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...I blame George Herbert Leigh-Mallory, the English mountaineer who participated in the first British Mount Everest expeditions in the early 20th century....
...“It’s probably the number one concern in the marketplace right now,” said Hugh MacArthur, chair of Bain’s private equity practice....
...Sensing their obsolescence in the modern world (though General MacArthur has left town, their grandson is learning English) Ma and Pa go home....
...One of the oddest aspects of the novel is the peculiar contract that it forges — how wonderfully ambiguous is the English language — between itself and the reader....
...For obvious reasons, sailors often turn to green causes — think of the UK’s Ellen MacArthur and her campaigns against plastic waste — and I worried when I started reading Le Naufrage de Venise that it would...
...Vuong is preoccupied with the normalisation of violence in English. “You smashed it. You killed it,” he recites....
...In sparring with another Democrat, Ted Deutch of Florida, Mr Barr said sarcastically: “I think I speak English.”...
...The eclectic experts Alex MacArthur, Sussex“I love big pieces, both in terms of scale and impact, and there are no limits here,” says antiques dealer Alex MacArthur of her eponymous shop set in a 14th-century...
...A 2005 MacArthur “Genius” Grant winner and a one-time member of President Obama’s Commission of Fine Arts, Fernández was born in 1968 in Miami to parents who had fled the Castro regime in Cuba....
...She, with better English, was eternally curious, as if we were an escape from the confines of the household....
...It is also a holiday destination that benefits from US jurisdiction and the English language....
...These are people who don’t speak English.”...
...She has a Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and a MacArthur Fellowship. Ward lives in Mississippi with her family. What books are currently on your bedside table?...
...The company, with 130 employees and reportedly valued at more than $700m, generates its income from ads, sponsorship and sales of its English language test....
...In over a century of awards, writers who work in English and in other European languages are by far the largest group....
...Lee has supported himself by making figurative sculpture, including a statue of General MacArthur: “I don’t define this activity as art,” he has said....
...The headmistress of my school, Haverstock comprehensive school, was a woman named Valerie Jenkins, and she taught me English....
...US-based visual artists Kara Walker, Fred Wilson, Carrie Mae Weems and Njideka Akunyili Crosby are all MacArthur “Geniuses”....
...Walker is a major artist, a MacArthur Fellow, her formidable work widely seen and as widely debated....
...It was, to start with, a play: In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, written by Tarell Alvin McCraney, a MacArthur Fellowship-winning playwright....
...She is a 2005 MacArthur Foundation fellow and the recipient of awards including a Guggenheim fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts artist’s grant and a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial award...
...In 2012, the MacArthur Foundation awarded him a “genius” grant. We find a table at the rear of the sparse but bright indoor section....
...After she’d put 36 teenagers in an intensive programme to learn English – a coveted skill in the airport hotels – there was a water shortage in Annawadi....
...It offers 39 courses, including Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French, German and Italian for English speakers, and English for Russian, Polish, Japanese and Hindi speakers....
...Already a formidable linguist, she spoke German and English at home but also French, Russian and Spanish and picked up Japanese from her schoolmates....
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