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...Things went similarly smoothly when Motion was teaching English at Hull University, where he hit it off with Philip Larkin (“the greatest poet alive”) and, after Larkin’s death in 1985, Motion became the...
...I’d been called to attention by jealousy. Who was or still is your mentor?...
...Not for him the response he quotes from Philip Larkin: “No, not without being someone else.”...
...Incontrovertibly, he maintained that you’d have got it over with, and nothing even half as bad would happen to you for the rest of the day....
...In short, all the ride-ons did well and at least their cacophony warns wildlife to scatter and so avoid meeting the sad end of the hedgehog in Philip Larkin’s “The Mower”....
...Nine feature women, led by the harem picture “Les Femmes d’Algers (Version ‘O’)” ($179.4mn in 2015)....
...I’d grown up surrounded by shit, and I always enjoyed getting rid of it . . ....
...And we’d expect the well-known problems in UK policing will continue to cause voters alarm and to dominate media attention....
...But pick up a copy of D&D’s Monster Manual and you will find graceful elves, thuggish orcs and skilled dwarven craftsmen: the world that D&D players inhabit is the world that Tolkien made....
...To be fair, he makes some imaginative leaps, including a nice comparison of the self-hating ex-boxer Mike Tyson with the poet Philip Larkin. There is the odd incisive line....
...Walsingham offers an unexpected coda to Larkin’s pessimism....
...Since then, corporate diversity and inclusion policies have provided an outlet for some frustrations, argues David D’Souza, membership director at the CIPD, the UK personnel body....
...And finally, that Larkin poem....
...Not a poem by the standards I’d been taught to write when I was a student at Stanford. No, I’d found myself on a different road....
...As in Philip Larkin’s poem “Annus Mirabilis”, I remark: “Between the end of the ‘Chatterley’ ban and the Beatles’ first LP.” “Absolutely....
...What d’you expect?” What will Britain be, without its pubs?...
...The Larkin Building in Buffalo, New York, had the form of an enormous brick. Yet it marked the start of an era. The innovations included air-conditioning, filing cabinets and wall-hung toilets....
...But in the case of the markets, I’ve followed the Philip Larkin approach: “Most people know more as they get older/I give all that the cold shoulder”....
...If there’s a kernel of truth in every dream, this one showed that parenting turns you into someone you never thought you’d become. It seemed like a good idea for a TV show....
...And at the same time he was absolutely enthused, well into his 70s, by the work of Robert Browning, which he’d never really read before....
...“The DUP want Northern Ireland to be successful but they’d really need to step up to the mark in the negotiations here to get agriculture to a fairer place,” he added....
...My life hasn’t turned out how I’d like”? What made me answer, “I am really sorry to hear that. Must be so, so tough . . . ” and miss my stop?...
...We had this rack of lamb during the holidays — you’d get half as much as [you would] on any other day, you’d be paying way more, and it wouldn’t even be as good as the real menu.”...
...Art hands down misery to man (with apologies to Larkin); it deepens like a library shelf....
...He is a fine reader of Philip Larkin’s poetry; an unconvincing defender of his character....
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