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...It is land, however, where the greatest divide lies, as Henry George, the American journalist, politician and political economist so ably advocated a century and a half ago....
...Lord Norman Foster still works at the age of 88, Frank Gehry at 94. Will Heatherwick similarly keep on designing? “I don’t think of it as design.” Translation: it is life....
...This article has been amended to reflect the fact that Norman Foster, rather than Foster + Partners, was awarded the Pritzker Prize...
...Onetime social realists such as Norman Lewis took refuge in the abstract glowing sublime....
...384 pages Edward Luce is the FT’s US national editor Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café Letter in response to this article: Your ‘Birchers’ review used an overbroad brush / From Henry...
...A postwar highlight is Henry Moore and Francis Bacon battling sensibilities of societal healing against lonely existential anguish....
...Sixty years before the fantasy Norman fortress of Penrhyn, the authentically Norman Curzon family in Derbyshire had commissioned Robert Adam to copy a Palladian villa for their new house....
...The former Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker is one outlier, having raised questions on the topic in parliament during his time in office between 1997 and 2015....
...Designed by Richard Norman Shaw, one of the great domestic architects of the era, they represented an attempt to formulate a language for apartment living particular to London....
...Many of the surnames, including my own, are Norman, while others are Gaelic. Then the English came, including Sir Henry Wallop, who rebuilt Enniscorthy Castle....
...Thank you to all four of you, James, Rana, Norm, and his dog, Henry, who deserves a shout out. RANA FOROOHAR (LAUGHING): Henry. EDWARD LUCE: Thank you, all of you....
...Though the trial by blood had settled the matter at the Battle of Hastings, the Norman conqueror William insisted on a coronation on Christmas Day at the still more momentous foundation of the Abbey of St...
...had fallen completely out of favour, so Savall went digging for music, first in the British Museum’s library, where he found “the enormous repertoire” of composers such as Tobias Hume, Matthew Locke and Henry...
...Cecil Beaton upended static coronation portrait conventions by placing the Queen against a painted backdrop of the fan-vaulted ceiling in Henry VII’s Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey....
...Foster saved enough to fly to America (“a £100 one-way air ticket,” he says of what was most certainly a princely sum for a young grad) and through the Henry Fellowship was offered a place at Yale....
...Henry Mance is the FT’s chief features writer. He will be one of the speakers at the FT Weekend Festival on Saturday 4 September....
...The British author Norman Angell argued in 1910 that war was obsolete because of economic interdependence between countries....
...Jesse Norman is financial secretary to the UK Treasury and author of Adam Smith: What He Thought and Why it Matters (Allen Lane/Basic Books) Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 1): 1918-38, edited...
...Henry VIII’s dissolution of the monasteries meant many religious buildings passed into private hands....
...And again, that’s a huge Henry VIII power, and that means there’s considerable discretion for ministers....
...He recalls filming an adaptation of War and Peace in Rome with his hero Henry Fonda, “the first time I was ever truly awestruck”....
...The southern part of the woods lay within the manor of Croydon, which had been a possession of the Archbishops of Canterbury since before the Norman Conquest....
...Pelley has formed an alliance with the US PGA Tour, the world’s dominant circuit, while Norman wants to challenge this dominant duo....
...Henry V would blush. If your truck is capable of more than 56 miles an hour, regardless of what speed you are doing, they can fine you. They love to check your tacho....
...These qualities feature in the set pieces of the great 20th-century party laureates — F Scott Fitzgerald, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Green....
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