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...With little to show for itself, the ruling party reaches instinctively for the memory of Nelson Mandela....
...Alondra Nelson is a professor at the Institute for Advanced Study....
...Meanwhile, we follow Pinckney as he is gradually inducted — with the aid of Barbara Epstein, Hardwick’s neighbour and co-founder of the NYRB — into leading cultural circles in New York....
...It was only me, before Kissinger, before Nixon, before Barbara Walters. That was a life-changing trip. It inspired me.”...
...The store has enjoyed a strong reputation since the early 1980s, and inside I found a vintage Air-King, like the one my wife had tried on in Santa Barbara....
...One image that stands out for Corbijn, however, is a portrait of Nelson Mandela....
...‘The Model Black: How Black British Leaders Succeed in Organisations and Why It Matters’, by Barbara Banda “To be quite honest with you, Barbara, girls like you . . . don’t go to Oxford.”...
...Despite its title, Reynolds Nelson’s fascinating book covers far more than the rise of the US wheat industry....
...Working from studios overlooking the sea at the southernmost extremity of Cornwall, artists including Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Peter Lanyon, Naum Gabo, Patrick Heron and Terry Frost propelled modernism...
...Nelson Peltz to join Unilever board The activist investor, who runs New York group Trian Fund Management, is to join the board of the consumer goods group behind brands such as Magnum ice cream and Dove...
...In the 1950s, Sottsass worked for the Modernist US designer George Nelson. In 1959, he was involved in the design of Italy’s first computer, Elea, for pioneering electronics firm Olivetti....
...Nelson Mandela and Aids activist and writer Larry Kramer are profiled for their tireless quest for identity and equity....
...Patrick McCray, a history professor at University of California, Santa Barbara, who has written about the need to maintain, as much as reinvent, functioning institutions, argues that it is ideology and politics...
...Mine Workers, Washington, DC, May 5 1976; Frank Church, US senator (Idaho), Washington, DC, March 1 1976; Mike Mansfield, US senator (Montana), majority leader of the Senate, Washington, DC, March 2 1976; Nelson...
...First based in Horatio Nelson’s old home in Dover Street, just off Piccadilly, it moved to its current home in the Mall in 1968. “Can you imagine?”...
...Bush came under the wing of party moderates such as Nelson Rockefeller. It was Richard Nixon who tapped him in 1971 to become US ambassador to the UN....
...If Gillum does win his race, it could potentially boost Nelson’s campaign, particularly with young voters....
...The call, which Kathrada said he “agonised” over, was echoed by other struggle stalwarts including his partner, Barbara Hogan....
...Andris Nelsons and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra entice the senses with an iridescent kaleidoscope of colours....
...at the University of California, Santa Barbara....
...Barbara Hannigan, the avant-garde diva for whom the piece was created, sang with otherworldly élan and dauntless purity....
...As Penelope, whose waiting for his return forms the heart of the drama, Barbara Kozelj performed with sincerity, but her voice lacked the necessary richness and colour....
...The centre lies in the heart of the poverty-stricken province — about an hour from Nelson Mandela’s birthplace — on the site of an old trading station in Hobeni, where Donald was born and brought up....
...The last decades of his life, dominated by fading powers and his fourth wife Barbara (an echo of his domineering mother, Dolly), are dispatched in a brisk 100 pages....
...It is written with arch-siren Barbara Hannigan in mind, and she could easily wreck a fleet of ships if she so desired. She floats to the stage chanting Homer’s text....
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