Hints and tips:
...If I cannot work up much anger at Big Tech, it is because, by the providence of YouTube, Christopher Hitchens lives on....
...“The protests had a level of legitimacy which protesters in the past didn’t have,” said Christopher Sabatini, senior fellow for Latin America at the Chatham House think-tank....
...Even Christopher Marlowe, writing his play The Massacre at Paris 20 years later for an English Protestant audience, couldn’t help making the perpetrators into some of his most charismatic creations, and...
...Some of the most famous writers and critics — Christopher Hitchens, for instance, or Gore Vidal, who both wrote for the NYRB — were often offensive. Moreover, free speech can never be absolute....
...His rising literary star combined with his patrician manners, movie-star good looks and serrated wit to gain him entrée to the world of the rich and famous, including Tennessee Williams, Anaïs Nin, Christopher...
...Conducting the Brahms Symphonies: From Brahms to Boult, by Christopher Dyment, Boydell Press, RRP£25 In his preface Dyment wonders if he is merely a “fossil hunter”....
...The master of such leaps was Gore Vidal (1925-2012)....
...Its loss could shrink the Cuban economy by up to 8 per cent, calculates Mr Vidal....
...Christopher Bray is author of ‘Sean Connery: The Measure of a Man’ (Faber)...
...Ireland, London, Paris; with Gore Vidal, Tom Stoppard and Bono (!) for expert chat. We even go to Palestine to dig up Herod and his story....
...William F Buckley, Christopher Lasch and C Wright Mills had more influence on their contemporaries. Gore Vidal, Noam Chomsky, James Baldwin and Norman Mailer sold more books....
...Gore Vidal’s first book, Williwaw (1946), is as close in time to Trollope’s late novels, Marion Fay and The Fixed Period (1882), as it is to us....
...William Shakespeare’s contemporary Christopher Marlowe met an early death at the age of 29, in 1593, stabbed in the eye after an alleged row over a drinks bill....
...Gore Vidal is still cranking out books, and is prominent as a critic of the Bush administration and the war in Iraq....
...And is Gore Vidal still turning out crisp anti-Nixon epigrams on demand?...
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