Hints and tips:
...The founding fathers have been turned into a collective Moses with his tablets. Which gets me back to Samuel Alito’s leaked draft ruling to abolish Roe vs Wade....
...Uptown in Harlem’s Marcus Garvey Park, under the aegis of the Studio Museum Harlem, is an equally strong piece of public sculpture, unveiled in October but on show for a full year: Thomas J Price’s 9ft bronze...
...Paul J Isaac Arbiter Partners, New York, NY, US...
...★★☆☆☆ Letter in response to this article: ‘Motherless Brooklyn’ is based on Moses biography / From Paul J Isaac, Arbiter Partners, New York, NY, US...
...Akhenaten appealed for his pioneering attempt to impose monotheism, two centuries before Moses, though the old order sought violently to suppress his memory....
...Much of this fear was generated by FBI director J Edgar Hoover, who was so obsessed that he seemed, at times, to prefer chasing red demons to actual organised crime....
...Then we make our way along Wood Vale, past K & J Libretto & Daughters, a resolutely ungentrified butcher’s shop....
...Andrew J Summey, senior investor relations and marketing manager at Zion, certainly appears proud of his work....
...Minsky reminisced recently about J Robert Oppenheimer taking him to lunch with not only the logician Kurt Gödel but also Albert Einstein, whom he found hard to grasp, more for the émigré’s accent than any...
...The social consequences that a top-down approach to urban design can have is epitomised by Robert Moses — 20th-century New York’s master builder....
...In Edinburgh’s Princes Street there is a bench with a brass plaque stating simply, “Remembering J.C.H. Who was often tired.” It’s a delightful moment....
...Monday’s double bill at the Queen Elizabeth Hall was equally strong, with unadorned modernism from US saxophonist J.D....
...to muse on natural phenomena and perception, as in the pairing of dark and light in “Shade and Darkness – The Evening of the Deluge”, “Light and Colour (Goethe’s Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses...
...J H Plumb, who had been my professor at Cambridge, was its editor and he thought I was the person to finish it....
...Stewart has in recent years created a wide range of branded products – including homewares for Macy’s department stores and, in 2007, a Martha Stewart wine vintage with E & J Gallo winery....
...D.J. Taylor, the biographer of George Orwell, called Mr Blair’s style “very odd”....
...If African-Americans revered King as the apostle of black liberation, the FBI supremo J Edgar Hoover derided him as a fake Moses figure bent on causing havoc....
...Think of Grandma Moses sharing an easel with J.M.W. Turner....
...“Crossing the Brook”, a Devonshire landscape in Italianate classical style, based on a print of Claude’s “Landscape with Moses Saved from the Water”, joins Claude’s original, visiting from Madrid’s Prado...
...Later he hit upon a phrase to explain his choice: “Try to imagine you got a phone call from Moses.” … In the meantime, the calls are coming from headhunters....
...Among the pairings are “Moonlight, a Study at Millbank” (1797) with Rembrandt’s “Landscape with the Rest on the Flight into Egypt” (1647); “Crossing the Brook” (1815) with Claude’s “Moses Saved from the...
...But how much more interesting that point becomes when Schama zooms in on the tribulations of J Hector St John de Crèvecoeur, whose Letters from an American Farmer (1782) first made the universalist case,...
...He also made powerful enemies, including FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, who called him a “notorious Negro agitator”....
...The easier half of the riddle was cracked in 1955 by the polymath J.B.S. Haldane, once described as “the last man who might know all there was to be known”. His answer begins with a mother’s love....
...Michael Moses, a New York University academic who with Jianping Mei compiles the Mei Moses art price indices, said that 6,800 guineas was a top price for the time, and equivalent to almost $35,000 today....
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