Example sentences for: alan

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  • Mark Alan Stamaty: Recent Works

  • Movie -- An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn ;

  • Is there an automatic place for the top consciousness-raising tracts of the fifties (David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd ), sixties (Norman O. Brown's Love's Body ), seventies (Christopher Lasch's The Culture of Narcissism ), and eighties (Alan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind )? A tempting (and sensible) option is to split the difference between influence and style by picking the top books about the major events of the century: Communism (snubbing Whittaker Chambers's Witness would be a scandal), race and colonialism (Gunnar Myrdal's An American Dilemma , Octavio Paz's The Labyrinth of Solitude ); modern art (Woolf's A Room of One's Own , alas; Edmund Wilson's Axel's Castle , if To the Finland Station misses under Communism); and the Holocaust (with Anne Frank's diary likely to top the whole list).

  • Reading the Alan Brinkley-Sarah Lyall "Breakfast Table" on the subject of British press provincialism, I was horrified to see your American correspondents describe a Blue Peter presenter (recently fired for snorting coke) as a "minor celebrity."

  • I guess Alan Greenspan had better get ready to feel Friedman's wrath."


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