Approaching the twentieth anniversary of the crackdown at Tiananmen Square, on June 4th, the fate of those one-time student leaders never ceases to amaze.
By Evan Osnos May 7, 2009 Approaching the twentieth anniversary of the crackdown at Tiananmen Square, on June 4th, the fate of those one-time student leaders never ceases to amaze.
One of the leading figures of the period was director Henryk Szaro, a one-time student of theatre innvovator Vsevolod Meyerhold, and who went on to direct significant films such as Mocny Człowiek (The Strong Man) (1929) – due to screen at the Polish film festival in London next week.
A 4ft-high slab of limestone erected in 1911, it depicts Cecil Rhodes, the arch imperialist, and one-time student of Oriel.
Chelsea Through Feb. 7 Pajaros (Spanish for birds) have captured the lens of the Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide, a one-time student of her compatriot the formidable Manuel Álvarez Bravo.
Mr Hayden is a thoroughbred ideologue: a one-time student radical who tried to change the world with his former wife, Jane Fonda, before settling down to change California as a state senator.
"If you would work in Europe like you do in America, with only two weeks of vacation, a lot of the tourism industry would collapse," said Daniel Cohn-Bendit, a one-time student radical who represents France in the European Parliament.
In a book review from 2005, Adam Kirsch described the similarities between Roethke and his one-time student James Wright: Each was the product of a decidedly unliterary Midwestern setting … and retained a lifelong suspicion of cleverness.
Capital FM Arena, Nottingham, Sat; Sheffield Arena, Sun; Genting Arena, Birmingham, Mon; 3Arena, Dublin, Wed & Thu; touring to 14 Dec JR A one-time student of composition, Christopher Duncan is accustomed to hearing his work performed by ensembles and choirs.
At the Gramophone awards, his one-time student and close friend, the concert pianist Imogen Cooper, described the experience of studying with Brendel: "We spent a full 20 minutes working on one single chord in a late Schubert sonata, he with demonic intensity, I with a kind of rigid terror, until I got it exactly right.
The Institute began as a Marxist study group started by Felix Weil, a one-time student of political science at Frankfurt who used his inheritance to fund an institution that would support his leftist academic aims.
