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  • Almost immediately upon listening to the first group of speakers at the 2003 convention, Lewis-Kraus is struck by the degree to which these people are asking, implicitly and explicitly, what it is that an English professor is supposed to be doing: "what is an English professor for?"

    Literary Study 2009

  • My interest here is not in Kraus's novel per se, but in the way in which Gail Caldwell's response to it exemplifies certain assumptions about what novels are supposed to do.

    Narrative Strategies 2009

  • Johann Kraus is a protoplasmic mystic and psychic that was unable to return to this body following a seance, so the B.P.R.D. built him a containment suit.

    Seth MacFarlane Voicing Hellboy II's Johann Kraus! « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • Johann Kraus is a protoplasmic mystic and psychic that was unable to return to this body following a seance, so the B.P.R.D. built him a containment suit.

    Must Watch: Awesome Clip of Johann Kraus in Hellboy II « FirstShowing.net 2008

  • Although, from an ecclesiastical standpoint, much of his literary work is greatly to be deplored and rejected and though his political activity — to which we shall refer later — did not always influence favourably his intellectual labours, his achievements of positive and permanent value form a sufficiently imposing array to entitle Kraus to a place among the ablest scholars of the nineteenth century.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • Another vulnerability for the challenger, says Mr. Kraus, is "to have a multimillionaire [support] free trade" when so many are out of work.

    Wisconsin Sours On Its Self-Styled Maverick Matthew Kaminski 2010

  • Though this evening was in honor of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Mimi Haas, Jill Kraus and Sharon Percy Rockefeller, was teeming with board members from MoMA and everyone was dressed a little more casually, naturally, conversation was heavy on recollections from the night before.

    At Cartier, Met Ball Still Has Shine Marshall Heyman 2011

  • The Nanny Diaries centers on a group of nannies who work for upper class Manhattan parents; Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus wrote the book, which was published in 2002.

    Exclusive: Gilmore Girls Creator Adapts The Nanny Diaries for ABC 2011

  • And of all those writers—Zweig, Musil, Schnitzler, Kafka, Hofmannsthal, Kraus, Canetti, the list goes on—the supreme elegist of the Dual Monarchy was Joseph Roth.

    Dispatches From a Lost Empire Tess Lewis 2012

  • Guitarist Christine Bougie suggested the Robert Plant/Alison Kraus record Raising Sand and I thought, wow how long has it been since I listened to that one?

    Wednesday Wonderment « Looking for Roots 2009

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