He was a tremendously intellectual award-winning writer with a very fierce aspect and I was a very junior editor who had just bought the paperback versions of two of his hardback novels.
For the last 20 years of his life he was also one of Britain's most eminent public intellectuals, awarded the order of the companions of honour by Tony Blair.
The Illinois Library Association gave her its Intellectual Freedom Award for opposing Internet filters and state legislation that would have left obscenity standards to individual counties.
"Libraries," she said when she received her Intellectual Freedom Award, "play a very important role in safeguarding every citizen's right to read or hear diverse viewpoints and to make up his or her own mind about issues".
"He targeted Israeli intellectuals — the award judges and the award recipients — as a social group.
I'm Not Your Negro (***1/2) Just in case you need a reminder that racism is not dead, James Baldwin, the intellectual and award-winning author who died in 1997, has left behind some biting and enlightening words about the subject.
The dispute among writers and other intellectuals about the award for free speech which Pen America will on Tuesday give to Charlie Hebdo is an example of how muddled the debate has become.
Context: Right now, the patent system awards intellectual ownership in a "first to file" fashion, but great ideas are often discovered simultaneously by independent inventors.
He attended Dartmouth College where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and Magna Cum Laude, then went on to earn his MBA at Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School of Business, graduating with High Distinction and winning the Walter A. Jacobs Memorial Award for intellectual curiosity and sound judgment.
"I think it's important that one day every year the mass media celebrates someone who has been awarded a prize for intellectual achievement".
Furthermore, intellectual-property laws that award a kind of monopoly through patents are not easily reconciled with the whole notion of antitrust suits.The opponents of high-tech antitrust cases also assert that successful prosecution is nowadays harder than it was.
