A vain attempt to subdue that unsubduable country.
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In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums, Alexandrian lighthouses, miniature Parthenons. These charming follies contained neither royal corpses nor effigies of gods and goddesses; rather they contained large wooden tanks filled with water.
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| Birth: | 4th October, 1914 |
| Death: | 27th December, 1997 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Critic, Journalist, Writer |
About
Brendan Gill was born in Hartford, Connecticut. He was an American journalist and writer. He wrote for The New Yorker for more than 60 years. He also contributed film criticism for Film Comment and wrote a popular book about his time at the New Yorker magazine. In 1936 The New Yorker editor St. Clair McKelway hired Gill as a writer. One of the publication's few writers to serve under its first four editors, he wrote more than 1,200 pieces for the magazine.
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