Sentences with phrase «former classics professor»
They include Jim Barksdale, the former chief operating officer of Netscape, who gave $ 100 million to establish an institute to improve reading instruction in Mississippi; Eli Broad, the home builder and retirement investment titan, whose foundation works on a range of management, governance, and leadership issues; Michael Dell, the founder of Dell Computers, whose family foundation is valued at $ 1.2 billion and is a major supporter of a program that boosts college going among students of potential but middling accomplishment; financier and buyout specialist Theodore J. Forstmann, who gave $ 50 million of his own money to help poor kids attend private schools; David Packard, a former classics professor who also is a scion of one of the founders of Hewlett - Packard and has given $ 75 million to help California school districts improve reading instruction; and the Walton Family Foundation, which benefits from the fortune of the founder of Wal - Mart, and which is the nation's largest supporter of charter schools and private school scholarships (see «A Tribute to John Walton,»).
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Hall appeared on the big screen as David Kammerer, the former professor obsessed with and later murdered by Lucien Carr (Dane DeHaan) in John Krokidas» KILL YOUR DARLINGS (Sony Pictures Classics) the Beat Generation drama that also stars Daniel Radcliffe as Alan Ginsberg.
Actor James McAvoy, who will reprise his role as professor Charles Xavier in «X-Men: Apocalypse,» will be among the stars on hand at Fox's panel Saturday, sharing the stage with former «Harry Potter» star Daniel Radcliffe to tout another of the studio's upcoming releases, «Victor Frankenstein,» which offers a fresh take on Mary Shelley's classic novel.
The former French professor's Gothic tale, with echoes of classics like Rebecca and Wuthering Heights, struck a chord with book lovers in particular, who sent it straight to the top of the bestseller lists: 70,000 copies were sold in the U.S. in the first two weeks of its release.
During the winter of 1953/54, former Bauhaus professor Josef Albers (1888 - 1976) taught a three - part introductory course on drawing, material studies and color studies at the newly founded Hochschule für Gestaltung (HfG) in Ulm — courses which anticipated his now classic text Interaction of Color (1963).