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Both projects, and other 'smart textiles' inventions at the uni, draw on the town's wealth of local textile and engineering knowledge; the big mills of Humphrey Spender's Mass Observation 'Worktown' study in 1937-8 may mostly be closed, but the skills which manned them are part of Bolton's DNA.
Fancy that - a computer bag which keeps the machine powered up 2011
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I knew of him through reading Isherwood, who shared Spender's high opinion of Upward.
Edward Upward 2009
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Both projects, and other 'smart textiles' inventions at the uni, draw on the town's wealth of local textile and engineering knowledge; the big mills of Humphrey Spender's Mass Observation 'Worktown' study in 1937-8 may mostly be closed, but the skills which manned them are part of Bolton's DNA.
Fancy that - a computer bag which keeps the machine powered up 2011
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My thoughts on Spender's tough comments: Say it ain't so, Lloyd.
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My thoughts on Spender's tough comments: Say it ain't so, Lloyd.
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And for all those who have suddenly become experts in plagiarism, it becomes a real issue not in speeches, but in printed material where copyrights are involved, as when David Leavitt was successfully sued by Stephen Spender for plagiarizing from Spender's memoir, and the book was pulped.
Hillary Camp Only Recently Learned About Texas Delegate Rules 2009
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Many of Spender's best-known poems were written in Germany; it could be argued that his poetry generally declined after 1933, when it was no longer safe for him to live there, and he turned increasingly to prose.
Archive 2009-03-01 Rus Bowden 2009
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Before he stopped talking to the press, Leavitt readily admitted Spender's book was "a springboard" for his own.
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Reviewers have noted that Leavitt's plot -- a writer following his lower-class lover to the Spanish Civil War -- corresponds in detail to an episode in Spender's life.
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The novel does tip its hat to Spender: the phrase "even Stephen" gets a conspicuous "ph," and the "Berlin stories" passage breaches the subject of appropriation while appropriating Spender's contrite version of his break with Christopher Isherwood.
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