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• Adeline Virginia Stephen Woolf (noun)
  1. 1882-1941 english author whose work used such techniques as stream of consciousness and the interior monologue; prominent member of the Bloomsbury Group
• Foster, Stephen
  1. (1826-64) a US songwriter who wrote many popular songs, such as Oh Susanna, Camptown Races, and Old Folks at Home, which were often about life in the SOUTH of the US
• Hawking, Stephen
  1. (1942- ) a British scientist who has developed important new ideas about RELATIVITY and BLACK HOLE s . He has continued working even though he suffers from a serious disease of the NERVOUS SYSTEM, and he uses a special computer system in order to talk. He wrote an extremely popular book called A Brief History of Time (1988), in which he explains his ideas about how the universe and time began and how they have developed.
• Laurence Stephen Lowry (noun)
  1. 1887-1976 english painter
• Lawrence, Stephen
  1. (1974-1993) a young black man who was murdered in Eltham, south London, in 1993 by a group of young white men. Five men were ARREST ed,, but the Crown Prosecution Service decided there was not enough EVIDENCE to bring them to TRIAL . In 1996 Stephen's parents brought a private PROSECUTION for murder against the five men, but they were found not guilty. Mr and Mrs Lawrence also complained that the police had not carried out a proper INVESTIGATION into the murder because Stephen was black. An INQUIRY was held and in 1999 its CHAIRMAN Sir William Macpherson criticized the police in his report. He said there was institutional racism in the Metropolitan Police Force.
• Sir Leslie Stephen (noun)
  1. 1832-1904 english writer
• Sir Stephen Harold Spender (noun)
  1. 1909-1995 english poet and critic
• Sondheim, Stephen
  1. (1930- ) a US songwriter and COMPOSER famous for the clever and amusing words he uses in his songs. He wrote the words for the musical show WEST SIDE STORY (1957), and the words and music for many other successful musical shows, including A Little Light Music (1973).
• Spender, Sir Stephen
  1. (1909-95) a British poet and CRITIC whose books of poetry include The Still Centre and The Generous Days
• Stephen Arnold Douglas (noun)
  1. 1813-1861 united States politician who proposed that individual territories be allowed to decide whether they would have slavery; he engaged in a famous series of debates with Abraham Lincoln
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