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...And Sutherland, Turnbull, Caulfield, Hodgkin, Uglow, Scott, Heron, Hilton, Davie, Andrews gone. Sandra Blow, Gillian Ayres, Prunella Clough, all gone....
...Alfred Prufrock” (“The poet and the professor”, Life & Arts, November 21)....
...Alfred Prufrock” (1915) he recalled, wearily, “I have . . . seen some quite astonishing over-interpretation of this poem”....
...His first mature work, “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock”, was written when he was 22. It contains the couplet: I grow old . . . I grow old . . . I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled....
...Alfred Tennyson, for example, even after he had made his name as the new John Keats, could not afford to marry the woman he loved until he was 40....
...Wallis, Graham Sutherland and Harold Harvey, alongside those of Sir Terry Frost and Dame Laura Knight....
...Simon Kuper Film Alfred Hitchcock, by Peter Ackroyd, Chatto & Windus, RRP£12.99 Ever ferreting out the best details, this short and engrossing biography of the much-examined director tells us, for example...
..., consisting of items owned by the famous, ranging from the cigarette case given by Lord Alfred Douglas to Oscar Wilde to Elvis Presley’s sapphire ring....
...John Sutherland is author of ‘Curiosities of Literature: A Book-lover’s Anthology of Literary Erudition’ (Random House)...
...Did the ghost of Ray Bradbury get together with that of Alfred Jarry?...
...Did Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland’s little daughter really drown in that innocent-seeming garden pond?...
...Alfred Bressand left the energy giant in January last year and joined Mr Piebalgs pro bono three months later. He is now a professor at Columbia university in the US....
...So the transfer of the collection up the road to Reading Museum, a Victorian Gothic magnificence designed by Alfred Waterhouse, architect of the Natural History Museum, is revelatory....
...He says each of the Nobel Prizes devolves from a humanist ambition, stipulated in Alfred Nobel’s will, of “conferring the greatest benefit on mankind”....
...The author obtruding “himself” into the fictional action, like Alfred Hitchcock’s hallmark cameos in his movies, is no new device....
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