His other possessions include three of the most distinguished vineyards in Bordeaux.
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John was the stein of one of America's most distinguished military families.
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She is one of the country's most distinguished and widely respected diplomats.
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John was the son of one of America's most distinguished military families.
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And then Brett Kavanaugh is one of the most distinguished jurists in America.
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Helen Grenier is one of the most distinguished serial entrepreneurs in the robotics field.
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Pérez has sacked some of the most distinguished managers of the last 20 years.
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Republicans have called Gorsuch superbly qualified and one of the nation's most distinguished appellate judges.
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" This, according to one of Trump's most distinguished fabulists, is "just a fact of modern life.
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But what most distinguished the debate was the way in which gender came to the fore.
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Lieber is one of Harvard's most distinguished professors and a leader in nanoscience and nanotechnology research.
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But in a new ad, the crew has brought aboard the most distinguished Olympian of all-time.
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Check out who made the list of our most distinguished and accomplished professionals from the influence world.
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He was one of the most distinguished-looking men that appeared on the thoroughfares of the capital.
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Colin Powell, who is one of the most distinguished generals in modern time, said there were weapons there.
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We are thirty-eight pages into " Shyness and Dignity " (218), by Norway's most distinguished contemporary novelist, Dag Solstad.
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"You are the most distinguished frozen group of people I have ever spoken before," Mr. de Blasio began.
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Together, they constitute the Abbott World Marathon Majors, a collection of the most distinguished marathons in the world.
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But such works are generally made by specialists, and not by the most distinguished artists of the day.
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As I imagine it, the most distinguished astronomer at the meeting is Professor Szczepański, of the University of Lodz.
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Another passionate enemy of the Islamist trend is France's most distinguished Islamic intellectual, the Moroccan-born thinker Tareq Oubrou.
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From historically significant Royal Wedding decor to sweet gifts of love, these might be the most distinguished flowers in history.
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The harsh reality, though, is that the candidate for the Great American Novelist had dwindled into America's most distinguished hack.
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For me, his most distinguished work has been an insightful performance of Verdi's "Don Carlo" in the spring of 2015.
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Say what you will about Hillary Clinton, but Mr. Trump's track record is not among the most distinguished in business history.
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For A.V. Dicey, the most distinguished constitutionalist of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the referendum offered a partial solution.
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In 1998, Chemistry and Engineering News announced he was one of the world's 250 most distinguished chemists of the 29th century.
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As a former model, she has always been a patron of the world's most distinguished designers both here and abroad. Mrs.
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Two of the most distinguished and successful EPA Administrators — William Ruckelshaus and William Riley — were appointed by, and served under, Republican presidents.
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The London-born Ruskin (1819-1900) was the most distinguished art critic of his day, barely known as an artist at all.
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And, conversely, when even the most distinguished philosophers write about art, almost always their concerns are distant from those of practicing artists.
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However, in 1990 the society, which by then had more female members, posthumously honored her with one of its most distinguished awards.
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" It was a surprising look for the Breaking Bad alum, whom Colbert called "one of the finest, most distinguished actors of our generation.
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Every year, food industry heavyweights gather at Tokyo's legendary Tsukiji fish market to participate in one of the country's most distinguished holiday traditions.
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Where the Korean company has most distinguished itself is in learning from its mistakes, correcting them, and delivering better products as a result.
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I came from a broken home and never knew my father; John was the scion of one of America's most distinguished military families.
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Prolific singer-songwriter, and one of Australia's most distinguished musicians, Archie Roach's twelfth studio album Let Love Rule was released earlier this month.
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Because even a poor man could accede to the most distinguished offices, his reputation was far more important to Fabricius than Pyrrhus' money.
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The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for the most distinguished beginning reader book went to "We Are Growing," written and illustrated by Laurie Keller.
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Curiously, Trieste's most distinguished restaurants tend not to take advantage of the city's window onto the sea that offers their most crucial ingredients.
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China's economy is a lot more resilient than the West thinks, according to one of Wall Street's most distinguished voices on the region.
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The contrast between Rai University's main campus in Delhi and that of Jawaharlal Nehru University, one of India's most distinguished public universities, is striking.
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But perhaps what most distinguished the album from its hardcore contemporaries was that underneath its sonic brutality was a guide to positive personal growth.
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"You are the most distinguished frozen group of people I have ever spoken before," said Mr. de Blasio, whose speech lasted about 13 minutes.
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Lieber, 60, is one of the most distinguished scientists to become part of the FBI&aposs investigation into scientists stealing research for other countries.
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The Theodor Seuss Geisel Award for the most distinguished beginning reader book went to "Fox the Tiger," written and illustrated by Corey R. Tabor.
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The National Commission on Farmers, headed by M. S. Swaminathan, India's most distinguished agricultural scientist, submitted detailed reports to the Parliament over a decade ago.
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The Chrysler Museum of Art is one of America's most distinguished mid-sized art museums, with a nationally recognized collection of more than 30,000 objects.
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Oxford students have demanded that John Finnis, one of the world's most distinguished legal scholars, should be silenced for the sin of opposing gay marriage.
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As China's wealth has grown, so has its desire to own the most distinguished technology companies in the world, and that's where CFIUS comes in.
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"Jim Clapper is one of the most distinguished intelligence officers in American history," said Belfer Center Director Graham Allison in a written statement on Wednesday.
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Last month, he became the first Chinese author to receive the Hans Christian Andersen Award, regarded as the most distinguished international honor for children's literature.
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I still remember a talk I heard at Bowling Green State University by Philip Glass, one of the most distinguished music composers of our time.
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The detained suspect is Carlos Ghosn, one of the most distinguished business executives in the world, who served as chairman of Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi.
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Named after an 18th-century British publisher and "father of children's literature," the award recognizes the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year.
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Named after the 18th-century British publisher and "father of children's literature," the award recognizes the most distinguished American children's book published the previous year.
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"The Undefeated," illustrated by Kadir Nelson and written by Kwame Alexander, won the Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children.
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His piano can be heard from the hallway, though most of his neighbors don't know they're listening to one of the world's most distinguished pianists.
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Puerto Rican astronaut Joseph Michael Acaba is one of the most distinguished members of the American space crew and is now on his third mission.
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In the same room, Cronin's many watercolors depicting the works of Harriet Hosmer, the most distinguished female sculptor in the United States in the 19th century.
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A coterie of New York's most distinguished athletes, musicians, and media personalities congregated Thursday night at Yankee Stadium for CC and Amber Sabathia's celebrity softball game.
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I encourage my fellow Republicans, and certainly the members of the Freedom Caucus, to follow the example of our founders and our most distinguished conservative leaders.
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" Near the Penone piece on the Main Green is one of Brown's oldest and most distinguished public sculptures: Henry Moore's "Reclining Figure No. 2121 — Bridge Prop.
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He was not only one of the most distinguished lawyers of the Founding generation but was one of the most experienced diplomats in the new nation.
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It is astonishing to me that one of them is a former boss who also happens to be one of the most distinguished judges in the country.
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Anthony Sampson, one of his most distinguished editorial acquisitions, thought that the paper was more like a family charity, or an eccentric college, than a commercial newspaper.
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"We're proud to have the endorsement of some of South Carolina's most distinguished elected officials, labor, and faith leaders," said Sanders's South Carolina state director Kwadjo Campbell.
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"Kevin Young is one of the country's most distinguished curators and writers," William Kelly, the New York Public Library's director of research libraries, said in a statement.
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" There were pickles and preserves and bread and butter and an assortment of cakes and puddings and pies, "yet the pumpkin pie occupied the most distinguished niche.
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Today, nearly five years after his death at age 95, his legacy as one of the 20th century's most distinguished and influential freedom fighters is well enshrined.
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Nativist leaders were among the most distinguished men of the country: upper-class, highly educated and Protestant, men who personally had nothing to fear from new immigrants.
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In the midst of his health struggles, Mr. Domingo, one of the 20th century's most distinguished tenors, reinvented himself as a Verdi baritone, a very different beast.
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The EGS explores art practice and critical thinking throughout innovative, cross-disciplinary programs that assemble some of the most distinguished thinkers, critical theorists and artists in the world.
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These are American citizens elected by voters in the United States of America to serve in one of the most distinguished bodies in the US House of Representatives.
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Here you'll find the most distinguished and accomplished professionals from the influence world who are on the front lines of the nation's most consequential political and policy battles.
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Carroll L. Wainwright Jr. — seasoned world traveler and scion of one of wealthiest and most distinguished families in the United States — was, quite simply, hungry for his supper.
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Study after study after study came to the same conclusion: What most distinguished Trump voters was not their economic status but their attitudes on race, gender, and immigration.
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SOMETIME IN THE 1990s Jagdish Bhagwati, one of India's most distinguished economists, encountered Swaminathan Gurumurthy, a financial commentator associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu-nationalist organisation.
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Her ability to win in November may very well hinge on conveying the strength to stand alone, as so many presidents have done, often in their most distinguished moments.
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He sent to him one of his most distinguished ambassadors and ordered that a sumptuous bath be provided to allow his guest to cleanse himself after his dusty voyage.
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Consider the twin stories of Lawrence Summers, one of the world's most distinguished economists, and Ward Churchill, an obscure professor of ethnic studies, which unfolded in parallel earlier this year.
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His dignified slave, called possibly the most distinguished looking man in the room, attended him during the convention—the only black man whose presence is recorded at the closed event.
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Practically the most distinguished guest Mr. DeMeyer poured drinks for was Amanda Lepore, the transgender night life diva — and she arrived with Mr. Windsor, who was then a party promoter.
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It's surely not a good thing that Trump got rid of one of the most distinguished Federal Reserve chairs in history just before markets started to flash some warning signs.
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With all the complaints and public criticism of Kavanaugh's fitness to serve on the Supreme Court, including from many of the nation's most distinguished law professors and the ABA, Sen.
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After 20041 seasons as one of the most distinguished and respected players in baseball, and six previous trips to the playoffs, the 40-year-old Beltran was — finally — a champion.
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She became a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master last year, adding a punctuation mark to a career already known to be one of the most distinguished in jazz.
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Elizabeth Warren founded the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an entire agency of the U.S. government, and has a reputation as one of the most distinguished law professors in the country. Sen.
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Sean Wilentz, among the most distinguished of American historians, and the one who comes closest to helping Americans understand themselves in the spirit of Richard Hofstadter, will have none of it.
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Mr. Bax is a strong pianist in his own right, but Mr. Pahud is the real attraction here, perhaps the world's most distinguished flutist, and the principal of the Berlin Philharmonic.
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Madison Square Park Conservancy's art program and many of our colleagues in the public art field work with the most distinguished contemporary artists who want to realize work in the public realm.
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Rodriguez's most distinguished work, thus far, is his "Subway Series," somber photo-realist paintings of New York's subway passengers, which have been featured in The New York Times and The New Yorker.
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That's more than in any cycle since 1976, when five of the most distinguished and mostly admirable senators of the 20th century received just 15 percent of the Democratic primary vote, combined.
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In showing his mother and father to us, Ford — an ordinary child, who grew up to become one of our most distinguished fiction writers — has, inevitably, shown a fair portion of himself.
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And "The Undefeated," an ode to African-American accomplishments written by Kwame Alexander and illustrated by Kadir Nelson, won the Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children. 9.
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News that Ideo, one of the world's largest and most distinguished design firms, had sold a chunk of its business and joined a creative collective caught many in the design world by surprise.
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But while the economy collapses, there is still some hope in the volatile art market: Galeria Nara Roesler, one of the most distinguished galleries in Brazil, just launched a space in New York.
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They are among the most distinguished schools in the city, some on par with elite and expensive private schools, and they offer a real pathway out of the working class for many families.
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The afternoon paper would be written with the sophisticated poise of The Herald Tribune (the most distinguished predecessor of the short-lived World Journal Tribune) and not in The Times's dutiful, plodding style.
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His most recent book, "L'Amante de l'Arsenal" ("The Mistress of the Arsenal"), came out three months ago in the prestigious "Collection Blanche" of Gallimard, regarded by many as France's most distinguished publishing house.
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A thought-provoking recital from one of our most distinguished pianists pairs Bach and Chopin, two composers who don't instantly spring to mind as natural partners but might well turn out to be.
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The actress and director was appointed an Honorary Dame Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George (DCMG) for her work campaigning to end war zone sexual violence.
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He had been carried into the ring in a palanquin, flown in on a mechanical flying carpet, and accompanied by British and Yemeni flags as if he was royalty of the most distinguished sort.
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AVIGNON, FRANCE Festival d'Avignon, July 6-24 This annual festival includes an official lineup of some of the most distinguished theater in Europe, along with a rambling independent festival (the "OFF," July 7-30).
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For example, many of golf's most distinguished courses are understated and highlight natural elements of topography, but the Trump golf properties often showcase grandiose artificial features like waterfalls, soaring fountains and sculpted rock formations.
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We've seen him inhale through many vessels, so the choice of bong is significant: This is Erlich at his most distinguished and professorial, looking one tweed jacket away from a tenured position at Sarah Lawrence.
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The shareholders who demanded he resign hailed from some of the most distinguished venture capital firms in tech, including Benchmark, First Round Capital, Lowercase Capital, Menlo Ventures, and Fidelity Investments, the New York Times reported.
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VENICE — The Venice Biennale, still the world's most distinguished exhibition of international contemporary art, opened to the public on Saturday, after a prosecco-drenched professional preview that has grown larger and less professional than ever.
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Eliot Cohen — one of the nation's most distinguished scholars of civil-military relations and, as a former George W. Bush administration official, no lefty — has made the case for civilian control even at the tactical level.
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His family, the Youngs, are the biggest developers in Singapore, not to mention key players in the Hong Kong finance world, personal friends with some of England's most distinguished aristocrats, and members of several royal families.
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Despite being invited to perform at Queen Elizabeth's 92nd birthday concert in April, the 19-year-old didn't have the best of luck when it came to actually meeting some of the evening's most distinguished guests.
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While Glowatski had been represented by a public defender who specialized in DUIs, Ellard's family obtained the counsel of one of Canada's most distinguished lawyers, Adrian Brooks, to represent the daughter they believed was unfairly accused.
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The Randolph Caldecott Medal, awarded to an illustrator for the year's most distinguished American picture book, went to Javaka Steptoe for "Radiant Child: The Story of Young Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat," published by Little, Brown & Company.
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A graduate of Harvard, Mr. Wilson is the son of two former Harvard professors; one of them, E. Bright Wilson, was described in obituaries as one of the most distinguished physical scientists of the 20th century.
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However, during the summer season, this strange place was frequented by the most distinguished foreigners, including William I, Prince of Prussia; Leopold I, King of the Belgians; the Duke of Brabant, the Duke of Flanders, etc.
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Included in the batch of 90 nominees are some of the most distinguished writers in history: W.H. Auden, Samuel Beckett, Jorge Luis Borges, E.M. Forster, Pablo Neruda, Vladimir Nabokov and Ezra Pound, just to name a few.
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What she didn't mention was the fact that the Art Gallery of Ontario — one of Canada's most distinguished art museums — had recently renamed Carr's painting, originally titled "Indian Church," saying that the old terminology ''denigrates and discriminates.
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The third wine comes from Domaine de Villaine, the family enterprise of one of Burgundy's most distinguished vignerons, Aubert de Villaine, who is co-director of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti, one of the top Burgundy producers.
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Embarrassingly, their tactics were obvious from the start, with press releases generated with "fill in the blank" opposition, persistent delay tactics, and increasingly bizarre allegations against one of the most distinguished judges on record in modern American history.
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The Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book went to "Wolf in the Snow" by Matthew Cordell, a wordless picture book about a girl and a wolf cub who both become lost in a snowstorm.
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He pointed out that the Treaty of 1880 was agreed to by China at the express request of the Government of the United States, which sent three of its most distinguished representatives to Pekin to ask for it.
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Imagine the elderly veteran of war and government, whose wisdom and courage were sought by the most distinguished men of our time, with his eyes shining with happiness as he gave his blessing for his grown daughter's marriage.
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Essay In 1974, Juan Carlos Onetti (1909-94), Uruguay's most distinguished modern writer, and his colleagues at Marcha, a prominent weekly in Montevideo, had a run-in with the dictatorship of Juan María Bordaberry, then in its second year.
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If the case being offered is that the current Republican president is unfit for the office he holds, the witnesses for this case, presented here, are some of the most distinguished and respected Republicans and conservatives in the land.
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In Italy, although soccer is still known as calcio —after a Florentine game that originated in the sixteenth century—the British influence is enshrined in such Anglicized names as A.C. Milan, one of the country's most distinguished club sides.
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"It's hard for us to look in from the outside and see exactly how much there is and exactly how much influence it's having," said Mr. Batto, an assistant research fellow at Academia Sinica, Taiwan's most distinguished scholarly society.
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Mr. Carden lives at number 409, one of the most distinguished buildings in a community filled with beautiful, old structures, most of them individual landmarks or part of historic districts or both (as is the case with his building).
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So that the president of the United States would tell a 16-year-old with Asperger's -- a condition most distinguished by difficulty with social interactions -- to make some friends and, basically, relax, fits nicely into that pattern of behavior.
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In her early 20s, the Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker created two dances that remain among her most distinguished: "Fase, Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich" (1981), for two women; and "Rosas Danst Rosas" (1983), for four.
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Myron Bloom, one of the most distinguished French horn players of his generation and a force in molding the sound of the Cleveland Orchestra during its golden age under the demanding conductor George Szell, died on Thursday in Bloomington, Ind.
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In a letter to Mr. Trump on Wednesday, some of the nation's most distinguished retired military officers implored the president to reconsider the cuts, taking up the national security argument that Mr. Mattis made when he was at the Pentagon.
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Something is clearly out of kilter, an impression confirmed by the trouble he finds himself in when he's commissioned by Le Monde, France's most distinguished newspaper, to write an extended piece for a summer weekend issue, the subject up to him.
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The Class of 2019 at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University received a surprise gift when they graduated on May 10: a limited-edition print by Edgar Heap of Birds, MFA '79, one of Tyler's most distinguished alumni.
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McKay has long been celebrated as one of the most distinguished voices of the Harlem Renaissance — his 1922 poetry collection "Harlem Shadows" is often cited as one of the books that inaugurated the movement — but much of his legacy is still underappreciated.
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The mother of six — who are staying with her in London as she shoots Maleficent 2 — was made an honorary Dame Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George for extraordinary service to U.K. foreign policy in 2014.
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" Russian diplomats claim three 19th-century poets as their most distinguished forebears: "Eugene Onegin" author Alexander Pushkin, "Woe from Wit" playwright Alexander Griboyedov and the romantic poet Fyodor Tyutchev, who wrote the now-famous maxim: "Russia cannot be understood with the mind alone.
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The most distinguished of them is a nearly six-foot-tall painting from 2004 by Park Dae-sung, who portrays Nine-Dragon Falls as a blackout of thick ink, interrupted by a slash of white with the force of a Barnett Newman zip.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Jamsheed Marker, one of Pakistan's most distinguished diplomats and a figure in the negotiations that led to the Soviet military withdrawal from Afghanistan and the resolution of the conflict in East Timor, died on June 21965 at his home in Karachi.
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Erected between 1830 and 1930 by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Friedrich August Stüler, Ernst Eberhard von Ihne and Alfred Messel, the most distinguished architects of their time, they are great, towering edifices which both evoke the Acropolis of Athens and maintain an identity of their own.
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Though she wasn't among the celebrities at the royal wedding last month, Angelina Jolie was the definition of elegant chic as she attended the Service of Commemoration and Dedication of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George in London on Thursday.
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But, while the central role has lured performers of the highest rank, no director of equal stature has tackled so redoubtable a theme, and the strange fact remains that the most distinguished film, by far, with which Churchill was involved was one that he despised.
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His behavior following the diagnosis showed the same courage that graced his life: He sought medical help, ignored advice about travel, returned from Arizona to the Senate and continued, so long as he was able, to act and speak as the Senate's most distinguished member.
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A pathbreaking composer and saxophonist, a radio host and organizer, a storied bassist, and arguably the most distinguished vocal talent of his generation: These four figures will make up the 2020 class of National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters, the agency announced on Tuesday.
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"His ideas captured the imagination of audiences, intellectuals and activists across the globe, making him one of the most distinguished critical social scientists of our era," Michael Burawoy, a friend and a leading Marxist sociologist at the University of California, Berkeley, said in an email.
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Two high-profile companies — a giant government-run trading firm and a conglomerate backed by China's most distinguished university — are the latest to join a long list of Chinese businesses that have run short of cash when it was time to pay back their debts.
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"Done in the neo-Classical style, with marble columns, pilasters and cornice in a range of hues, this double-height octagonal space was the work of Walter L. Hopkins, who did some of Warren & Wetmore's most distinguished work," Ms. Clark explained, referring to the building's architects.
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Many paintings, however, left Poland and found their way into the world's most distinguished museums, namely The State Hermitage in St Petersburg, The Wallace Collection in London, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, and the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen in Rotterdam, as well as into lesser-known ones.
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Sophie Blackall won the Randolph Caldecott Medal, which is awarded to an illustrator for the year's most distinguished American picture book, for "Hello, Lighthouse," a chronicle of working and living in a remote lighthouse that pays tribute to the difficult job lighthouse keepers performed for centuries.
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He died young, at the height of his powers, so the exhibition is manageable in size, yet with sufficient paintings to flesh out the highlights of the artist's development; it ends with a bang in several large works he executed for some of Rome's most distinguished patrons.
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John C. Calhoun, who was elected to serve as Jackson's vice president, was so concerned about the nullification fever overtaking his constituents (and convinced that he wasn't going to succeed Andrew Jackson as president) that he resigned and returned home to serve as the Palmetto State's most distinguished senator.
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Through his bodies of work in Pelican and RLYR, he's crafted a sonic identity that is, unmistakably, his own, and in doing so has become one of the most distinguished guitarists in heavy music today, easily on par with peers like Converge's Kurt Ballou and High on Fire's Matt Pike.
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Be assured, your money will be hanging out it with some of society's most distinguished semi-laundered funds in a massive cash mask ball to beat them all—a report by KPMG in 553 estimated that a full 45 percent of the world's offshore companies is in the British Virgin Islands.
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A handful of organizations have rolled out insignia to signal whether a product is vegan or cruelty-free, the most distinguished being the Leaping Bunny Program, which grants certification to personal care and household product companies that ensure that no animal testing is done at any phase of the production process.
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It's believed that many of the mercurial characters embellishing the Rider-Waite-Smith Deck were based on her social set; the most distinguished among them, perhaps, is Henry Irving, the celebrated Victorian-era actor-manager who was later knighted (purportedly Irving was also one of the inspirations for Stoker's Count Dracula).
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More than 50 years after that, Mr. Morris recounted the episode in "The Rape Case: A Young Lawyer's Struggle for Justice in the 1950s," a book that came to be reviewed by a most distinguished critic: John Paul Stevens, a retired United States Supreme Court justice, who found a lesson in it.
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Once one of the city's most distinguished addresses, the Watergate complex these days is regarded as something of a yawn by most Washingtonians — an island of office space and aging apartments unto itself, cut off from the rest of the city by the Potomac River and highways, and far from trendier neighborhoods.
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Espionage and private-eye novels, because some of the most distinguished authors in the genre have worked in those areas: John le Carré, Charles McCarry, Eric Ambler, Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, Ross Macdonald, all of whom have the inventiveness, voice and depth to rank with the best authors of the 20th century.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads MEXICO CITY — Two artists who couldn't be more opposite — blue-chip celebrity superstar Anish Kapoor and the Cuban magician of minimalism Wilfredo Prieto — have solo shows currently on view in two of Mexico's most distinguished contemporary art spaces, the Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC) and Kurimanzutto Gallery.
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Early in the afternoon a constant stream of handsome equipages poured up Eighth-avenue, laden with many of the best-known and most distinguished ladies and gentlemen of the City, and before the hour of the opening of the museum for inspection, much of the available ground in the neighborhood was filled with carriages.
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For almost a century, Mr. Newman called the fascinating old penny his first numismatic inspiration, a doorway to the past that took a boy from St. Louis into a life of curiosity, travel and adventure and made him one of America's most distinguished authorities on the art and history of coinage and paper money.
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Maurice Sendak thought James Marshall was a genius, and the true heir to the 19th-century English illustrator Randolph Caldecott (after whom the Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book is named), Jean de Brunhoff (creator of Babar, the winsome, regal Parisian elephants) and Tomie dePaola, who's won every children's book prize there is.
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Or "Siberia and the Exile System," an exacting, if less literary chronicle written at roughly the same time by the American travel writer George Kennan, whose distant cousin with the same name became one of the United States' most distinguished diplomats, best known for his policy of containment of the Soviet Union half a century later.
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Where: 800 Congress (March 93, 12AM-1AM), The Gatsby (March 16, 11-11:40PM) Hometown: London, UK Why: Just when you thought PC Music might be reaching their 15th minute of fame, the collective's most-distinguished associate Sophie teamed up with the British popstar for the infectious Pulp Fiction-sampling "Trophy," off the latter's recent EP of the same title.
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"This is a victory of values, the values of the Enlightenment, the values of France, the values on which America was founded, the values from which the US and the UK have gone significantly astray," said Nicholas Dungan, an Atlantic Council senior fellow, who teaches at Sciences Po, a top international research university in France that counts Macron as among its most distinguished alumni.
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Both Johnson and Dillashaw are renowned for their high-intensity fighting pace, footwork and vast arsenal of attacks, while the fight materialising could see Dillashaw become one of the few men to win two championships in different weightclasses or—alternatively—Johnson would cap off his startling run as flyweight king with a record-breaking 11 th title defence against his toughest and most distinguished test yet.
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Not so in the City of Light, where the Paris Opera, one of the world's oldest and most distinguished companies, is divided between two locations separated by two and a half miles, or a handful of Métro stops: the neo-Baroque Palais Garnier, inaugurated in 1875, and the jarringly modern Opéra Bastille, with its convex glass facade, which opened more than 100 years later.
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So to get a better sense of what music supervision entails, I spoke to many of the most distinguished names in the industry — including some of this year's inaugural Emmy nominees — about how their work has evolved, the ins and outs of what they do, and why they think their field is finally starting to be seen as the vital creative endeavor that it is.
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She observes cannily that "among the mother writers of today probably two of the most distinguished are Karl Ove Knausgaard and, in his way, Louis C.K." I have often thought (perhaps cynically) that male writers have more literary freedom to detail 21st-century parental domestic life, and only when a goodly number of men are stay-at-home parents will this country ever pass laws about universal pre-K.
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