Cordray quoted English poet Thomas Gray and was clearly involved and engaged throughout the day with those in attendance.

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The title was held by the late historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford, and the 18th Century poet Thomas Gray, who was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge.

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The books by the Better-Nevers are more moving than those by the Never-Betters for the same reason that Thomas Gray was at his best in that graveyard: loss is always the great poetic subject.

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Meanwhile, American directors like George Clooney, James Gray, Paul Thomas Anderson are making intense, complicated films that are also a pleasure to watch.

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Jackson, Gray, Jordan and Thomas have one other thing in common: All are African-Americans.

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