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...Following a brief first marriage, she wedded William McCormick Blair Jr, the former US ambassador to Denmark, in 1961....
...You Don’t Know Us Negroes, a new collection of Hurston’s essays, edited by Henry Louis Gates Jr and Genevieve West, demonstrates once again how ill suited she was to the role of a solemn and respectable...
...Ako Mitchell as ragtime pianist Coalhouse Walker Jr, whose reaction to personal injustice drives the main narrative thread, does not even appear until more than half an hour into the show, but this does...
...Blaž Istenič, Jesenice, Slovenia Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery, by Henry Marsh Angry, compassionate, tragic and inspiring....
...As bigoted small-town firemen made monkey noises at ragtime pianist Coalhouse Walker Jr, I was reminded of a news story that had broken barely hours earlier reporting that such hideous mockery is still common...
...One of the most grandiloquent, the Lincoln Memorial – designed by Henry Bacon and dedicated in 1922 – in Washington DC, is dominated by the martyred president, literally colossal in stature but also in the...
...Contractors as well as employees are said to have shivered at the sight of Ritblat’s Bentley outside the office....
...This can lead to attention-stealing questions, such as: Do you copy all your ideas from JR Tolkien? Did you mean your books to be stupid? Are you a leprechaun?...
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