E. P. Thompson
E. P. Thompson
Edward Palmer Thompson, usually cited as E. P. Thompson, was a British historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner. He is probably best known today for his historical work on the British radical movements in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in particular The Making of the English Working Class. He also published influential biographies of William MorrisandWilliam Blakeand was a prolific journalist and essayist. He also published the novel The Sykaos Papers and a collection of poetry. His work...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth3 February 1924
It makes me wonder at what point in time will these students open their eyes.
It's going to go on at least another three years, maybe another five, before it levels off. It's not like the hula hoop craze. You put poker tables in, then you take them out and put slot machines in if the fad disappears.
It's going to cripple us. We have no money to do what the law says we need to.
I want the consultant to look specifically at MCH. We don't want a cookie-cutter program. We want one that works for us.
I wanted to make a good impression and come out here and be successful.
It used to be that you could actually stay in an Olympic news-free zone through the entire day.
The kids knew--the three oldest didn't really say anything the whole ride home, and the two youngest didn't really understand.
They're big, they're strong and they shoot well. They're a load.
They're drilling down to the level of the individual store. They can pinpoint if customers are gay, Latino, 30-year-old, college-educated conservatives.
The world is a beautiful place. It's just the people in it that make it ugly.
You could've done a killer 20-minute anthology of Motown that would've been educational to kids who didn't know what Motown was. And the people who lived through Motown would've loved its nostalgic value. ... But music is the hardest way to appeal to a mass audience because it's highly fragmented and you never get anything that everyone likes.
You could have men landing on Mars and Idol would beat it.
You can't expect too much from the players, really. We started well and we had a good first quarter, but the little bits in between, we looked like we were a side that was playing their first game.
The future of elementary consolidation is not decided,