| 单词 | illiterate |
| 例句 | Some illiterates held writing in disdain; others seemed to have a superstitious reverence for the written word, as if it were some sort of magic. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He was a full-blooded Indian, untamed, illiterate, and endowed with quiet wiles and a messianic vocation that aroused a demented fanaticism in his men. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z Most of them were illiterate migrants from southern plantations and they had never been vitally interested in politics until they had entered the Communist party. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Lembede, whose father was an illiterate Zulu peasant from Natal, had trained as a teacher at Adam’s College, an American Board of Missions institution. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of them are illiterate farmers and peasants who supported the revolution. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I am dictating this letter to Doc Billings as I myself am illiterate, but I trust he will convey my words to you adequately. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z For an illiterate immigrant who came to New York years ago with nothing but $100 in his pocket and a willingness to work etched on his heart, could any words have been sweeter to say? Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z One group of illiterate migrant workers began asking me to read and write letters to and from the wives and children back in the tribal reserves. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z How he had copied the group of letters out on a piece of brown paper; copied, as illiterate people do, every curlicue, arch, and bend in the letters, and presented it to the midwife. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Hassan taught him to read and write—his son was not going to grow up illiterate like he had. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z A self- made man, the illiterate, illegitimate, neglected son of an army captain, he ached with dreams of wealth and chivalric glory despite the fortune he had already acquired in the Spanish colonies. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z About 70 percent of people with criminal records did not complete high school, and according to at least one study, about half are functionally illiterate. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I think today if we forbade our illiterate children to touch the wonderful things of our literature, perhaps they might steal them and find secret joy. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Many of our voters were illiterate, and were likely to be intimidated by the mere idea of voting. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z However, while Pizarro himself happened to be illiterate, he belonged to a literate tradition. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There are illiterate football players at all of the state schools. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Winston found and handed over two creased and filthy notes, which Parsons entered in a small notebook, in the neat handwriting of the illiterate. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Yet in a few years an illiterate runaway named Harriet Tubman would make nineteen trips into this country and lead three hundred fugitives to freedom. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Then, changing the subject to Alex Haley’s Roots: That book tells us more about his difference from his illiterate, tribal ancestors than it does about his link to them. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She was an illiterate black child with a baby whose father she did not know. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Would it not be better, finer, braver to leave the rubbish where it lies and walk out into the world a free untrammelled illiterate Superman? Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Unlearned.—What is the opposite of "illiterate"? Ans. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, well, tell your illiterate friends that if they’re going to call names, they should at least know how to spell them.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z “It’s trading with illiterate Nigerian women who have what we need.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I must have tinkered too much wondering how my invisible grandmother, illiterate and dependent on letter writers, could give us candy free. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On the other side, my father, he too illiterate, yet determined to have me drink from the well of ignorance. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s see...We got broke, illiterate, drug dealer, and now, girlfriend beater?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z When we point out illiterate mistakes we are often aggressively instructed to “get a life” by people who, interestingly, display no evidence of having lives themselves. Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z He was illiterate, and had a wife and six children back in a tribal reserve. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed it would have seemed more natural if he had been illiterate, like most of the others. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z A voice, cold and dark, suddenly whispered in my ear, What does he know, that illiterate Hazara? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Their leader was a mysterious, illiterate, one-eyed recluse named Mullah Omar, who, Rasheed said with some amusement, called himself Ameer-ul-Mumineen, Leader of the Faithful. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Its cultural unification accelerated during that same period, as literate “civilized” Chinese states absorbed, or were copied by, the illiterate “barbarians.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z NM: My Lord, what happens when illiterate whites vote . Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He remembered hearing his illiterate mother reciting poetry and speaking in a tongue that sounded like Latin when she was very ill with typhoid fever. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Although more and more people were learning how to read, the artisans still had signs above their shops, not wishing to lose a possible patron merely because he happened to be illiterate. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Who was Paul Ellis after all but a nearly illiterate linthead who barely provided for his own family and who drank himself to sleep nearly every weekend night. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Her true language kept twirling into her head unannounced, replete with an arrogant dazzling laughter, boisterous, obscene, illiterate, tickling her mind on twinkle- toes of murder. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Women such as Carrie Buck weren’t genetic imbeciles; they were poor, illiterate, unhealthy, and powerless—victims of their social lot, not of the genetic lottery. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z “Never heard of him? You poor, illiterate boy. Here, read this line.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Dazed, bloody, a shining bandage wrapping one hand, the man kept repeating, “They couldn’t read. They were illiterate!” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The policyholder, usually an illiterate black woman, would dig up her policy from the bottom of a trunk or a chest and hand it to the superintendent. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But no, he was ex officio an illiterate. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Southern white illiterates brought their biases intact to the West from the hills of Arkansas and the swamps of Georgia. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘You have all the skills the Commandant would expect from a house slave. She’ll assume you’re illiterate. And we have the means to get you in.” An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z From tutoring sessions, Luma knew the boy was almost completely illiterate. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Both Stanton and Anthony strongly objected to illiterate black men getting the vote before educated white women. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It’s down-to-earth, it’s simple, it’s untrue, and it’s familiar enough and trivial enough to be understood and loved by our greedy, nervous, illiterate sponsors.’” Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z The New Yorker sneered at the error, Ogden Nash wrote a poem about it, Walter Cronkite refused to say it on the air, and Strunk and White declared it illiterate. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z “The new Nigerian upper class is a collection of illiterates who read nothing and eat food they dislike at overpriced Lebanese restaurants and have social conversations around one subject: ‘How’s the new car behaving?’” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z This hobby, Mahmoud insisted, was taking them away from their schoolwork, and if they forsook their education for pigeons, he would be stuck with not only the birds but two illiterate sons. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “Okay, Mr. Teacher! See you!” the soldier said and Ugwu thought he saw a glimmer of triumph in his eyes, the illiterate fool. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z These workers, illiterate but sharp-witted, who for some reason called themselves The Club, assumed that the better-educated readers looked down on them. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z How long will it be before a mainstream publisher allows an illiterate tide into print? Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z Former slaves, it was argued, were too illiterate to exercise the vote responsibly, and were ill-prepared for the duties of public office. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Most of the policyholders were illiterate and did not know that their policies carried clauses severely restricting their benefit payments, and, as an insurance agent, it was not my duty to tell them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother on the one side, illiterate but determined to have me drink, for better or for worse, from the well of knowledge. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z As a young man in Spain, Ruiz Zafón — whose grandparents were illiterate factory workers and whose father was an insurance agent — went into advertising. The bestselling literary sensation you may struggle to name 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z The protagonists are Fenton, an illiterate, convicted killer with a lazy Tennessee drawl, and Daniels, an ambitious Democratic congressman whose daughter was Fenton's victim. As We Forgive Them 2010-09-06T20:30:00Z They tell us we are women, we are so strong because we do so much more around the home and work than men, but yet we are financial illiterates who have no clue. The personal finance industry can’t save us 2013-03-06T20:53:00Z In ancient times, scribes churned out documents — love poems, prayers, lawsuits — for clients who were illiterate or too busy to write. Solving the Mystery of Ancient Ink Origins 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z And why does this most learned man have two illiterate daughters?” Roland Emmerich?s ?Anonymous? Seeks to Unmask Shakespeare 2011-10-22T03:03:02Z Rescuing her knowing but illiterate mother’s story from oblivion is key to a larger matter of survival, “what it means to be — not just me but us.” Family Memoirs: The Ties That Bind and Those That Fray 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z I wanted to rush in and embrace the illiterate proprietor. Embracing the Ordinary by Michael Foley - review 2012-07-18T07:00:02Z If noise is information, the current state of music, for example, appeals to the illiterate. In defense of noise: Damon Krukowski’s 'The New Analog: Listening and Reconnecting in a Digital World' 2017-04-27T04:00:00Z Osborne is not an economic illiterate; he's worse – a moral illiterate. Newcastle arts cuts sabotage magnificence of a region 2012-12-16T00:06:08Z His father, who was illiterate, picked cotton and later did machine work. Books Of the Times: ?The Last Hero,? Howard Bryant on Henry Aaron 2010-05-09T21:56:00Z My protagonist became Generic Old Man: crabby, computer illiterate, grieving for his dementia-addled wife. What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z She grew up with parents who were illiterate. ‘Women Talking’ and What a Post-#MeToo Future Looks Like 2022-12-21T05:00:00Z I am fairly illiterate and then I got into it, and then it becomes this thing that you kind of have to feed it. Five actors on faking confidence, the Batsuit and tea breaks 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z Harvey Keitel is the illiterate settler who acquires the instrument after it is abandoned on a beach, then offers to return it to Ada in exchange for lessons — one for each key. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Shakespeare Live! From the Royal Shakespeare Company’ and ‘Sense8: A Christmas Special’ 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z Velvet lives in Crown Heights with her wary, largely illiterate and sometimes brutal mother, who was born in the Dominican Republic. Review: In ‘The Mare,’ Mary Gaitskill Writes About a Girl Caught in a Domestic Swirl 2015-10-26T04:00:00Z And presumably it is at least an implication of Bacon's dictum that our poor illiterate lonely hordes are neither companied nor "full", for reading accomplisheth fullness. Reading is overrated 2011-02-17T15:48:22Z An operation like this requires burner phones, codes, encryption — a self-described “clandestine horror show for the single most technologically illiterate man left standing.” 5 craziest moments in Sean Penn’s El Chapo Rolling Stone story 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z As the illiterate, emotionally abusive, racially insensitive Essex foster mother of nine, we have … Kate Beckinsale, best known for toned action heroines and withering upper-class comedies. Kate Beckinsale on her role in Farming: 'If the parent is 100% evil, it's almost less damaging' 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Even the most refined aristocrat of antiquity would have been told nursery stories by his first attendants, who were illiterate slaves and peasants. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z Another writer optimistically predicted that Horne would “play legitimate roles and not have to do ‘illiterate comedy’ or portray a cook.” Academy Museum’s Show on Black Cinema Raises Questions About Who It’s for 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z They were illiterate so there is a problem of methodology and how to get at the voices of these people. Roots of white rage: America’s clash of class and race, from the Civil War to the rise of Trump 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z The most troubling thing about “Anonymous” is not that it turns Shakespeare into an illiterate money-grubber. Op-Ed Contributor: Hollywood Dishonors the Bard 2011-10-17T04:18:07Z At school, Vuong was buffeted by English long before he could use it—his family was illiterate, and he didn’t learn to read until he was eleven. How a Poet Named Ocean Means to Fix the English Language 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z He remains best known for his role as the illiterate outlaw Mongo in Mel Brooks' comedy Blazing Saddles, in which he punched a horse unconscious. Blazing Saddles' Mongo dies at 77 2012-10-11T09:35:04Z About them: To the people of the Seven Kingdoms a bunch of illiterate savages, to themselves a proud collective of the truly free. Game of Thrones: would you join Julia Gillard in House Targaryen? 2013-05-27T02:40:05Z But that was anathema to economically illiterate leaders who saw interdependence as weakness. Blindly over the brink 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z In the May 2013 tweet, Mr. Trump called Mr. Chait’s employer, New York magazine, “a piece of garbage” and the political reporter himself a “no-talent illiterate hack.” Overrated? Loser? Not if It’s Trump Who Calls You Out 2017-01-11T05:00:00Z She observes that while she might be illiterate, she understands the deeper currents of character and story. Review | In Monique Truong’s ‘The Sweetest Fruits,’ 19th-century writer Lafcadio Hearn comes to life 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z Two other aspects of Mom’s life that went unnoticed: She was illiterate and had cancer. Books of The Times: A Mother?s Devotion, a Family?s Tearful Regrets 2011-03-30T22:25:15Z In June, his first novel, “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous,” written as a Vietnamese immigrant son’s letter to his illiterate mother, came out to much fanfare. MacArthur Foundation Announces 26 ‘Genius’ Grant Winners 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z They are as young as 17 and as old as 70, urban professors as well as illiterate farmers. Toronto Suddenly Has a New Craving: Syrian Food 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Her mother, who was illiterate, was a “crazed creative figure,” Ms. Applebroog recalled, who added fur accents to her daughter’s hand-sewn clothes. She’s Her Own Artist. And a Daughter’s Muse. 2016-06-17T04:00:00Z They write, “If you haven’t read hundreds of books, you are functionally illiterate, and you will be incompetent, because your personal experiences alone aren’t broad enough to sustain you.” Please shut up, Mr. President, and read some books 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z First, a national register of citizens would kick millions of poor and illiterate people off the rolls. John Oliver explains Trump's support of Modi, India's 'temporary symbol of hate' 2020-02-24T05:00:00Z Oh, and God may or may not be illiterate. Holy joke: how God became an unlikely TV comedy staple 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z The prize, the Southeast Asian Writers Award, is an unusual achievement for the son of illiterate farmers. A Poet's Return Home to Thailand's Violent South 2010-10-20T16:28:00Z She was probably largely illiterate, but she encouraged him to learn. Abraham Lincoln, bare-knuckle brawler? 2012-12-12T22:26:00Z Later that year, I sat cross-legged on the floor of my illiterate mother-in-law’s sparse home on the outskirts of Tripoli, studying the tattoo that ran down her chin as she welcomed me in Arabic. The Valentine’s Day we got it all wrong — and right 2014-02-14T00:00:00Z You need to have an eighth-grade reading proficiency level to get a driver’s license, yet apparently you can be functionally illiterate and work for L.A. HGTV: Winning the war for gay marriage 2012-05-17T16:00:00Z The collective finger-jabbing doesn’t deter the illiterate Joan, who hears voices and continues the impassioned crusade that in life resulted in her grim death, being burned at the stake at age 19. Review: ‘Art’ and ‘Saint Joan’ 2017-01-16T05:00:00Z For no good reason, Rackley, an illiterate young man, was suspected of being an informant. Black power’s coolest radicals (but also a gang of ruthless killers) 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z Set in the 1950s, it focuses on Kya, an illiterate 10-year-old who must fend for herself in the North Carolina marshes after her mother and then her father abandon her. With ‘Where the Crawdads Sing,’ a Debut Novel Goes Big 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Imbrailo excels in the poignant scene where Billy sings a dreamy farewell before his hanging, achieving a rare moment, for this illiterate character, of poetic elegance. Opera Review: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd,’ From Glyndebourne to BAM 2014-02-09T22:34:46Z That an illiterate fieldhand born two decades after the Civil War would not only record a way of life that she watched disappear, but also spawn a new appreciation for the work of self-taught artists? Looking for Clementine Hunter’s Louisiana 2013-06-14T20:04:57Z It covers grammar, because all that texting is causing us to become a country of unemployable illiterates. At 66, Dave Barry still hasn’t figured out women 2014-03-05T22:29:13Z Well, the Greeks were philosophers and poets and dreamers and seekers of truth who spent much of their time on this planet trying to unearth the meaning of life, whereas the Vikings were illiterate morons. Valhalla Rising v Clash of the Titans: there will be blood 2010-03-18T22:05:00Z The Third, critics asserted, sanctioned scores of words—“finalize,” “irregardless,” “wise up,” “hepcat,” “ain’t”—without the ruler on the knuckles they deserved, labels such as “colloquial,” “erroneous,” “incorrect,” or “illiterate.” Oxford Junior Dictionary Drops "Acorn" for "Broadband" 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z Online hatred of her can verge on gleeful, and she fears that if she responds to criticism — or a bizarre rumor that she is illiterate — it will fuel the fire. Lea Michele Is Well Aware That the Pressure Is On 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z The net result: High school students are virtually illiterate on the subject, and this has had severe consequences for our national life. Were the Founders Against Slavery All Along? 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z This concept of doing messaging through drama serials as opposed to a billboard was a very new idea in Afghanistan, where 86 percent of the country is illiterate. Book Talk: Making Soapies in Kabul 2014-06-25T04:00:00Z Eventually, Haddish’s grandmother got custody of kids, and Haddish went to school, where she managed to hide the fact that she was illiterate until she was 14. Tiffany Haddish: ‘If Meryl Streep can go to the Oscars 22 times, why can’t I?' 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z But in the early 1600s, in a German town called Leonberg, an illiterate widow named Katharina was arrested for sickening a fellow villager with a demonic potion. Review | The story of Europe’s infamous witch trials gets the Monty Python treatment 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Its few thousand inhabitants, mostly poor and illiterate, survived largely on animal herding, fishing and pearl diving. Critic?s Notebook: Building Museums, and a Fresh Arab Identity 2010-11-29T19:10:00Z Emotionally illiterate and wracked with guilt and shame, I turned my anger inward. On transfeminine anger 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z She was steeped in service from an early age, observing her mother and aunt educating illiterate girls in Dhaka, where she spent part of her childhood. Mahasweta Devi, Bengali Writer and Activist Who Fought Injustice, Dies at 90 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z It got her here: “The granddaughter of illiterate Chinese farmers is running for Congress.” The congressional kid: How a millennial plans to make it to the Capitol 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z He believed he had inherited his role as a kind of lexical commander in chief from medieval monks, whose literacy in a mostly illiterate world demonstrated the extraordinary power of words to shape reality. Rammellzee?s Work and Reputation Re-emerge 2012-02-24T02:36:40Z He was steadfast in his contempt for rock music, calling it “junk” produced by “illiterates.” Gene Lees, Jazz Critic and Historian, Dies at 82 2010-04-27T03:33:00Z That was their sound, and people called them illiterate musicians. | Skrillex: Electric Flight Orchestra 2012-08-05T03:00:03Z The images in this and other Bucovina monasteries were intended to instruct, entertain and enlighten illiterate soldiers and peasants and to underline their loyalties. Cultured Traveler: Romanian Church Murals Offer Colorful Lessons 2010-06-18T16:50:00Z In Our Mutual Friend, the first thing the illiterate dustman Mr. Boffin does on inheriting a fortune is to hire a man to read to him nightly from Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Why to Read Dickens Now (Or Watch Him on TV) 2012-01-26T19:39:00Z Literacy is actually killing off this tradition, Dalrymple suggests; only the illiterate seem to have the brain capacity to absorb and remember these magnificent relics of oral history. 'Nine Lives': the everyday practitioners of Hinduism, Buddhism and Islam in a changing India 2010-06-19T00:36:00Z You write that Jesus was almost certainly illiterate because most people were at the time. ArtsBeat: The Life of Jesus: Reza Aslan Talks About ‘Zealot’ 2013-08-02T20:42:32Z Eric Williams, the curator of religion at the Smithsonian’s Center for the Study of African American Religious Life, considers the book particularly revelatory, given that Tubman was illiterate. Harriet Tubman’s Hymnal 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z But in the hope of better transmitting the information to a largely illiterate audience, he recruited a 51-year-old midwife named Mary Coley to play the protagonist in a series of dramatic re-enactments. George C. Stoney, Documentarian, Dies at 96 2012-07-15T05:57:17Z The mother of Shin's story may be illiterate but like all mothers she is anything but simple. Missing mother looms large in Korean novel 2011-05-31T20:34:03Z Hieroglyphics was a complete written language, and while even an illiterate person could recognize and understand some basic symbols, the scribes worked according to strict rules and had to be highly skilled. Emojis Meet Hieroglyphs: If King Tut Could Text 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z His new father, Herbert Dean, a laborer, was illiterate and signed his name with an “X.” Walter Dean Myers, multimillion-selling children’s author, dies at 76 I am not suggesting, by the way, that the Tories are not economically illiterate – their stubborn insistence on acting as if Keynes had never existed is a tragedy for us all. Arts funding cuts will bring down the curtain on our theatre's golden age 2010-07-28T12:31:00Z Poor old illiterates, stripped in a trice of the love and affection of friends and family, sundered from a God whom one does not have to read about to believe in. Reading is overrated 2011-02-17T15:48:22Z He read mostly comic books and was “pretty illiterate,” he said, until he was 17. Martin Amis, Acclaimed Author of Bleakly Comic Novels, Dies at 73 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z It pairs a sheltered, coddled rich girl with a diamond in the rough, a charismatic illiterate from the wrong side of the tracks. Joe Queenan's guide to romance cliches 2010-10-16T11:00:00Z I suddenly realised something that had escaped me till now: my great grandmother in the County Durham coalfields was illiterate. Labour championing Banksy? It's a betrayal of party values 2013-02-27T15:26:06Z The film’s observations of this primitive, largely illiterate society are of obvious ethnographic interest. | 'Summer Pasture': A Life Herding Yaks, Modernity on the Horizon 2011-08-14T23:21:49Z “And that wasn’t easy ’cause that was all that was offered me”: easy, ignorant, illiterate and needy women. Rita Moreno on strength, stamina and the power of a killer body In a town where executives and especially agents are often illiterate about the history of TV and movies, Mr. Sarandos is an unabashed fan. Ted Sarandos Talks About That Stock Drop, Backing Dave Chappelle, and Hollywood Schadenfreude 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z Its colony is a patriarchal religious order that keeps its women illiterate, subjects them to systematic violence and tells them they are imagining things. Breaking Out of the #MeToo Movie Formula 2022-12-31T05:00:00Z Camus' illiterate and deaf mother, who worked as a cleaning woman, features prominently in the novel, as does his deep attachment to her. The top 10 books about disability 2013-07-03T10:32:34Z Watch the clip below to see Murray reveal that he’s not totally computer illiterate — he uses Google! Bill Murray Has 'Never Seen Neflix' 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z It is just economically illiterate not to understand that theatre effectively pays for itself many, many times over. Arts funding cuts will bring down the curtain on our theatre's golden age 2010-07-28T12:31:00Z "Most slaves were illiterate and even when they were literate, their writings didn't survive." 'Wench,' a novel based on a little-known aspect of slavery, due in paperback Tuesday 2011-01-22T01:10:05Z “The local people, the illiterate people, were amazed.” Intricate church vestments go on show in London exhibition 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z I remarked upon how underbred, illiterate, insistent, raw & ultimately nauseating she was before retiring from the room to my bed, therewith to restore myself with a little George Eliot. Craig Brown: The Lost Diaries 2010-10-01T23:05:00Z He had been born into humble circumstances in a tiny village in Portugal, the grandson of illiterate pig farmers, and he came of age in 1930s Lisbon, where his father worked as a police officer. Book review: ‘Skylight’ by Jose Saramago 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z The film then shifts, explaining how bin Laden's father, described as "a one-eyed illiterate Yemeni laborer," rose to become Saudi Arabia's biggest contractor. Tribeca film explores al Qaeda's history and culture 2010-04-24T21:18:00Z People all over the world think they know something about Appalachia because they’ve seen “Deliverance,” which is a well-made but terribly stereotypical thriller portraying hillbillies as soulless, illiterate and mean-hearted villains. Deliver me from “Deliverance”: Finally, a Hollywood movie gets Appalachian people right 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z Before the bewildered, illiterate woman could find her way home, she was thrown in another jail in Damascus. Syria’s Women Prisoners, Drawn by an Artist Who Was One 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z A follow-up to the novel Push, the story of illiterate 16-year-old Precious Jones, filmed as Precious, was also announced at the fair. Steve Jobs life and science blockbuster cause stir at London Book Fair 2011-04-13T16:11:09Z Libertarianism is politically and sociologically illiterate, as it aspires to deny any connection between people outside of commerce or, what F. A. Hayek called, “voluntary transaction.” My regrettable libertarian romance: I rebounded from my experimental phase, but many don't 2019-05-07T04:00:00Z A dark tale of a young, illiterate petty criminal who gradually climbs up a brutal prison hierarchy, "A Prophet" took nine awards on the night, leaving little for the rest of the field. "A Prophet" triumphs at French film awards 2010-02-28T00:21:00Z And I’m pretty sure it had something to do with an illiterate Nepalese woman with a nose pin, septum piercing and thick gold hoops in her ears. ‘I stood there, mouth gaping, words stuck’: how a comedian cured her stammer 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Our future reading, whether we turn or swipe the page, remains a long way from that inimical, illiterate Veldt. For young readers, the book's the thing whatever technology may bring 2012-06-13T14:41:01Z He also says he wrote the memoir in longhand, being "completely computer illiterate." Charismatic Las Vegas mob lawyer mayor pens memoir 2013-05-21T07:16:08Z Like many of his films, it's fueled by the dichotomy between country and city, illiterate and educated, old and young — in short, the never-ending tangle of past and present. Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien captures life's big, small moments 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z But she was more educated; he was rather illiterate. Love Is Not a Permanent State of Enthusiasm: An Interview with Esther Perel 2018-12-09T05:00:00Z Anna must navigate Lydia's manipulations that begin from the moment they meet when she realizes the new arrival is illiterate. "The Luminaries" is a simple, heavenward gaze at an affair interrupted by a con 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z All but one were poor and most likely illiterate. Witch ways: knowing your heart’s desire is modern witchcraft 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z Instead, without comment, he gleefully forwarded my intemperate, illiterate, moronic tweet to his million-plus devotees. READ THIS YOU STUPID IDOITS! 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Douglas, born when Woodrow Wilson was president, was one of seven children and the only son of illiterate Russian Jewish immigrants. Kirk Douglas: ‘I never thought I’d live to 100. That’s shocked me’ 2017-02-12T05:00:00Z Although she was an illiterate country girl, she was smart enough to convince her parents that voices from Heaven were telling her to leave home and restore the king to his throne. | The Koan of Joan 2012-01-06T22:30:09Z Johnson grew up in the Mississippi Delta with his mother and stepfather, an illiterate sharecropper. A Biography of a Blues Legend, Five Decades in the Making 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z As the illiterate child of a house of ill-repute, Sue is well educated in the ways of the world, so it seems like a comment on different sorts of knowingness. Sarah Waters: ‘The Handmaiden turns pornography into a spectacle – but it's true to my novel' 2017-04-08T04:00:00Z According to the Hugheses and Williams, the character of O-Dog was illiterate and raised by his sister, with absentee parents. Perspective | The opening scene of ‘Menace II Society’ still delivers a jolt, 25 years after the film’s release 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Dial’s formal education ended in early elementary school, and he was largely illiterate. Thornton Dial, who turned scrap metal, animal bones and other found objects into museum art, dies at 87 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Many of its people are illiterate and one child in seven dies before the age of five. VIDEO: Ros Wynne Jones on South Sudan 2011-07-15T07:13:14Z She was in her 70s, couldn't speak a word of English, spoke Mandarin with a strong accent and was illiterate. Ten airport horror stories that will make you never want to fly again 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z Speaking at the , Sapphire said that when Push – the novel that became the film Precious – was published, readers found it difficult to grasp that she, the author, was separate from its impoverished, abused, illiterate narrator. Novelist Sapphire complains of 'very real' racism in the arts 2011-08-23T14:37:08Z Online writing, you see, is destroying the purity of English as we know it and threatening to dumb us all down into a herd of screen-jabbing illiterates. Internet English debasing the language? Not IMHO | 2013-05-28T10:10:43Z In Burton’s film, there are no dark-skinned roustabouts singing about how they’re happy to be illiterate and “slave until we’re almost dead”. Grounded? How Disney's Dumbo flop could threaten its master plan 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z It is an idea, as Montgomery observes, "as scientifically illiterate as the idea that the Sun circles us." 'The Rocks Don't Lie': looking at the evidence for a Noah-style flood 2012-08-15T19:03:03Z My grandfather was a working class man from the Bronx whose own dyslexia was so profound, he bordered on illiterate. My father, his honor: Losing his prestigious job likely saved his life 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z "The Gandhi I've pursued is the one who claimed once to `have been trying all my life to identify myself with the most illiterate and downtrodden,'" Lelyveld writes. A portrait of Gandhi's growth as social reformer 2011-03-29T17:01:04Z A few were educated, some were illiterate; but what counted was their common capacity to flourish in frontier settlements. 'The Barbarous Years': Tough times for early American settlers 2012-11-20T21:35:13Z That may be the maker’s name, he said, “or it’s possible the guy was borderline illiterate and was trying to write ‘special.’ A Rich Lode of American Ceramics Discoveries 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z Or again, there is the menacing late story "The Gospel According to Mark", in which a flash flood forces a young medical student to spend several days with a benighted and illiterate peasant family. Professor Borges: A Course on English Literature by Jorge Luis Borges – review 2013-05-30T11:00:01Z It was distasteful enough to run elbows with an illiterate and vulgar white man of no ancestry,—the risk of similar contact with negroes was to be avoided at any cost. America's legacy of racial terror and Charles W. Chesnutt's "The Marrow of Tradition" 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z Marx had predicted that communism would come in the most advanced of the capitalist countries, not in backward, roadless, shoeless, illiterate Russia. Red star rising 2010-08-06T23:04:00Z In a 2009 memoir, Pitts revealed how he overcame a stutter and said he was essentially illiterate until about age 12. Correspondent Byron Pitts joins ABC News from CBS 2013-04-01T14:59:08Z Then I finally got invited into the Mansion on the Hill and discovered that the residents were all illiterate slobs. ArtsBeat: Q. and A.: Joe Queenan on Books Classic, Trashy and Otherwise 2012-11-30T15:00:16Z I think the policies of austerity are both socially devastating and economically illiterate. Glastonbury 2013: views from Leftfield 2013-06-30T16:00:02Z Many of the patients were illiterate — an outgrowth of the prohibition on reading among enslaved people — and the archives don’t include their writing anyway. A Virginia mental institution for Black patients, opened after the Civil War, yields a trove of disturbing records 2021-03-26T04:00:00Z Shooting from the viewpoint of an illiterate street kid, Naderi employs a mature artist’s disciplined technique to celebrate a child’s new-minted vision of his hardscrabble world. ‘The Runner’ Is a Gem of the Iranian New Wave 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z The son of a hosier, he married the illiterate daughter of a Battersea market gardener. William Blake's passionate humanity 2010-08-12T15:00:00Z Hungarian artist Janos Sugar uses pictures of people in today's conflict zones waving their simple weapons to show how the gun became "the typewriter of the illiterate." Artists turn Bosnia nuke bunker into art gallery 2013-04-26T15:33:10Z It’s like an illiterate person who may be very intelligent, but just never learned to read, and many times leads a successful life because they learn ways around it. A Colorblind Artist? Yes, With a Little Help From His Friends 2017-12-23T05:00:00Z It had to tell stories that illiterate peasants could understand. The middle ages invented fine art ... and Britain itself 2012-08-08T15:40:27Z The state never caught on… They are one of the families I know whose children are functionally illiterate. Zombie state 2012-06-08T14:45:00Z Herbert Dean worked as a janitor and was illiterate. Walter Dean Myers: Ambassador for Young People?s Literature 2012-01-03T05:00:00Z By most estimates, 98 per cent of the population was illiterate. ArtsBeat: The Life of Jesus: Reza Aslan Talks About ‘Zealot’ 2013-08-02T20:42:32Z “And then all of the movie lunatics glared at me, like I admitted to being illiterate.” Fran Lebowitz and Martin Scorsese Seek a Missing New York in ‘Pretend It’s a City’ 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z Through the course of the novel, inquisitive, plucky Jahan grows from an illiterate 12-year-old to one of the trusted apprentices of Chief Royal Architect Sinan to a respected master of his craft. ‘The Architect’s Apprentice’: a boy and an elephant in Istanbul 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z The film’s meanspirited tone picks on both creatures and humans, like construction workers for being illiterate, animals almost too dumb to survive and the wicked rich. Review: ‘The Nut Job 2’ Squirrels Away the Laughs for Itself 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z This is not polling people who are illiterate – it's a representative sample. Four million UK adults never read books for pleasure 2013-02-14T17:47:36Z But my parents didn’t lack empathy even though they didn’t read — not because they didn’t want to but because they were illiterate. Rigoberto González grew up in a family of immigrant farmerworkers. Now he writes award-winning books. 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z I may call myself an artist, but I’m functionally illiterate on art. Bruce McCall’s “Down the Hatch” 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z The grandmother who raised him, though illiterate, worked at the Pollsmoor prison — during apartheid, Coloured people often found themselves both victims and enforcers. Art That Finds Clarity in South Africa’s Fraught Terrain 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z By and large, illiterate peasants working all day in the field don't have the luxury to despair at the ceaseless collapse of culturally generated meaning in a godless universe. One big yawn: boredom is not just a state of mind 2011-07-16T23:05:46Z When I Googled “illiberate” to see if it is even a word, Google asked, “Did you mean illiterate?” Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Trumpling all over American history 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z It’s like an illiterate person who may be very intelligent but just never learned to read, and many times leads a successful life because they learn ways around it. Colorblind, he chose art anyway 2017-12-28T05:00:00Z No matter how hard you try, you can't make cutting-edge astrophysics intelligible for the scientifically illiterate. TV review: Horizon: Seeing Stars; Safebreakers and Only Connect 2011-08-15T21:00:02Z Now he has started saying that I must really suck if lazy illiterates are paid for their time but in three years no one has written me a single check. Hire me, I’m a volunteer! 2012-10-10T00:00:00Z There are a billion illiterate people in the world; two-thirds of them are women. Jeanette Winterson: 100 years after the suffragettes 2013-03-29T15:59:01Z How can you employ a lecturer who is this illiterate? Not-so essential reading 2010-10-22T08:43:00Z He was young, embittered, and almost completely illiterate. The Encyclopedia Reader 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z A note in the margin: “ ‘Tipping points’ is a propaganda slogan designed to frighten the scientifically illiterate.” How should we talk about what’s happening to our planet? 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z This starts to eerily recall the “grandfather clause,” the origin of which was an attempt in 19th-century America to prevent poor, illiterate African-Americans from voting, while allowing poor, illiterate whites to vote. Are there any truly great American artists? 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Maybe it is because we are becoming, as David McCullough said, a nation of historical illiterates. Virginia’s Lost History 2012-11-22T18:48:32Z “He was illiterate, and yet went to court and got writs of habeas corpus,” Mr. Foner said. Eric Foner Revisits Myths of the Underground Railroad 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z And just as the literate brain is physically different to the illiterate brain, the digitally savvy brain is different again. Martin Amis: 'You have to be slightly innocent to be a novelist' 2011-04-02T23:08:29Z Anna, whom Blight describes as “largely illiterate,” could be of little help with her husband’s journalism. Frederick Douglass in Full 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z Mississippi is illiterate, unemployed, bigoted, pro-life, white, racist, homophobic, transphobic, conservative, evangelical—everything bad associated with the South, Mississippi bears the brunt of it. Don’t write off Mississippi: Before you dismiss us as “a garbage state,” listen to the queer Southerners you’re leaving behind 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z Standards would rise and formerly illiterate brats in key stage II would relax after double quantum physics by dancing around the maypole singing settings of Horace’s verse in Latin, just like in Michael Gove’s dreams. Why too much choice is stressing us out 2015-10-21T04:00:00Z Surrogate mothers, often illiterate, also move in a deeply entrenched class and social hierarchy. Paying for baby: the trouble with renting a womb | Abby Rabinowitz 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z “An illiterate, underbred book it seems to me: the book of a self-taught working man, & we all know how distressing they are, how egotistic, insistent, raw, striking & ultimately nauseating.” Was 1925 Literary Modernism’s Most Important Year? 2021-03-20T04:00:00Z The son of an illiterate tenant farmer, he has built a thriving transportation company. Mario Vargas Llosa’s delicious melodrama of sex, love and revenge 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Most of the people on earth are illiterate. A Science-Fiction Classic Still Smolders 2014-10-22T04:00:00Z It is a work that combines psychosexual portraiture that anticipates Freud with stock farcical figures like the illiterate cop and various rascally lowlifes. Review: Shakespeare Meets Elevator Repair Service. Mayhem Ensues. 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z The dominant killer, Zander, is the illiterate, deranged survivor of extreme childhood abuse by a woman, abuse that left him burning to make women suffer. ‘The Killing Lessons’ review: A thriller for abnormal psychologists 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z And then we learn that he's basically illiterate? "Entourage" recap: 8x2 2011-08-01T06:01:00Z As Toffler said, “The illiterate of the future will not be the person who cannot read. It will be the person who does not know how to learn.” Hollywood knows it must change. Movies like ‘Tarzan’ show it will be slow-going. 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z Under studio contract in the 1950s and ’60s, Moreno recounts the painful times she spent playing “illiterate, immoral island girls” and fending off Hollywood executives who demanded sexual favors. ‘Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It’ Review: An Icon’s Growing Pains 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z The stories of the saints he regarded as preposterous fables invented to hoodwink a gullible and illiterate populace. Catholic art was once the domain of Titian. Now, we get Susan Boyle 2010-09-19T21:15:00Z I had a couple of namby-pamby aunts who always gave me book tokens, a present almost purposely designed to remind me how thick and illiterate I was. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z Poetry — which prompts you with rhymes — is far easier to memorize than prose, so even illiterates could hear it and pass it along. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: Capturing the pandemic and protests in poetry 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z Official statistics show that nearly 10 percent of detainees are illiterate. From Behind Bars, Inmates Award France’s Latest Book Prize 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z The brains of illiterate people, for example, are structurally different from those of people who can read. The internet: is it changing the way we think? 2010-08-14T23:05:00Z Yet the winner in general nonfiction — the category was then called contemporary affairs — was “All God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw,” an oral history of an illiterate black Alabama sharecropper. Critic’s Notebook: ‘All God’s Dangers,’ a Forgotten Autobiography 2014-04-18T21:44:48Z The most effective way to administer care was to train thousands of accompagnateurs, or community health workers--many of them illiterate--who match medical needs with socioeconomic facts among those with chronic diseases. First Respo 2011-11-16T23:00:00Z Having signified death in many cultures for centuries, a skull and crossbones would have been instantly recognizable even in the lawless, turbulent, largely illiterate world of the sea. Design: Skull and Crossbones as Branding Tool 2011-05-01T16:56:02Z Because Mr. Dial is self-taught and illiterate, he has generally been classified as a folk or outsider artist. Art: Letting His Life?s Work Do the Talking 2011-02-20T02:02:00Z Crank, who is functionally illiterate, resents the academically gifted Cookie. Theater Review: ?Hurt Village,? by Katori Hall 2012-02-28T03:00:00Z I might be illiterate to this day if not for newspaper strips and comic books. Eyeball Kicks: Jules Feiffer’s Glory Years 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z There are some stark differences between the two; Saint was an avid reader from day one, while Ross was illiterate until he went to prison. FX's fearless "Snowfall" comes to a close: A perfect ending to an American horror story 2023-04-23T04:00:00Z His father’s story is mythic in their family: Ruilin Yang grew up in a straw and mud hut in an arid, rural part of China, just south of Mongolia, with illiterate parents, according to Bowen. Bowen Yang of ‘S.N.L.’ Is a Smash. And a Mensch. 2020-01-25T05:00:00Z It’s not easy to think of a good “gateway game,” one that’s sufficiently approachable for the gaming illiterate while also demonstrating the promise of video games as something more than a vehicle for fast-twitch excitement. Video Game Review: The Walking Dead: Season Two Is Appropriate for Beginners 2013-12-22T21:29:48Z They would be reflections from bureaucrats and wage slaves, from stay-at-home moms and retired managers, from middle school kids and people who are illiterate. “Comment sections are brilliant and extremely relevant”: Christy Wampole on the awfulness of Facebook, the utility of “think pieces” and why you might be reading the Internet all wrong 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Too often, young people hear a distorted view of other faith traditions. To be religiously illiterate in this world is foolish and dangerous. Tony Blair: 'To be religiously illiterate is foolish' 2010-08-02T21:00:00Z “But let’s not forget that when she arrived in France she was only 19, she was almost illiterate … She had to build her political and racial consciousness,” he said. Black artist Josephine Baker honored at France’s Pantheon 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z In “Ease and Plenty,” an illiterate black miner provides a poignant moment for Edgar when he asks for help writing a note. Novels of White Status Anxiety 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z His grandparents were all Irish-speaking farming people, and two of them were illiterate. Brian Friel, Playwright Called the Irish Chekhov, Dies at 86 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z "Complicated haircuts are a legacy of the decadent classes," rules ringleader Hongbao, but the sly local hairdresser claims his illiterate clientele won't be able to read the list of restrictions they've written. A Chinese Life by Li Kunwu and P Ôtié – review 2012-10-12T07:00:01Z Or, like Mrs Gamp, in Charles Dickens’s Martin Chuzzlewit, illiterate and drunk on gin. Health warning: why the sexy nurse stereotype is no laughing matter 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z For much of his life, Mr. Mendelsund felt “visually illiterate,” he said. Peter Mendelsund, Book Designer, Debuts as a Writer 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z The funniest thing for my friends with that movie was that I am social-media illiterate. Elizabeth Olsen on Grief, the Scarlet Witch and Her Next Life 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z Mohan, a letter-writer for illiterates at the GPO, reads Henry James and daydreams; Lakshmi is bullied by her autocratic older brother and in thrall to daytime television. First fiction 2010-10-01T23:15:00Z Stanton’s daughter would read newspapers aloud to Truth, who was illiterate. Sculptor crafting first women’s statue for Central Park 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Murray, an illiterate farm worker from Georgia whose creations ended up in museums and galleries all over the world. L.A. theater openings, July 20-27: 'No Exit,' 'Streetcar' and more 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z Liddell dismissed the idea: “What I needed for my work to happen is to be who I am, to have illiterate parents when I was growing up, poor grandparents, a mother who was intellectually impaired.” For This Spanish Provocateur, Each Performance Is About Survival 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z So much for the old saw that we, like the myth most white Mississippians believe, were Scotch Irish, too poor to own slaves, and illiterate from the start. Despite my mama’s secret shame, she was the smartest person I knew 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Other moments are more subtle, though, as in the wordless ostracizing Antonio experiences on his first day of school as a poor and illiterate but eager farm kid. Review: `Ultima' an earnest coming-of-age tale 2013-02-21T12:42:18Z In those early years of her career, interviewers were surprised that she was not, in fact, a beaten-down illiterate teenager. Gabourey Sidibe Doesn’t Want to Talk About Her Body 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z Carlson at one point complained about “the illiterates posing as political analysts on your TV,” presumably on rival networks. For media, Iowa is a confusing carnival of democracy 2020-02-03T05:00:00Z The weatherman is a sad goof, the lifestyle specialist is functionally illiterate. Morning Glory's Rachel McAdams: When Perky Makes Perfect 2010-11-19T14:15:00Z How did you get such phenomenal performances out of a 12-year-old, who was illiterate when you started shooting, and an infant? ‘Capernaum’ Is Not Just a Film, but a Rallying Cry 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z In an autobiographical essay published in 1985, he wrote that his mother was illiterate and that he taught her to read and write. Tonino Guerra, Italian Screenwriter and Poet, Dies at 92 2012-03-23T04:08:37Z "My parents were poor and illiterate," he says, "so their ambition to educate us here was paramount." Much ado about Delhi: RSC's Indian Shakespeare 2012-08-01T07:01:00Z He was also a savvy entrepreneur and fabulist who, despite being illiterate and shunned by the Catholic Church, carved out a life soothsaying and healing ailing neighbors. Descended From Shamans and Ghost Whisperers 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z “Film is not the art of scholars but illiterates,” Herzog declares at one point. Werner Herzog, chicken hypnotist 2012-08-28T20:54:00Z Girls were then kept illiterate, married off at 15 to men three times their age and forced to hide their faces in public. Review | At last, we hear the beautiful — and sometimes bawdy — Persian poems by women 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z At least four films were made of “The Trail of the Lonesome Pine,” one of them by Cecil B. DeMille, and each showcases mountain people as illiterate, violent and in need of an urban savior. Deliver me from “Deliverance”: Finally, a Hollywood movie gets Appalachian people right 2015-10-25T04:00:00Z G making nothing great, H teaching us to hate, I you’re illiterate as well. Style Invitational Week 1291: Film flam — movie anagrams 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z Eventually Apana, who was illiterate, joined the Honolulu Police Department, where he became one of the most respected detectives on the squad. Book aims to redefine Charlie Chan for Asian-Americans 2010-08-19T20:20:00Z Bakunin, on the other hand, championed the revolutionary potential of the “uncivilized, the disinherited, the miserable, the illiterate” who would eventually throw off the yolk of oppression through violent revolt. Hushpuppy, anarchist antihero? 2012-08-09T19:40:00Z It tells the story of an illiterate and abused teen who enrolls in an alternative school. The black Oscar wins that got away | Peter Bradshaw 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z Mr. Comer said the article — and Democrats who are repeating it — are “dumb, financially illiterate people.” ‘You look like a Smurf’: GOP chairman blasts Democrats trying to discredit Biden impeachment probe 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Comer said the article — and Democrats who are repeating it — are “dumb, financially illiterate people.” Hill heats up: Republican accuses McCarthy of ambush with elbow; fiery exchanges erupt at Capitol 2023-11-14T05:00:00Z On 27 January 1758, his 61-year-old mother, Marguerite -- who was almost certainly illiterate -- sent a message written by an unknown scribe to complain: French love letters confiscated by Britain finally read after 265 years 2023-11-06T05:00:00Z The letter also takes issue with what it calls “over-simplistic or scientifically illiterate arguments” over the use of gender identities and biological definitions of sex. U.K. government vow to end ‘woke’ science draws rebuke from researchers 2023-10-17T04:00:00Z It’s like the olden days when illiterate people needed the town scribe to read and write their letters, except most nonspeakers are not illiterate. Meet the Seattle playwright of ‘Love Letters,’ highlighting autistic nonspeakers 2023-09-29T04:00:00Z “Threats are absent not because we lack tanks, but because there are few of us who are hungry, illiterate or unemployed,” President Oscar Arias said in a speech to the U.S. Costa Rica, the once-peaceful land of 'pura vida,' battles violence as cocaine trade grows 2023-09-14T04:00:00Z “If I was illiterate, I wouldn’t tell a soul.” The ‘science of reading’ swept reforms into classrooms nationwide. What about math? 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z Campbell suggested that Trump reads so little about policy and national security that he might be “functionally illiterate.” Biden is ‘old,’ Trump is ‘corrupt’: AP-NORC poll has ominous signs for both in possible 2024 rematch 2023-08-28T04:00:00Z I think we are a grief illiterate country and society. "We are a grief illiterate society": A psychotherapist on how to navigate loss in an era of excess 2023-08-20T04:00:00Z Asked during a news conference on Wednesday about Mr. Musk’s comment, Mr. Malema responded: “Why must I educate Elon Musk? He looks like an illiterate. The only thing that protects him is his white skin.” ‘Kill the Boer’ Song Fuels Backlash in South Africa and U.S. 2023-08-02T04:00:00Z "No possible good can come from incarcerating a... soul, largely illiterate, who has himself struggled with a lifetime of addiction," the letter said. Michael K Williams: Drug dealer in Wire actor overdose case jailed 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z And second, “No possible good can come from incarcerating a 71-year-old soul, largely illiterate, who has himself struggled with a lifetime of addiction.” Man sentenced to 30 months in death of ‘The Wire’ actor 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z Washington was 9 years old and illiterate when slavery was banned by the 13th Amendment in 1865. Column: Ron DeSantis and the whitewashing of slavery's horrors 2023-07-25T04:00:00Z The myth of the superior intelligence of rich people has taken a beating from the repeated public stupidity of people like Tesla CEO Elon Musk or illiterate reality TV host Donald Trump. Tax billionaires for their own good 2023-07-17T04:00:00Z They are historical illiterates who believe that America is a natural phenomenon instead of something precious that took centuries of sacrifice and struggle to achieve. As long as the Spirit of ‘76 endures, America will never die 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z In addition to convincing millions that pseudoscience is the real deal, these interest groups confuse the issue for millions of other well-intentioned but scientifically illiterate Americans. Climate change denial hit its stride in the Bush-Cheney era, precipitating today's climate disaster 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z The wife, who is often illiterate, is kept under constant surveillance to keep control over her, damaging her psychologically. They Married for a Life Abroad. But They Never Saw Their Husbands Again. 2023-06-13T04:00:00Z Many of the elderly are illiterate, and speak only Ixil or little Spanish. A Guatemalan dictator's daughter runs for president, illuminating the country's dark past 2023-06-12T04:00:00Z Supreme Court to block the execution, alleging in appeals that a juror at a sentencing hearing was illiterate, in violation of Missouri law. Missouri man executed for killing 2 jailers during failed bid to help inmate escape in 2000 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z Among them: Tisius was just 19 at the time of the killings; he had been neglected as a child; and a juror at his 2010 resentencing may have been illiterate — in violation of Missouri law. Missouri man set for execution on ’emotional roller coaster,’ attorney says 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z District Judge Stephen R. Bough issued the stay on Wednesday and ordered an evidentiary hearing after Tisius’ attorneys argued that a juror in his 2010 resentencing was illiterate, which is not allowed under state law. Federal court reinstates death penalty order for Missouri inmate convicted of killing jailers 2023-06-03T04:00:00Z Even though most labourers went willingly - possibly because they were not fully aware of the conditions they would face or signed agreements when they were illiterate - others were forcibly taken abroad. Man uniting Indian families torn by colonialism 2023-05-29T04:00:00Z Given that the immense majority of the population was completely illiterate, it was impossible for most Christians to have access to anything but the rudiments of Christian belief. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z At other times, politicians worried that children whose days were spent in factories would become physically inadequate soldiers or illiterate and uneducated citizens. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z A federal judge last week stayed the execution over the claim that a juror was illiterate, but an appeals panel reinstated it. Missouri man set for execution on ’emotional roller coaster,’ attorney says 2023-06-05T04:00:00Z Vedas were sung in rituals to celebrate a pantheon of gods representing various aspects of nature and human life and were a useful way of teaching, given that the Aryans were illiterate. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z He also appeals to the diaspora and illiterate people in rural areas who have no access to social media or the internet. In Pakistan clashes, Khan showed he commands huge crowds. What’s driving them? 2023-05-12T04:00:00Z Thus, even the illiterate enjoyed an increased access to information with print. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z Although illiterate himself, he amassed a large library of books in many languages, employed large numbers of translators and scholars, and established schools for both Muslims and Hindus. World History: from 1400 2022-12-14T00:00:00Z AOL was once powerful too, but its user base has aged and now an aol.com email address is little more than a punchline in a joke about technologically illiterate people of a certain age. Facebook has 3 billion users. Many of them are old. 2023-05-08T04:00:00Z They used sources like church records, newspapers, and court hearings to illuminate the lives of the poor and illiterate. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Repeatedly getting personal throughout the speech, Killer Mike called back to his own childhood and said his illiterate grandfather still understood that the U.S. Killer Mike goes off: 'Right now, in this country, your freedom of speech is at risk' 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Byzantine icons were beautifully crafted and, in a largely illiterate society, were vitally important in the daily experience of most Christians. Western Civilization: A Concise History 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z The annual three-day event is aimed at celebrating books and promoting literacy in a nation where over half the population is illiterate, according to World Bank figures, and access to libraries is limited. Guinea book festival hopes to turn the page on low literacy rate 2023-04-28T04:00:00Z Among the “defects” of others on the survey were wanderer, illiterate, feeble-minded, liar, deserted husband, town pauper, obstinate, alcoholic and bearer of stillborn twins. Vermont forms reconciliation panel after eugenics apology 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Paintings, mosaics, and in later periods stained-glass windows functioned as aids to worship and also as a means of teaching the mostly illiterate people about the Bible stories central to their faith. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Forgotten diaries have been found which reveal how a chance meeting changed the life of an illiterate baker - who became a pioneer of herbal medicine in Edinburgh. Forgotten diaries show how illiterate baker became pioneering herbalist 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z Taken together — the GOP's war on books and libraries — a picture emerges of what the Republican Party wants Americans to be: mindless, illiterate and compliant. GOP book-banning morphs into a new goal: Defunding libraries 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Beyond the walls of her gated neighborhood roam violent thieves, feral dogs, illiterate water peddlers and addicts whose drug of choice makes them hungry for arson. What Octavia E. Butler understood above all: vulnerability 2023-04-12T04:00:00Z “Yes,” answers the receptionist, “the signs don’t apply to illiterates.” Al Jaffee, King of the Mad Magazine Fold-In, Dies at 102 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z And because many people were illiterate at this time and not writing their history as it happened, we have less evidence outside religious scripture to help us reconstruct it. World History: to 1500 2023-04-19T00:00:00Z Painter Michelangelo drew each item on his list to help his illiterate servant. Food prices: How the humble shopping list is saving us money 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z He is illiterate, he said, “but I know the flavors in my mind.” A Shepherd, a Cook, a Palace Chef: Making Food With Less Under the Taliban 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z In his Feb. 25 annual letter to shareholders, Buffett defended buybacks, calling someone who views all repurchases as harmful "an economic illiterate or a silver-tongued demagogue." Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway speeds up stock buybacks 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z The only crazy, unbelievable plot turn is this: A group of illiterate and isolated women finds the words and the courage to resist the oppressive patriarchal authority that has dominated them. Opinion | ‘Women Talking’ is the escapist film the world really needs 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z Consider the abused, illiterate Mennonite women debating whether to leave their isolated community in Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking.” Opinion | The 2023 best picture nominees show parenting is an unbeatable source of joy 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z “Do you sit in a swivel chair? Are you served tea at your seat?” her mother, an illiterate laborer, asked. With Stories of Her Oppressed Community, a Journalist Takes Aim at the Walls of Caste 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z In his annual letter to shareholders, the billionaire C.E.O. of Berkshire Hathaway said to beware the buyback detractor — who is either an “economic illiterate or a silver-tongued demagogue.” The Trillion Dollar Debate Over Share Buybacks 2023-03-04T05:00:00Z While Biden didn't call for an end to buybacks, Buffett said those who do are "either an economic illiterate or a silver-tongued demagogue." Warren Buffett, in annual letter, stays upbeat and preaches patience 2023-02-25T05:00:00Z Judging by the edits they recommended, their actual passion is altering books to suit the most oversensitive and historically illiterate lunatic imaginable. Opinion | Why it’s wrong to rewrite Roald Dahl’s children’s books 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z It served as a stark reminder that, despite her classless and illiterate demeanor, Greene is actually a wealthy heiress who spent her pre-political life as a woman of leisure. Why do so many Republicans now dress like cartoon supervillains? 2023-02-13T05:00:00Z When liberals pointed out that the decision between global death and saying a racial slur is a false choice, Daily Wire leader Ben Shapiro said the left is "morally illiterate." GOP throw tantrum over Chrissy Teigen's truth-telling tweet about Trump 2023-02-10T05:00:00Z Distrustful of political action when the play begins, the illiterate Pelagea becomes an accidental activist after volunteering to distribute leaflets calling for a strike. Review: In Wooster Group's staging of Brecht's 'The Mother,' techno postmodernism turns political 2023-02-09T05:00:00Z He used Nicholas's example to show Mr Prajapati, who is illiterate, the possible impact of donating. Organ donation: 'My daughter was shot but lives on in those she saved' 2023-01-30T05:00:00Z Whenever I read a poll or study that says Americans are financially illiterate, I want to scream “It’s not their fault!” Advice | Birthday checklist: Get your most pressing money questions answered 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z Raised illiterate and in obedience, these women aren’t accustomed to thinking about what they want, and “Women Talking” simply lets us watch as they puzzle out a course of action. ‘Women Talking’ review: A powerful, moving tribute to quiet strength 2023-01-03T05:00:00Z Before he went viral, James rarely spoke about his disability, or the schooling that left him functionally illiterate. Learning to read, one TikTok at a time 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z His followers were a handful of mostly illiterate Jews who had never been more than 50 miles from where they were born. Embrace God’s message of hope and optimism this Christmas season 2022-12-25T05:00:00Z Close to two-thirds of Central Africans are illiterate. Putin Wants Fealty, and He’s Found It in Africa 2022-12-24T05:00:00Z “A society that leaves its children in the hands of ignorant and illiterate women cannot expect its members to serve and work hard,” he wrote. Turkey, Saudi Arabia decry Taliban university ban for women 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z Bonjean told the Chicago paper that the message appeared to be authentic but was most likely dictated by Kelly to someone else who typed it, as the singer has claimed to be illiterate. R. Kelly's team told police in February hundreds of master recordings were missing 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z Mr. Castillo, 53, who was elected president last year, was born to parents who were illiterate farmers in an impoverished, rural region without sewage and a lack of access to health care and schools. What We Know About the Political Turmoil in Peru 2022-12-09T05:00:00Z In her resignation letter, McGhee cited “the invisibility of junior employees’ workload” and alleged that “many executives in the publishing industry are technology illiterate” and dependent on their assistants. ‘Expressive times’: Publishing industry an open book in 2022 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z “The difference between an educated person and an illiterate person in everyday life is that he knows how to get help, he knows how to plug into the setup,” says Shakoor. Insurgency, neglect hurt flood relief in Pakistani province 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z “When the Taliban ruled the first time, we were illiterate and didn’t know our rights,” she said. A year in, the Taliban escalates its war against girls' education in Afghanistan 2022-11-21T05:00:00Z If an illiterate refugee of anti-Jewish pogroms in Eastern Europe could secure paid work with the nation’s leading antisemite, then the promise of America might be possible. Opinion | Kanye West’s antisemitism is bad for business. Now how about Henry Ford? 2022-11-14T05:00:00Z “It is almost impossible,” Hickman writes, “to imagine the courage” it took to do this, especially as an illiterate woman born without so much as a surname. Review: How the West was won — and lost — by women: A new history revises the record 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z “He’s not qualified on what basis? In California, you can be illiterate and be an administrator,” the judge said. Judge denies Anne Heche's ex-boyfriend control of estate as court battle continues 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z He told her that would be hard because he was illiterate and had no legitimate way to support his son. Perspective | The unseen, creative way D.C. is fighting gun violence 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z The vast majority of Kligman’s experiments were performed on Black men, many of whom were awaiting trial and trying to save money for bail, and many of whom were illiterate, the city said. Philadelphia apologizes for experiments on Black inmates 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Ms. Ech-Channa watched as a fellow social worker produced a document on which the mother, who was illiterate, impressed her thumbprint, signing away her child. Aicha Ech-Channa, ‘Moroccan Mother Teresa,’ dies at 81 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z “The Supreme Court returned the issue to the states where abortion was governed prior to the constitutionally illiterate decision in Roe,” Hice said. Republicans struggle for consensus on next steps concerning abortion 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z It will be tough, requiring him to go door-to-door to register elderly people deep in the countryside, some of whom are illiterate or don’t have cellphones. Xinjiang Kazakh plans political party to counter China’s Xi 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Bonjean described Kelly as a flawed genius who has been functional illiterate since childhood and was ill-equipped to navigate his celebrity and expanding wealth. Day 2 of jury deliberations at R. Kelly’s child porn trial 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z "The left wing liberals need as many illiterates as they can get to vote in order to keep them in power." The fight against an age-old effort to block Americans from voting 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Along with the oil, the checks began flowing, as if by magic, to the Rectors, who, illiterate and barely scraping by, knew little about managing money. ‘World’s Richest Negro Girl’ inspired media ridicule, fascination, alarm 2022-09-03T04:00:00Z He said the lack of free movement under the current "hard Brexit" deal had caused staffing challenges in the UK economy, including in airports, and accused Boris Johnson's government of being "economically illiterate". Ryanair will grow even faster in recession, boss says 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z Similarly, people who speak English with the accent of another language may be incorrectly assumed to be illiterate. Writing Guide 2021-12-21T00:00:00Z The mostly illiterate serfs were thus dependent on those literate priests to read and interpret the Bible, the word of God, for them. U.S. History 2014-12-30T00:00:00Z The law does include exceptions for people helping "illiterate" voters, but experts say its limit on assistance could still discourage those voters from requesting help. The fight against an age-old effort to block Americans from voting 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z She's moved to tears as an illiterate Tasmanian man struggles to read a paragraph for the first time, citing that almost 50% of Tasmanian adults are functionally illiterate. Miriam Margolyes: 'I now look up to Australian bogans' 2022-08-13T04:00:00Z Losing their divinity when they get their first period, many enter adulthood illiterate and struggle to find a life beyond the throne. Ex-Goddess Works to Reform 700-Year Tradition. Her M.B.A. Helps. 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z After that, people who can afford to pay for private education will get it, but everyone else will be left basically illiterate. Fox News' Laura Ingraham escalates the GOP's war on learning 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z The panoramic tapestry of violence is meticulously drawn, but the book quickly zooms in on an illiterate lamb herder, Jude, and his 13-year-old son, Marek. Review | In Ottessa Moshfegh’s ‘Lapvona,’ alienation turns to violence 2022-06-25T04:00:00Z He even called George Washington a “muttonhead” and “too illiterate, unlearned, unread, for his station and reputation.” A history of presidential rages and tantrums, from Adams to Trump 2022-07-01T04:00:00Z She had been led to believe that the case against Ali Kololo - an illiterate woodcutter and honey gatherer - was compelling. Met officer ‘left out evidence’ in UK holidaymaker murder investigation 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z “It’s really hard being illiterate in this world.” Ex-Goddess Works to Reform 700-Year Tradition. Her M.B.A. Helps. 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z They don't want their own kids to grow up illiterate and unable to get decent jobs because of it. Fox News' Laura Ingraham escalates the GOP's war on learning 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z The prime minister, who De Witte says had been described as an illiterate thief in the Belgian press, was seen as having humiliated the king and other Belgian officials. Patrice Lumumba: Why a tooth is all that remains of the Congolese hero 2022-06-19T04:00:00Z An enthusiastic chess and bridge player, Scott encountered inmates who could beat him at both but were illiterate. Troubled past charts unlikely rise to power for Virginia Democrat 2022-06-12T04:00:00Z Jonathan Elkind, a fellow and senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy, described the theory that U.S. gas prices are high due to reliance on foreign oil imports as “economically illiterate.” NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn’t happen this week 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z "The government has published newspaper advisories against such consumption in the past, but the message does not reach the families as most of them are illiterate." Assam: The wild mushrooms killing India tea garden workers 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z There's no planet where "liberty" is expanded by forcing women to give birth or keeping children illiterate. Life after Roe: Republicans are already targeting the right to a public education 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z A school dropout as a teen, he said he “was virtually illiterate and couldn’t discern good from bad.” Moroccan prison program aims to de-radicalize IS veterans 2022-04-30T04:00:00Z "We don't know what happened exactly, but people here are illiterate," Kharpade adds. Extreme Covid vaccine hesitancy is still alive in rural India 2022-04-28T04:00:00Z It would be hard to believe, until you remember that these are the same people who practically worship Donald Trump, an illiterate bully with absolutely no redeeming qualities. What's the matter with SEL? Successful, well-adjusted adults are the GOP's kryptonite 2022-04-25T04:00:00Z Turns out the secret to Trump's success was not all that mysterious and staring us right in the face, 240 illiterate letters at a time: The man is a relentless Twitter troll. Libs of TikTok: The Twitter troll who took Trump's place 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z During a tour of the district’s schools he stopped by a fourth grade classroom, where a girl confessed to him and the rest of her class that she was illiterate. Fed up with lackluster reading scores, Wenatchee schools turned to science 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z “It’s not just elderly folks; it’s not just technically illiterate folks,” said Jan Santiago, a spokesman for the crypto-scam victim group Global Anti-Scam Organization that has helped popularize the term “pig-butchering.“ An ex-cop fell for Alice. Then he fell for her $66 million crypto scam. 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z Changing tactics in the summer of 1835, the society mailed bundles of abolitionist literature to leading slaveholders throughout the South, with gory illustrations seemingly designed to inflame illiterate bondsmen. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z Daniel Kawczynski claimed that "British left-wing parties" were making "illiterate and immoral" calls for the UK to take in more people. Daniel Kawczynski: Tory association condemns MP's tweet 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z A senior Conservative MP has accused a party colleague of writing "utterly risible, illiterate, immoral and offensive bile" on Ukrainian refugees. Ukraine war: Tory MPs row over 'immoral' refugees tweet 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z Since Gad’s tweet began attracting attention, Coleman said, he’s seen social media posts calling himself, Lipscomb and Machado “illiterate, or uneducated — or we shouldn’t be registered voters in America.” An excruciating ‘Wheel of Fortune’ clip epitomizes our new era of viral game-show moments 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z The son of rural, illiterate parents, he educated himself. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “He didn’t think anybody was too poor or too illiterate to be entitled to receive healthcare.” Dr. Paul Farmer, global healthcare pioneer who provided aid to millions, dies 2022-02-22T05:00:00Z “He didn’t think anybody was too poor or too illiterate to be entitled to receive health care.” Dr. Paul Farmer, Partners in Health co-founder, dies at 62 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z Daniel Kawczynski claimed on Twitter that "British left-wing parties" were making "illiterate and immoral" calls for the UK to take in more people. Ukraine war: Tory MPs row over 'immoral' refugees tweet 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z In our collective eagerness to feel smarter than the illiterate D students of the authoritarian right, it's all too easy for progressives to overlook their strategic cunning. Marjorie Taylor Greene's "Gazpacho police" is very dumb — but we underestimate her at our peril 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z As illiterate peasants walked past the 176 windows, they could view those stories. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Born to poor, illiterate parents, he was rejected by the community. Srikanth Bolla: The blind CEO’s £48m company which nearly didn’t happen 2022-01-23T05:00:00Z Pahlawan’s days had once been full: teaching illiterate women in the mornings and studying in the afternoons. Portraits of fear and loss The evidence indicated LumHo used his illiterate father-in-law as a conduit for bribes, getting him a job as Wilson’s secretarial assistant. Former Defense, Justice employee sentenced to more than 7 years for fraud 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z “When he answered an ad for actors, as an illiterate young man, the theatre owner sneered: ‘Go be a dishwasher.’ Hollywood mourns the loss of Sidney Poitier: 'This is a big one' 2022-01-07T05:00:00Z Some priests were nearly illiterate and could barely read their prayers. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z During the Obama years it became a mantra among the bigots and the illiterate. I was there for the day that poisoned America — and I think we can still recover 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z They pass out audio Bibles that look like little transistor radios so that illiterate farmers can surreptitiously listen to the scripture as they plow their fields. Arrests, Beatings and Secret Prayers: Inside the Persecution of India’s Christians 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z “He sold us out. He wants us all to be just like his state, West Virginia. Poor, illiterate and strung out.” Bette Midler walks back W.Va. remarks amid anti-Manchin rant 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Recently, Midler found herself apologizing for her "outburst" on the social media app for calling people in West Virginia "poor" and "illiterate." Bette Midler's most controversial tweets over the past year 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z The nomadic Seljuks had arrived in Southwest Asia basically illiterate. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z "He sold us out. He wants us all to be just like his state, West Virginia. Poor, illiterate and strung out." Bette Midler apologizes for Twitter 'outburst' calling West Virginia 'poor, illiterate': 'I'm just seeing red' 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z “But why is it that only the most illiterate and poor convert? Can you tell me that someone who cannot even write the ‘J’ of Jesus begins to believe in it? Arrests, Beatings and Secret Prayers: Inside the Persecution of India’s Christians 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z Bette Midler is sorry she insulted you, West Virginia, by characterizing the state’s entire population as “poor, illiterate and strung out.” Bette Midler walks back W.Va. remarks amid anti-Manchin rant 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z An Afghanistan, he had only attended secondary school, his wife is illiterate, but his two daughters and two sons attended school in Nangarhar. Afghanistan to Wisconsin: Refugees dream of home 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z He paired students of all ages with after school tutors, yet he said his efforts feel like a drop in the bucket when neighborhood public schools pump out illiterate graduates year after year. Chicago rooftop revelations: Broken education system is perpetuating Chicago violence, pastor says 2021-12-15T05:00:00Z “They don’t give us a pension. We don’t have a job. We can’t go out on the street,” said Charles, who grew up working in sugarcane fields and is illiterate. Dominican Republic expels, mistreats Haitians, activists say 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z The child of illiterate agricultural workers, Mr. da Silva, who grew up in a small shack with no electricity or plumbing, saw an opportunity to transform families like his by investing heavily in job-creating industries. Brazil’s President Lula Is Staging a Comeback. Can He Bring the Country Along? 2021-11-27T05:00:00Z With Malheiros returning as protagonist, “7 Prisoners” chronicles the nightmare of a group of young men from the countryside, some of them illiterate, deceived into working as forced labor at a scrap metal junkyard. Netflix drama '7 Prisoners' looks at enslavement in Brazil. Its director hopes for global action 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z As a result, little is known about individual Egyptian artists and their methods, despite the key role paintings and reliefs played at a time when most people were illiterate. Female pharaoh’s tomb reveals how Egypt’s ‘ancient masters’ carved their art 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z He could also be found reading letters for his illiterate white neighbors as he awaited the next brood of cicada. Long Overlooked, Benjamin Banneker Is Recognized for Work on Cicadas and against Slavery 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z Even parents in the slum - who are mostly illiterate - want their children to start working as soon as possible, he said. A journey from slum to Sydney, upended by the pandemic 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z He was the first Black deputy U.S. marshal west of the Mississippi and despite being illiterate, managed to memorize the warrants for every suspect he sought to apprehend. These are the real-life figures that inspired Netflix's 'The Harder They Fall' 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z According to the Ministry of Education in 2019, more than a third of over 15 year olds were illiterate. The woman defying the Taliban on girls' education 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z There are scores of students who are functionally illiterate as well as scientifically and mathematically illiterate, and have no idea how government works or what their responsibilities in a democracy are. Dumbass nation: Our biggest national security problem is America's "vast and militant ignorance" 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Many did not apply for citizenship in the 1960s because they were illiterate or could not produce documents, or did not know how important citizenship would become. Kuwait's stateless bedoun in limbo as hundreds lose bank accounts 2021-10-14T04:00:00Z It’s even harder to find an authentic signature by Jackson because the baseball legend grew up on a farm in South Carolina and was illiterate, meaning he didn’t sign many autographs. A ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson photo sold for $1.47 million. Here’s why it was so valuable. 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z “The Taliban are obsessed with controlling us. They are mostly illiterate, so they are afraid of educated women, and they are using sharia law selectively to justify their actions,” said Manija, a former sociology teacher. Harsh public justice and private despair reign in Taliban-ruled Herat 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z “These numbers suggest that an entire generation faces the real risk of remaining illiterate,” she said. Millions of Indian kids have been out of school for 18 months. The break threatens decades of progress. 2021-10-02T04:00:00Z It’s written as a letter from Vuong to his illiterate mother, and he unpacks masculinity, violence and the healing that comes with processing trauma in the book. 6 books written by authors of color that make me feel seen 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z In older stories of the South, Black characters are one-dimensional folk, often illiterate, entirely reliant on white largesse or mercy. Review: Percival Everett rewrites the Southern racial narrative 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z "She was virtually unknown to me - I was illiterate regarding issues to do with pop music," Mr Graham told BBC News NI's Good Morning Ulster programme. Rihanna's NI video for We Found Love remembered 10 years on 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z Abdul Ghafour, 68, a white-bearded scribe at a sidewalk table who records legal petitions for illiterate people, was using a new form with the Islamic Emirate seal printed at the top. Harsh public justice and private despair reign in Taliban-ruled Herat 2021-10-06T04:00:00Z I’m completely computer illiterate and now I’m in trouble. How to transfer emails from an old account and where to find free media players 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z "This reminds everyone of what the Taliban did in the 90s. We ended up with a generation of illiterate and non-educated women," she said. Afghanistan: Girls excluded as Afghan secondary schools reopen 2021-09-18T04:00:00Z Several of the men were illiterate and could not read their own confessions, and none had a lawyer present when they signed. Northam grants posthumous pardons to the Martinsville Seven, Black men executed in 1951 for rape 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z "He was educated, could speak French, talked softly and was charming. Other commanders came across as rough, illiterate and gung-ho." Afghanistan: The 'undefeated' valley an hour from Kabul 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z Three months later, in a news briefing at the Pentagon, Caldwell said the Afghan soldiers and police previously had been in terrible shape: poorly led, uninspired and more than 90 percent of them illiterate. Afghan security forces’ wholesale collapse was years in the making 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z It’s estimated that at least 90% of the emancipated people were illiterate, Davis said, largely because it had been illegal to teach slaves to read and write. How a forgotten Black activist fueled a California city's racial reckoning 2021-07-30T04:00:00Z Born in a tiny village in one of Peru's poorest areas, Pedro Castillo grew up helping his illiterate parents with farm work. Pedro Castillo: The primary school teacher who became Peru's president 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z The son of illiterate peasants led a teachers’ strike in 2017. Leftist political novice to be sworn in as Peru’s president 2021-07-28T04:00:00Z Well into the digital age, Dr. Theoharis banged away at an old typewriter and abstained from email, calling himself “technologically illiterate” in an interview with Milwaukee Magazine. Athan Theoharis, historian who exposed FBI misconduct, dies at 84 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z Such reckless verbiage is, of course, not just grossly disproportionate and non-analogous to the real thing, it’s historically illiterate. Opinion | Tossing around ‘Nazi’ and ‘fascist’ as insults is reckless and historically illiterate 2021-07-11T04:00:00Z When the judge sentenced him for voluntary manslaughter, he called Jackson a “functional illiterate” and used the case to verbally lambaste the image of college sports performers as “student” athletes. Appreciation: In the UCLA football galaxy, Terry Donahue was as good (and good looking) as it gets 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z The poem, posted on May 6 on a small social media site Wang founded, criticises the emperor of the Qin dynasty, who burnt books to suppress intellectual dissidents only to be overthrown by illiterates. China tells Meituan billionaire to lie low after poem furore -Bloomberg 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z The son of illiterate peasants entered politics by leading a teachers’ strike. Daughter of imprisoned ex-president leads Peru’s election 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z "We are illiterate, we are poor, although we are always working," Medina, the mother, said. Left behind in modern Peru, rural poor find a voice ahead of election 2021-06-05T04:00:00Z His grandmother was illiterate and his formal education ended after the fifth grade. ‘We Always Rise.’ A Black-Owned Bookstore Navigates the Pandemic 2021-05-22T04:00:00Z When she left school after the fourth grade, she was functionally illiterate. Michele Pinczuk, writer, filmmaker and U-Md. hip-hop DJ, dies at 27 2021-05-15T04:00:00Z “I prefer them to remain illiterate but alive,” she said. Afghan girls torn between fears and ambitions after school attack 2021-05-11T04:00:00Z In giving the Republican response to President Biden’s address to Congress, the South Carolina Republican repeated his stump-speech accounts about his grandfather being illiterate and having to drop out of school and share-crop. Tim Scott calls out Washington Post over fact-check: ‘A different kind of intolerance’ 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z Nelson tweeted that Johnson’s “scientifically illiterate beliefs are deadly and will only prolong the Covid crisis. Time for a new Senator.” Wisconsin Sen. Johnson questions need for vaccinations 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z Castillo is the son of illiterate peasants, the third of nine children. Students’ struggles pushed Peru teacher to run for president 2021-04-18T04:00:00Z “Dred and Harriet Scott were kept illiterate. Dred Scott could not sign his own name. But they understood the promise of the U.S. Constitution better than men like Taney and Grier.” New college tour highlights slavery’s shadow 2021-04-17T04:00:00Z “The fact that the missed call demanded only basic numeric literacy made them accessible to the third of India’s population that was illiterate,” Bhattarai explains. Go read this feature on how India’s digital revolution started with missed calls 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z As a whole, government-run facilities also do not serve poor, illiterate patients very well. The City Losing Its Children to H.I.V. 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z He was a biblical illiterate, but they didn’t notice. Let down by the church 2021-04-04T04:00:00Z Born in the remote Afghan province of Badakhshan, the 19th of her father’s 23 children, she was put outside to die because she was female, but was rescued by her strong, illiterate mother. There will be no peace in Afghanistan unless women’s rights are protected 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z She said she did not want her children to be illiterate, so she saw that all her family’s children went to school. Sarah Obama, Kenyan matriarch of Obama family, dies 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z She said she didn’t want her children to be illiterate, so she saw that all her family’s children went to school. Obama family matriarch has died in a Kenyan hospital at 99 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z She said she didn’t want her children to be illiterate, so she saw that all her family’s children went to school. Obama family matriarch has died in a Kenyan hospital at 99 2021-03-29T04:00:00Z He does not know what year he was born – there was little formal record-keeping and many people were illiterate – but reckons he is about 40. Newsmaker: A Myanmar doctor’s journey from a remote village to leading a revolution 2021-03-19T04:00:00Z Terms on the "oppression/resistance" side include "too young, too old," "rural, remote," LGBTQ, "female" and "unqualified, illiterate." LA prep school graphic teaching students 'fat, short, unattractive' people are oppressed 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z The man was also illiterate but had done so much to improve his life that he earned a position on the staff of Project H.O.O.D. Reporter's Notebook: Black Lives Matter's disconnect with America's struggling neighborhoods 2021-03-09T05:00:00Z Providing a broad portrait of the lives, art, law, economics, history and customs of what was a largely illiterate society, the archive is being fully digitized and cataloged online. Vanishing in the Desert, Traditional Bedouin Culture Lives Online 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z “At one time, we were all illiterate to the subject. They were saying that kids couldn’t get it. I was hearing that not too long before Kimora passed.” The youngest victims of a national calamity, and the people they left behind I am writing on behalf of my illiterate brethren in the primate family Hominidae. Feedback: Hey, CBS — dig out Cicely Tyson's groundbreaking first TV series and let us watch 2021-02-06T05:00:00Z For multiple nights this week, Carlson hosted unhinged segments full of maximum umbrage, screeching that Biden is "borderline illiterate," dismissing her career as a high school and community college English teacher. A return to fake right-wing outrage: Without Trump, Republicans run back to sexist resentments 2020-12-18T05:00:00Z Some of the accused were still intoxicated when they were arrested; others were illiterate and could not read the confessions they signed. Virginia governor asked to grant posthumous pardons to seven Black men executed for 1949 rape 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z When the then-40-year-old hipster with the thick Italian accent first entered prison, he was illiterate, but taught himself how to read and write. Man who was serving 90-year sentence for marijuana released 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z He was an illiterate drug addict and low-level criminal, reporters learned. A murder in Veracruz: Slain journalist’s story a portrait of a violent, corrupt era in Mexico 2020-12-06T05:00:00Z The singer and actress hailed from the tiny Spanish municipality of Adra and was illiterate until adulthood. How the trans icon Spain 'didn't want to see' inspired a hit TV show 2020-11-19T05:00:00Z In contrast to their parents, who are mostly illiterate, the majority of Resim children were in school before lockdown, he says. The battle to bring Kenya's warrior children back to school – a photo essay 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z During one performance, a biker raised in Mexico City pulled up to say that it reminded him of outdoor typists in the parks, when he was growing up, who were scriveners to the illiterate. Why This Professor Is Writing Letters for People Feeling Blue 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z When parties began to color-code ballots, some used the opposition’s chosen color to fool illiterates. Opinion | How to Steal an Election 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z The Democrats also created ballots that carried pictures of famous Republican Abraham Lincoln to try to trick illiterate voters into choosing Tilden. 'Dueling' electors, 'hanging chads': a history of contested U.S. elections 2020-10-23T04:00:00Z Near the end of his all-pro career, Manley testified before a Senate panel on education that he had been illiterate through high school and college. At Jack Yates High School, sports — not study — was seen as the ticket out 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z Furthermore, while the colobus and the other non-human primates are far more sophisticated than most people dare to imagine, they are basically illiterate. What I learned about human politics from studying colubus monkeys 2020-10-04T04:00:00Z The era of illiterate African princes and lazy kings, it is over.’” The Short Tenure and Abrupt Ouster of Banking’s Sole Black C.E.O. 2020-10-03T04:00:00Z Evans spent years at the Northern Echo campaigning for a pardon for Timothy Evans, a young illiterate man hanged for a murder he never committed. Harold Evans taught us what journalism at its best can achieve | Alan Rusbridger 2020-09-24T04:00:00Z “He’s functionally illiterate in English,” Mr. Todd, a federal public defender, told the court. ‘Not a big deal’: Noncitizens who voted illegally in 2016 still on voter rolls 2020-09-20T04:00:00Z But he's too brittle, too paranoid, too toxic, too illiterate to do that. We just passed 6 million cases, and it didn't have to be like this — if we'd had a leader 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z Earlier this year, Lemon laughed hysterically as two of his guests mocked Trump voters as illiterate "credulous rubes." CNN's Don Lemon claims Trump voters must have 'cognitive dissonance' to support such a 'bad person' 2020-08-28T04:00:00Z Recalling his illiterate grandfather, who was forced to leave school in third grade to pick cotton, and his own rise to the Senate as an iconic spokesman for conservative principles, Scott said: Opinion | Nikki Haley and Tim Scott give us hope for the Republican Party 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z Many of its 4,500 inhabitants are illiterate. The coronavirus has hammered Brazil. But somehow, Bolsonaro is getting more popular. 2020-08-24T04:00:00Z Many signed the land deeds with a mark because they were illiterate. Freed slaves founded this town. Their descendants fear postal cuts threaten voting rights 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Boochani was the second of five children born to illiterate Kurdish farmers. Behrouz Boochani Just Wants to Be Free 2020-08-04T04:00:00Z Although illiterate and subject to both racial and gender discrimination, Mason amassed a tremendous fortune. Op-Ed: A monument to California's Black history may soon be destroyed 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z Just eight months before, she was basically poker illiterate. Review | A psychologist finds herself at the poker table 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z If you support America’s founding and our heroes throughout our history you’re now “glorifying white supremacy”? This is insane, historically illiterate nonsense. Trump ‘glorifying white supremacy’ with July 4 fireworks at Mount Rushmore, Democrats say 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z Such work is not only scientifically illiterate, says the Coalition for Critical Technology, but perpetuates a cycle of prejudice against Black people and people of color. AI experts say research into algorithms that claim to predict criminality must end 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z “If the government lifts restrictions, millions of illiterate Indians will pour into the streets and superspread the disease,” a friend said. Opinion | The Rich Love India’s Lockdown. For the Poor It’s Another Story. 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z His mother, who was illiterate, was a Tunisian native who raised 13 children. Albert Memmi, Tunisian-born author of searching books about identity, dies at 99 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z But most of the sweepers are illiterate and unorganized, she said, making it easy for the authorities to pressure them to accept the jobs as their only means of income. Sewer Cleaners Wanted in Pakistan: Only Christians Need Apply. 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z This runs counter to much reporting, which is perhaps too scientifically illiterate to perceive the difference. The pandemic has exposed the threat of a biowarfare arms race 2020-04-24T04:00:00Z Most journalists, adhering to an institutional decorum that might have been appropriate during the Carter administration, ask Trump a question and then dutifully take notes while he blusters through an illiterate response. Trump is insane: And it's time for leading Democrats to say that out loud 2020-04-18T04:00:00Z They are “intellectual dwarfs” and “science illiterates,” he says, who spent weeks downplaying the threat from the coronavirus epidemic and accusing President Trump’s opponents of exaggerating it to hurt him politically. Why Michael Savage Is Blasting Hannity and the Right-Wing Media on the Virus 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z “I would call myself `computer illiterate,’” Jones said in an affidavit. Nevada town fights plan to fix century-old canal amid COVID 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z But he, like the rest of the sweepers, is a poor and illiterate Christian, and no other jobs are open to him, he lamented. Sewer Cleaners Wanted in Pakistan: Only Christians Need Apply. 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Aid workers and advocates say unscrupulous lenders often fail to explain the terms and risks of the loans to borrowers, who are often financially illiterate and may be desperately poor. Microloans, Seen as Salvation for Poor Women, Trap Many in Debt 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z At the time, 87% were illiterate and signed using their fingerprints. The village still suffering from Peru mercury spill fallout – after 20 years 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z Chaiklin: I am so illiterate in the social media world that it’s been a very funny reprieve. Imprisoned 'Tiger King' star Joe Exotic is 'over the moon' to be famous, directors say 2020-03-26T04:00:00Z This is a stunning turnaround in a country beset by income inequality and poor literacy rates: half of state-educated students are still illiterate by the third grade. 'People think it's magic': how one of Brazil's poorest cities gets its best school results 2020-03-25T04:00:00Z Another patient, an illiterate woman named Mamitu Gashe, was treated at the hospital and stayed on to learn how to perform fistula repairs. Catherine Hamlin, OB/GYN who healed injured and ostracized mothers, dies at 96 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z The "CNN Tonight" anchor was widely criticized in January for his over-the-top laughter in response to his panelists ridiculing Trump supporters as illiterate "credulous rubes." CNN's Don Lemon says 'it's not my intention to say bad things' about Trump while trashing Trump 2020-03-23T04:00:00Z Mr. Ahmad estimated that about 40 percent of his students are illiterate. For Children Fleeing War, a Tent Becomes a School 2020-03-22T04:00:00Z The former strategist, an outspoken critic of President Trump, recently went viral during a CNN appearance with Don Lemon where they mocked Trump supporters as illiterate "credulous rubes." Frequent CNN guest Rick Wilson mocks Melania Trump to '#BeInfected' with coronavirus 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z Fourteen percent of our adult population is functionally illiterate. Billionaire Confessional: David Rubenstein on Wealth and Privilege 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z It notes over 70% of lawmakers and parliamentarians and managers are men and nearly 500,000 women and girls over the age of 15 are illiterate. UN chief: Gender inequality biggest human rights challenge 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z She does not speak either of Canada’s official languages, English or French, and is largely illiterate. 'Finally free': Asia Bibi, Pakistani accused of blasphemy, publishes book 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z ‘There were a lot of folks in Cuba at that point who were illiterate. He formed the literacy brigade,’ Sanders said. Bernie in the barrel for South Carolina debate 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z She recalled children 12 or older being illiterate and unable to do basic math. Local group helps Haitian orphans for decade 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z Meanwhile, Acosta bested his colleague, CNN anchor Don Lemon, who received attention this week after his panel mocked Trump supporters as illiterate "credulous boomer rubes." CNN's Brian Stelter, Jim Acosta join MSNBC's Rachel Maddow, Jennifer Rubin in 'Liberal Hack Tournament' Final Four 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z One angry letter writer calls himself offended by awards shows that feature “inane, uninformed, uneducated, narcissistic opinions” of these historically illiterate, pampered, overpaid so-called celebrities. Calendar Feedback Sun., Feb. 2, 2020 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z During the segment, Mr. Wilson began to mock and dismiss President Trump and his supporters as illiterate “credulous boomer rubes,” who were too dumb to understand maps or much of anything else. CNN outdoes itself with arrogant and smug ridicule of Trump supporters 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z There was almost no Western medicine available in the 1960s, and most of the population was illiterate; as many as half of all babies and a third of mothers died in childbirth. Mohammed bin Zayed’s Dark Vision of the Middle East’s Future 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z “I don’t want to be disrespectful, but it’s economically illiterate,” she said. Bernie Sanders' economic adviser says Australia's bushfires are a climate change 'wake-up call' 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z Her mother was illiterate, and the paperwork was daunting and expensive. For Her Children, Seeking the Education She Didn’t Have 2019-12-23T05:00:00Z “You see this illiterate?” he snapped when a French speaker from Ivory Coast dropped by and started complaining about the living conditions without first greeting the Anglophones. For African Migrants, Hope and a Home in a Vacant French School 2019-12-14T05:00:00Z His mother is illiterate, and his father, who worked in construction, has a primary-school education. Hong Kong’s Protest Movement and the Fight for the City’s Soul 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z But, in a country where hundreds of millions of people are illiterate or nearly so, the big idea got through. Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z If the parent is illiterate, he or she is advised to turn the pages and tell a story using the pictures. Opinion | Forget the Scarf. These Gifts Change Lives. 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z On top of this roughy half of the population are illiterate. 'Bless this referendum': Bougainville votes and prays for independence 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Many chiefs are illiterate, however, so they had to be assigned an assistant. First malaria vaccine rolled out in Africa—despite limited efficacy and nagging safety concerns 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z When she was an infant, her father died of cancer, leaving her mother, who was illiterate, to support six children by growing and selling papaya, sal seeds to make flour and home-brewed liquor. ‘My Loneliness Keeps Me Going’: Fighting for Equality in India 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z “People in villages may be illiterate, but they are not stupid. They want what’s good for themselves and their children,” the medical journal the Lancet quoted Ms. Gebre as saying. Bogaletch Gebre, defender of Ethiopian women against female genital mutilation, dies 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z Of that group, 237 were illiterate, which was determined by asking the participants point-blank, “Did you ever learn to read or write?”—followed by reading tests administered to a subsample. Literacy Might Shield the Brain from Dementia 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z A spinster schoolteacher tries to cultivate a gifted student among illiterate miners in 1890s Wales. Movies on TV this week: Sunday, Oct. 27, 2019 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z All support the $10tn Green New Deal, an economically, scientifically, and numerically illiterate programme, or even more radical plans. The 2020 US election hinges on the economy – it's time to start talking about it 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Historically illiterate, morally obtuse, and willfully misleading, the speech portrays religious people in the United States as beset by a hostile band of “secularists.” William Barr’s Wild Misreading of the First Amendment 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z “Many think that Afghans are unable to speak Farsi with the Iranian accent or are illiterate,” Jafari told The Associated Press on a recent day at the café. Afghan refugee’s ‘Dream’ coffee shop in Iran becomes reality 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z But what power, she asked, does an illiterate farmer like her have in the face of China’s might? ‘Our River Was Like a God’: How Dams and China’s Might Imperil the Mekong 2019-10-12T04:00:00Z In theocratic Gilead, women are uneducated, illiterate and serve to procreate. Atwood’s ‘The Testaments’ takes readers on wild ride 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z “As many as half remained illiterate or semi-illiterate in both Vietnamese and English and never became U.S. citizens. The mainstream Vietnamese-American population looked down on them.” For some children born abroad, U.S. citizenship has never been a guarantee 2019-09-08T04:00:00Z |
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