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The Nation hailed his inauguration as a victory for the left, a sentiment not shared by some inside the academy, who have noted Said's increasingly critical views about the radical postcolonial scholars who have followed in his footsteps.
On boulevard des Capucines, retrace the footsteps of Renoir, Manet, and Pissarro as they took their paintings to Nadar’s house, signposted at number 35, for the historic 1874 exhibition of Impressionism.
Although they now form part of the modern state of Greece, a deep imprint of history’s footsteps can be seen clearly on every dusty hill, in every olive grove, and along every coastline.
The latest installment in the Grisham legal thriller franchise gets good press: It's "personal, moving and much deeper" than his previous books, writes Deirdre Donahue in USA Today . Critics say this one is better because Grisham goes beyond his usual dabbling in social causes and injects honest-to-God Christian spirituality, and with success: "Grisham's smart use of the suspense novel to explore questions of being and faith puts him squarely in the footsteps of Dickens and Graham Greene" ( Publishers Weekly ). A few reviewers find the overt Christianity preachy and self-righteous, but most say it improves an otherwise standard page-turner.
This devil-may-care attitude to the quaint rules of English spelling follows firmly in the illustrious footsteps (or perhaps penstrokes) of the greatest Latin lover of them all, Giacomo Casanova.