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2004年12月29日

[NYT] Susan Sontag, Social Critic With Verve, Dies at 71

Photo credit/copyright: Annie Leibovitz, courtesy of the artist

By MARGALIT FOX
Published: December 28, 2004

Susan Sontag, the novelist, essayist and critic whose impassioned advocacy of the avant-garde and equally impassioned political pronouncements made her one of the most lionized presences - and one of the most polarizing - in 20th-century letters, died yesterday morning in Manhattan. She was 71 and lived in Manhattan. ...繼續閱讀

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[WP] Cultural Author, Activist Was a Fearless Thinker

Susan Sontag: 1933.1.16-2004.12.28
Susan Sontag characterized her motivations simply: to "know everything," starting with literature.

By Adam Bernstein Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, December 29, 2004; Page A01

Susan Sontag, 71, the American intellectual who engaged and enraged equally with her insights into high and low culture, died yesterday at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. She had leukemia. ...繼續閱讀

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2004年12月20日

Voice of an Angel: Renata Tebaldi

圖片：女高音提芭蒂，1955 年於紐約大都會歌劇院。

被譽為二戰後最傑出歌劇天后之一，指揮家托斯卡尼尼稱讚她擁有「天使一般的聲音」的義大利戲劇女高音提芭蒂，纏綿病榻多年之後，19日在聖馬利諾的家中逝世，享年82歲。

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2004年10月9日

[BBC] Deconstruction icon Derrida dies

Jacques Derrida, one of France's most famous philosophers, has died at the age of 74.

Derrida, who suffered from cancer, died in a Paris hospital on Friday night.

The Algerian-born philosopher is best known for his "deconstruction theory" - unpicking the way text is put together in order to reveal its hidden meanings.

Fellow academics have charged that Derrida's writings are "absurd", but his mark on modern thinking is undisputed, correspondents say.

In his long career, he taught at the Sorbonne and at several American universities. ...繼續閱讀

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