obituarist

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obituarist

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No other writer of this generation ever cast so potent a spell on the youth of England," his obituarist claimed.

Sorry dad.. but Compton Mackenzie has bumped you from my list of great Scots; THE BIG READ HEROES' OBITUARIES TELL A NEW STORY OF NATION Magnus Linklater had an agonising choice in his collection of 100 legends - whether to include his novelist father

His friend and obituarist, John Robson, stated that "the impulse of a strong fancy made him a wanderer--the commercial man and the explorer in one.

William Eppes Cormack (1796-1868): The later years

Over the years, I've written on a lot of different subjects: I was "Musical Theatre Correspondent" for The Independent in London, and obituarist for The Atlantic over here.

Why the right keeps doing it wrong: liberal takeover almost complete

She referred to me at the time as her premature obituarist," he says.

Dame of thrones; CELEBRATING 80 YEARS OF DAME MAGGIE SMITH; Arch, wry and publicity shy, a rare look into the life of our national treasure; EXCLUSIVE

His obituarist exclaimed with no exaggeration that ''it is hardly possible to exaggerate the importance of this final and signal recognition on Mr Feeney's part of the true duties of citizenship''.

Feeneys were good news for Brum; Carl recalls the benevolence of newspaperman John Feeney, a man who was determined to pay back the city which made his name

Early death is often seen as a kind of martyrdom, and Dawson's, it would seem, gave both him and his work an almost saintly status in some quarters: "Within a century, people will revere him as the God-man I believe him to be," an obituarist wrote.

Piltdown man

early readers, including her obituarist, felt that she "destroyed

Emotions in translation: Helen Maria Williams and "Beauties Peculiar to the English Language"

Darbey's obituarist (Manitoba Free Press, 26 August 1922) emphasized the esteem afforded this fur man in whose shop ".

Edward Darbey, taxidermy, and the last buffaloes

It was Boston Democratic City Councilman Dapper O'Neil who, in the words of his Boston Globe obituarist, "railed against feminists, gays, and immigrants.

Mass. hysteria: scenes from the revolutionary takeover of Ted Kennedy's Senate seat

In fact, he outlived his obituarist, Alan Walker, who died in 2004.

Learning the Art of Writing Obituaries

But the claim made by one obituarist in an English newspaper that before Baxandall "most art history [in Britain] had been written from the viewpoint of connoisseurship and attribution" is an exaggeration.

When attitudes became form: Christopher S. Wood on Michael Baxandall (1933-2008)

Edward Carpenter was the first brown-rice-and-sandals socialist--or, rather, since that particular cliche is a later coinage, the first 'sandals-and-song socialist', as one obituarist dubbed him posthumously in 1929.