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Schlesinger

[ shles-in-jer, shley-zing-er ]

noun

  1. Arthur Mei·er [mahy, -er], 1888–1965, U.S. historian.
  2. his son Arthur Meier, Jr., 1917–2007, U.S. historian and writer.
  3. John Richard, 1926–2003, English film director.


Schlesinger

/ ˈʃlɛzɪŋə /

noun

  1. SchlesingerJohn (Richard)19262003MBritishFILMS AND TV: directorTHEATRE: theatre director John ( Richard ). 1926–2003, British film and theatre director. Films include Billy Liar (1963), Midnight Cowboy (1969), Sunday Bloody Sunday (1971), and Eye for an Eye (1995)


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In the 1950s, you had people like Richard Hofstadter and Arthur Schlesinger moving back and forth between the two worlds.

Schlesinger said he was not familiar with studies showing health spending growing at historically low rates.

It was part of a series that Arthur Schlesinger did on the then 42 former presidents.

The third writer-mythmaker was Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., the historian and Kennedy administration White House aide.

Former aides Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and Ted Sorensen rewrote history to make him more liberal than he really was.

Gutmann says that Chopin on his return from Majorca asked Schlesinger for better terms.

Schlesinger had been successful with several dramas, and agreed with Clemens to do some plays dealing with American themes.

Schlesinger spoke very little English, and Clemens always had difficulty in comprehending rapid-fire German.

So we agreed to give Dr. Schlesinger an opportunity to convince us that he was a man of rare endowments, as he pretended to be.

I will add, that, so far as I know, Dr. Schlesinger had no possible means of knowing the name or anything about either person.

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