That monument was a tribute to its most famous son, the 10th-century blind poet al-Ma'arri, an illustrious figure in the long Arab tradition of mordant sceptics to which Adunis belongs.Pessimism about where the Arab world is going is understandable, especially in view of what is happening in Syria.
He gained some momentum and became an illustrious figure among the neighborhood, until an inexplicable checklist of poor choices sent him reeling against the eclectic legacy he'd created for himself.
Among the illustrious figures sent out from Halle was Henry Melchior Mühlenberg, the organizer of colonial American Lutheranism.
Tragedy, it was considered, should deal with illustrious figures and significant events.
Isaac Bashevis Singer once lived there, among many other illustrious figures of the arts and letters.
There are Leibnizstrasse, Kantstrasse, Niebuhrstrasse, and Mommsenstrasse, all for illustrious figures in the great German tradition of moral inquiry.
As well as a choice selection from among the kitchen glitterati, the London-based company represents such illustrious figures as Neil Armstrong, Sir David Frost and Nick Leeson (who may be less useful in a recession).
Illustrious figures – T S Eliot, Cyril Connolly, A S Byatt – are discussed in detail but I enjoyed learning about Walter Allen, "one of the new breed of literary men thrown up by the 1930s".
The tavern, recommendedbynumerousreaders, is one of the oldest structures in Bardstown, an ancient stop on the western stagecoach route and, it is said, the occasional bunk of illustrious figures like Daniel Boone and the young Abraham Lincoln.
Illustrious figures are well represented, from the dearly departed founders and guiding eminences (Malcolm Bradbury, Angus Wilson, Angela Carter, Lorna Sage and WG Sebald) to the distinguished alumni (Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro, Rose Tremain and Anne Enright, to name just a few).
This unique institution of learning took him in against the advice of professional historians such as Gordon Craig and Joseph Strayer in 1956, but with enthusiastic support from Isaiah Berlin and Theodore Mommsen, and kept him on the payroll even after retirement as one of its most illustrious figures.
