anti-Corn Law League, he rose to prominence on the strength of his formidable oratory against the corn laws . A staunch laissez-faire capitalist, and, with Richa...
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Roger Martin du Gard
Roger Martin du Gard , 1881-1958, French novelist. Long associated with the Nouvelle Revue française, he first gained recognition with Jean Barois (1913), a novel of France during the Dreyfus Affair . His fame, however, rests chiefly on his eight-part novel cycle The World of the Thibau...
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Roger Sessions
Roger Sessions 1896-1985, American composer and teacher, b. Brooklyn, N.Y. Sessions was a pupil of Horatio Parker at Yale and of Ernest Bloch. He taught (1917-21) at Smith, leaving to teach at the Cleveland Institute of Music as Bloch's assistant. With Aaron Copland he organized (1928) the Copland-...
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Pierre Bonnard
Pierre Bonnard , 1867-1947, French painter, lithographer, and illustrator. In the 1890s he was associated with the Nabis . His delight in familiar views of everyday life was transmitted to canvas with joy and gentle fantasy. Sometimes called an intimist, he explored the play of sunlight in domestic...
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Anthony Frederick Blunt
Anthony Frederick Blunt 1907-83, English art historian and Soviet spy, grad. Cambridge. Director of the Courtauld Institute of Art after 1947 and professor of the history of art at the Univ. of London, Blunt also served from 1952 as Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures and was one of the most powerful ...
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Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Protocols of the Elders of Zion a fraudulent document that reported the alleged proceedings of a conference of Jews in the late 19th cent., at which they discussed plans to overthrow Christianity through subversion and sabotage and to control the world. The Protocols first appeared in their entir...
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