• Benjamin Haile DeMott (June 2, 1924, Rockville Centre, New York – September 29, 2005, Worthington, Mass.) was an American English professor and cultural...
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    the new sensibility" (1965) In a contemporary review of the book, Benjamin DeMott of The New York Times praised Against Interpretation as "a vivid bit...
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  • police in 1960. In the course of reviewing that biography, critic Benjamin DeMott said Arvin's "penetrating books about Hawthorne and Whitman...were...
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  • reviewer also commented that the entries on legends were "delightful". Benjamin DeMott in The New York Times also complimented the book, stating that it was...
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    Park was published in 1969, and received a devastating review from Benjamin DeMott on the front page of The New York Times Book Review: "John Cheever's...
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  • York Times book critic Benjamin DeMott disliked the novel, whereas critic Anatole Broyard deemed it an enjoyable success. DeMott thought that Gardner was...
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    David Rieff (category Lycée Français de New York alumni)
    the Lycée Français de New York and attended Amherst College as a member of the class of 1974, where he studied under Benjamin DeMott. He completed college...
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    (PDF) from the original on April 8, 2011. Retrieved April 6, 2011. Demott, Benjamin (October 2004). "Whitewash as Public Service". Harper's Magazine. Harpers...
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  • bringing him back to the restaurant to finish their meal together. Benjamin DeMott, wrote in his 1982 New York Times book review: "Dinner at the Homesick...
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    MacLeish Papers at Mount Holoke College Archibald MacLeish's Grave Benjamin DeMott (Summer 1974). "Archibald MacLeish, The Art of Poetry No. 18". The...
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    series and Godric, received praise; in his 1980 review of Godric, Benjamin DeMott summed up a host of positive reviews, saying "All on his own, Mr. Buechner...
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    Mott the Hoople were a British rock band formed in Herefordshire in 1969. Originally named the Doc Thomas Group, the band changed their name after signing...
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    History, 1956–1992 Constance Congdon, Playwright-in-Residence, 1993–2018 Benjamin DeMott, Prof. of Humanities, 1950–1990, 1990–2005 (Emeritus) Lawrence Douglas...
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  • spirituality’. In his review, published in New York Times Book Review, Benjamin DeMott presented the author as a ‘major talent’: ‘Frederick Buechner’, he...
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  • pornographer Boyd McDonald in the New York Native and the novelist Benjamin DeMott in The New York Times Book Review. Novels portal Mailer 1983, pp. 3–709...
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  • Olga de Alaketu, 80, Benin-born Brazilian Candomblé high priestess, complications of diabetes. Patrick Caulfield, 69, British artist. Benjamin DeMott, 81...
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  • even in the shoddiest, phoniest aspects of a cultural wasteland.’ Benjamin Demott’s review of the tetralogy, published in the Atlantic, made comparisons...
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    Philip Roth in Esquire, Wilfrid Sheed in Book-of-the-Month Club News, Benjamin DeMott in The Atlantic, Mordechai Richler in the Chicago Tribune, and Steven...
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  • staged a protest at a speaking engagement at the college with Dr. Benjamin DeMott. Members of the The Flaming Faggots Collective [sic] alleged his political...
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  • independent young woman and the life she eventually fashions for herself. Benjamin DeMott, reviewing it for The New York Times, wrote that Unravelling "creates...
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    countries. Mott MacDonald is one of the largest employee-owned companies in the world. Mott MacDonald was formed in 1989 through the merger of Mott, Hay and...
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  • Pritchard, Varnum names "William E. Coles, Jr., Roger Sale, Walker Gibson, Benjamin DeMott, William R. Taylor, Jonathan Bishop, John Butler, Richard Poirier,...
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  • Europe. BRILL. p. 232. ISBN 978-90-04-11030-4. Retrieved 29 March 2012. Benjamin DeMott, The Sources and Development of John Wilkins' Philosophical Language...
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    Japanese novel. Cornell University Press. p. 185. ISBN 978-0-8014-8035-5. DeMott, Benjamin; Berger, Arthur Asa (2003). Supergrow: essays and reports on imagination...
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  • 1929–1992". Journal of Mammalogy. 73 (4): 940. doi:10.2307/1382223. "Djairo Guedes de Figueiredo". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2023-07-14...
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    Mary Clarkson, daughter of Thomas Clarkson. Benjamin Haydon, the painting's creator, had intended to give Mott a prominent place in the painting. However...
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    Benjamin Oliver Davis Sr. (July 1, 1877 – November 26, 1970) was a career officer in the United States Army. One of the few black officers in an era when...
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  • Archived from the original on 11 September 2014. Retrieved 9 September 2014. DeMott, Rick (21 December 2000). "Chicken Run Lays A Golden Globe Nom". Animated...
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  • Christian, while Edge and Jericho fought with each other. Bill DeMott entered at #9. DeMott started attacking all the participants and nearly eliminated...
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  • keyboard player John St. John. Nigel Benjamin, an English vocalist who had sung for glam rock band Mott (formerly Mott the Hoople) and English Assassin,...
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