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Adrienne Rich Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich 1929-, American poet, b. Baltimore, grad. Radcliffe, 1951. Since the 1970s her volumes of exquisitely wrought verse have increasingly reflected feminist and lesbian themes. Among her volumes of poetry are A Change of World (1951), Diving into the Wreck (1973), The Dream of a... Read more
Jean Monnet Jean Monnet
Jean Monnet , 1888-1979, French economist and public official, proponent of European unity. In World War I, Monnet served on the Inter-Allied Maritime Commission, an international committee designed to secure war materials, foodstuffs, and shipping facilities for the Allies. He was later (1919-23)... Read more
Jean Renoir Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir , 1894-1979, French film director and writer, b. Paris; son of Pierre Auguste Renoir. He made his first film in 1926. Gathering around him a devoted coterie of actors and technicians, Renoir developed a collective approach to filmmaking, favoring improvisational acting, open-air... Read more
Georges Braque Georges Braque
Georges Braque , 1882-1963, French painter. He joined the artists involved in developing fauvism in 1905, and at l'Estaque c.1909 he was profoundly influenced by Cézanne. He met Picasso, and the two simultaneously explored form and structure with results that led to the development of ... Read more
Condemnation Condemnation
121. Condemnation bell, book, and candle symbols of Catholic excommunication rite. [Christianity: Brewer Note-Book, 85] Bridge of Sighs passage from Doge’s court to execution chamber in Renaissance Venice. [Ital. Hist.: Brewer Note-Book, 121] Eurydice doomed to eternal death when... Read more
Robert Lowell Robert Lowell
Robert Lowell (Robert Traill Spence Lowell 4th), 1917-77, American poet and translator, widely considered the preeminent poet of the mid-20th cent., b. Boston, grad. Kenyon College (B.A., 1940). A grandnephew of James Russell Lowell , in 1940 he converted to Roman Catholicism and married the... Read more
Alexis de Tocqueville Alexis de Tocqueville
Alexis de Tocqueville , 1805-59, French politician and writer. He was prominent in politics, particularly just before and just after the Revolution of 1848 (see revolutions of 1848 ), and was minister of foreign affairs briefly in 1849. His observations made in 1831 during a government mission to... Read more
Louis Isadore Kahn Louis Isadore Kahn
Louis Isadore Kahn , 1901-74, American architect, b. Estonia. He and his family moved to Philadelphia in 1905, and he later studied at the Univ. of Pennsylvania. From the 1920s through World War II, Kahn worked on numerous housing projects including Carver Court (1944), in Coatesville, Pa. He also... Read more
Albert Schweitzer Albert Schweitzer
Albert Schweitzer , 1875-1965, Alsatian theologian, musician, and medical missionary. Determined to become a medical missionary, he obtained a doctorate in medicine at the Univ. of Strasbourg and in 1913 established a hospital at Lambaréné, Gabon (then in French Equatorial Africa).... Read more

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