Hints and tips:
...To celebrate, we went to The John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts to see a Tchaikovsky production by Ballet West....
...Both Tony Blair and John F Kennedy won power at the age of 43: Blair talked up a “young country”; JFK was the symbol of an optimistic future after two terms of Eisenhower, by then 70....
...Carol F Kessler’s Daring to Dream: Utopian Fiction by United States Women Before 1950 is a good reference point, as is Rebecca M Marrall’s Women of Color in Speculative Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography...
...Also in the FT do read Margaret Heffernan on why “for young people, the job search has never been so miserable”....
.../ From Rosario A Iaconis, Mineola, NY, US Americans should be more phlegmatic about Trump / From Margaret McGirr, Greenwich, CT, US...
...The period covered includes the Cuban missile crisis, the Profumo affair, the assassination of John F Kennedy, the fall of Harold Macmillan and the brief premiership of Alec Douglas-Home before the election...
...Milei is an anglophile — a fan of Margaret Thatcher and Winston Churchill, and was a singer in a Rolling Stones tribute band in his teens....
...We’ve all seen those ‘farewell’ emails that go viral with ‘F**K YOU BOSS’ spelled out from the first letter of each sentence....
...Margaret Pinder Beverley, Yorkshire HU17 Letter in response to this letter: No link between board diversity and profitability / From Laura F Spira, Emeritus Professor of Corporate Governance, Oxford Brookes...
...Margaret Pinder writes (Letters, June 25/26) that “there is compelling evidence that diversity in the boardroom brings benefits on the balance sheet”. Sadly, there isn’t....
...How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Them by Barbara F Walter, Viking £18.99 Barbara F Walter, a professor at the University of California, draws on examples such as Yugoslavia, Syria, Libya and Myanmar...
...Similarly, photographs of the artist David Wojnarowicz wearing a leather jacket in 1988 with the legend “IF I DIE OF AIDS — FORGET BURIAL — JUST DROP MY BODY ON THE STEPS OF THE F.D.A.” have passed from...
...As for Attlee, the one postwar UK premier who can look Margaret Thatcher in the eye, name one vivid thing he said....
...Making their house debut are History of the Present, which marks the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement; Least Like the Other, a portrait of Rosemary Kennedy, the younger sister of John F Kennedy...
...The issue at stake is an obscure so-called “Schedule F” provision in American law....
...How Civil Wars Start: And How to Stop Themby Barbara F Walter, Viking £18.99/Crown $27 The amount of interest that this book has aroused in the US is a disturbing testament to current levels of concern...
...Look at Margaret Thatcher’s deceptively mumsy look: the pussy-bow blouses and structured handbags that softened her image and belied her austerity policies....
...Margaret Thatcher’s central, guiding question for her government — “Is there a more market-oriented solution?” — offers a clue in the inherent contradiction it contains for both economies....
...Then of course there’s today’s Tory prime minister with “f*ck business”....
...These qualities feature in the set pieces of the great 20th-century party laureates — F Scott Fitzgerald, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green....
...(He’s too polite to say the F word.) “And it kills me. Because I know that in my professional life, I’m better at it. So I don’t think we have a universal capability with feedback....
...A Margaret Bourke-White photo from 1932 sings the power of great gearworks at a Chrysler plant. Charles Sheeler’s 1927 ode to Ford’s River Rouge factory quivers with Olympian power....
...That deceptively flat, wry tone characterises Hampton’s debut collection, F*ckface And Other Stories....
...Shortage of cash has forced the UK to cut its order of F-35 jets from the US. The Marine Corps planes fill an otherwise embarrassing gap. Likewise, USS The Sullivans....
...workaday, but there’s a certain comfort to that....
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