Quotes by Amanda Foreman - Page 2

It might sound strange to describe New Yorkers as insecure when they delight so much in the cult of success. The display of wealth here, especially new wealth, is indeed wonderfully frank, from the super-long limousines which clog up the roads to the voluptuous fur coats that adorn both men and women.
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Coats
Cult
Delight
Display
Frank
Fur
Insecure
Men And Women
Voluptuous
Success Men Women
Adorn
Both Men And Women
Clog
Describe
Success Women Men
Indeed
Roads
Wonderfully
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The narrative of 'man the hunter' presupposes that men provided the nutrition, invented the tools, and established social organization and communication through the hunt, and that women were just sitting by the fire waiting for evolution to drag them out by the hair in the 1960s in order to participate.
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Communication
Drag
Evolution
Narrative
Nutrition
Social Organization
Tools
Men Women Waiting
Established
Hunt
Invented
Participate
Provided
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I'd gone to Oxford to do graduate studies in the history of the slave trade, but I came across Georgiana's letters, gave up that thesis, and wrote one on her instead. When I learned that Georgiana's great-nephews supported opposite sides in the American Civil War, I knew this would be the perfect sequel.
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Civil War
Letters
Oxford
Sides
Slave
Thesis
Graduate
Sequel
Studies
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Almost the first thing Obama did in the White House was to return the bust of Winston Churchill to the British embassy. That suggests a major re-ordering of things. It'll be fascinating to see what happens from now on. It was a genuine break with the recent past - perhaps to re-connect with the past past.
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Embassy
Fascinating
Genuine
Recent Past
White House
Bust
Churchill
First Thing
Recent
The First Thing
Winston
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Over the years, the writers at DC Comics softened Wonder Woman's powers in ways that would have infuriated Marston. During the 1960s, she was hardly wondrous at all, less a heroic warrior than the tomboyish girl next door. It was no longer clear whether she was meant to empower the girls or captivate the boys.
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Heroic
Warrior
Wondrous
Dc
Empower
Girl Next Door
Hardly
Next Door
Powers
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The photograph of the Queen sitting stiffly across the table from Glasgow resident Susan McCarron is so natural and expressive that it looks utterly fake. It looks like an artist's portrait, complete with symbolism, humour and poignancy. No wonder the palace and the press have interpreted it in such different ways.
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Different Ways
Expressive
Fake
Glasgow
Humour
Photograph
Poignancy
Symbolism
Queen
Interpreted
No Wonder
Palace
Portrait
Resident
Susan
Utterly
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One of the reasons it is considered such a privilege to sit on a Man Booker jury is because it is famously rigorous. The judging is not a gig for lightweights. Not only are all five judges expected to have read all 155 books from beginning to end, but they have to be able to talk fluently about every book at length.
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Expected
Length
Privilege
Fluently
Gig
Judges
Rigorous
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What makes 'The Marriage of Souls' such a wonderful book is Collins's intricate reconstruction of the late eighteenth-century world. Simplicity and philosophy are the hallmarks of eighteenth-century art and architecture. The classically pure lines look deceptively simple and unburdened by heavy symbolism or imagery.
Amanda Foreman /
Marriage
Architecture
Book
Heavy
Imagery
Intricate
Late
Lines
Pure
Reconstruction
Simple
Symbolism
Wonderful
Collins
Souls
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Marie-Antoinette was born in 1755, the youngest daughter of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and Emperor Francis I. She was intelligent and artistic but devoid of the ambition or calculation required to survive in the fetid atmosphere of the French court. In many ways, her character was not unlike that of Mary, Queen of Scots.
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Atmosphere
Austria
Emperor
Intelligent
Mary
Theresa
Calculation
Devoid
Francis
Unlike
Maria
Required
To Survive
Youngest
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For women, Neo-Confucianism placed extra emphasis on chastity, obedience, and diligence. A good wife should have no desire other than to serve her husband, no ambition other than to produce a son, and no interest beyond subjugating herself to her husband's family - meaning, among other things, she must never remarry if widowed.
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Ambition
Chastity
Desire
Diligence
Emphasis
Good Wife
Husband
Obedience
Produce
Son
Widowed
Among
Beyond
Extra
Herself
No Desire
Placed
Serve
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A small foot in China, no different from a tiny waist in Victorian England, represented the height of female refinement. For families with marriageable daughters, foot size translated into its own form of currency and a means of achieving upward mobility. The most desirable bride possessed a three-inch foot, known as a 'golden lotus.'
Amanda Foreman /
Currency
Desirable
Golden
Height
Mobility
Possessed
Refinement
Tiny
Upward Mobility
Victorian
Achieving
Foot
Lotus
Translated
Upward
Waist
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Southern politicians who have tried to rise above the passionate rhetoric surrounding the Civil War have frequently found themselves dragged back into the mire. Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell, a Republican, was forced to apologise when his proclamation declaring April Confederate History Month failed to make any reference to slavery.
Amanda Foreman /
April
Civil War
Confederate
Declaring
Proclamation
Rhetoric
Rise Above
Virginia
Apologise
Month
Dragged
Failed
Forced
Frequently
Governor
Reference
Surrounding
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The energy that New York exudes is as much the light of extinguished souls as it is the spark of individual enterprise. And while the full meaning of the city may prove elusive, all New Yorkers are painfully aware that it remains an intractable mass of contradictions. It is not just the extremes of wealth and poverty living side by side.
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Elusive
Enterprise
Mass
New Yorkers
Remains
Contradictions
Extinguished
Intractable
Meaning Of
Painfully
Souls
Spark
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'The Marriage of Souls', like 'The Rationalist', is an exploration of humanist philosophy wrapped between the delicate leaves of an eighteenth-century tale. The story of the two novels - and they should be read as a two-volume work - centres around the old war-horse of boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy finds girl. But what a boy and what a girl.
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Delicate
Exploration
Humanist
Loses
Finds
Leaves
Meets
Souls
Tale
Wrapped
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