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...Saturday 1 April, 2pm, Weston Lecture Theatre, £7-£12.50 Mary and Mr Eliot: A Sort of Love StoryWriter and journalist Erica Wagner discusses her new book, which explores the relationship between TS Eliot...
...Soon after the MS diagnosis, he picks up The Journal of a Disappointed Man by Bruce Cummings, published in 1919 under a pseudonym, WNP Barbellion....
...“Under the brown fog of a winter dawn, / A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, / I had not thought death had undone so many,” TS Eliot wrote in “The Waste Land”....
...In the same issue read Eliot Cohen’s sharp piece on how a second Trump term would make America’s decline inevitable and probably irretrievable — “The end of American power”....
...“Just because I love Dostoyevsky didn’t mean that I couldn’t love Bruce Springsteen,” she once said. There is another reason why Sontag remains relevant....
...“Validus brings expertise in underwriting property risk, including catastrophe risk, and has a good record of performance,” says Bruce Ballentyne, an analyst at Moody’s. Yet it has upset some....
...“Howard . . . longs for acclaim, and for oblivion,” was how his friend Bruce Chatwin put it....
...Phlegmatic boss Bruce Hemphill can sell a stake in OM Asset Management valued at around $1bn more easily, as the unit has a US quote....
...“When a new work of art is created,” TS Eliot said, something “happens simultaneously to all the works of art that preceded it.”...
...He accompanied Ida on portrait shoots for magazines — TS Eliot, Tennessee Williams, Aldous Huxley — and served as her “sex slave”. Victor, he has said, preferred older women: “Oh, yes....
...“We build a highly detailed 3D computer model, which is used for every part of the design, manufacturing and construction process,” says Bruce Bell, Facit’s co-founder and director....
...Some, such as Joseph Beuys, Bruce Nauman, Paul Noble and Simon Starling, had already made work directly in response to Moore....
...He says it is also “an outlier for mortality” and was one of the eleven trusts placed in “special measures” following a national review of mortality by Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS medical director....
...Top brokers were banned from receiving contingent commissions following an inquiry into the industry about eight years ago led by Eliot Spitzer, former New York attorney-general....
...Sir Bruce stressed that the hospitals concerned were “already working closely with a range of regulators.”...
...“There are few specific rules – and little active regulation,” says Bruce Hepburn, chief executive of Mactavish, the UK insurance governance boutique....
...Eliot, a rather different poet though an admirer of Kipling, to explain why. “Humankind cannot bear very much reality.” The writer is a political commentator...
...In “Large Interior, W9” (1973), the nude – Freud’s lover Jacquetta Eliot – is grotesquely enlarged in relation to a too-small bed and to the shrunken, oblivious figure of the artist’s mother....
...Professor Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS medical director, who commissioned the review of mortality indicators, warned that the data should not be used in isolation to judge hospitals....
...My father’s cousin, Eliot Hodgkin, had wonderful paintings by Corot and Degas, and I managed to persuade him to buy a few Indian pictures....
...Burns is a pleated-bib formal dress shirt (a nod to Burns’ Night), while Eliot is crisp and striped (imagine him presiding over Faber’s old offices in Bloomsbury)....
...Ideally, you’d want it to be Bruce Willis, but it’s never going to happen. What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever done to research your work?...
...Eliot line from Four Quartets that gives the play its title. As Smith recites, a fog bell tolls O’Neill-ishly....
...It was all about adolescents caught in the space between desire and despair: very TS Eliot both in theme and in measured, mandarin pace. But isn’t the best comedy often slow?...
...I’d like to invite Jane Austen or George Eliot to provide scintillating conversation at dinner and help with bedtime stories. Do you take your BlackBerry/iPhone?...
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