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...The cynicism of David Gelber, the assistant editor of the Literary Review writing in your Letters section (“Last rites for zero-star reviews are premature”, Letters, December 30), casts too harsh a light...
...Lord David Willetts, a former Tory minister known as “two Brains” for his intellectual mien, is widely considered to be the frontrunner as CCC chair....
...(There also seems to be a nostalgia boom; next April, Picador will publish Agnes Arnold-Forster’s Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion)....
...Many investors and analysts have bought into the turnaround story, including longtime bear David Perry of JPMorgan, who in December issued an “overweight” rating on the stock for the first time since October...
...“I want so to see the Arno,” insists Lucy Honeychurch as she is confronted with the dismal vista at her Florence guesthouse in EM Forster’s A Room with a View....
...I think it's very clever of David to work that out. INTERVIEWER: Yeah, it seemed too clever by half by your response, though. I thought I should ask you....
...Twitter Letters in response to this article: Why the term Big Tech usually makes me cringe / From Michael Ayres, San Francisco, CA, US For Google and Facebook, capital efficiency was key / From Paul Forster...
...I don’t like the feeling of walking into an EM Forster novel; times have changed....
...The portfolio of Duncan’s sexually explicit drawings now on show at Charleston, the house near the south coast of England where Grant lived with Vanessa Bell and, sometimes, David Garnett — both his lovers...
...Star writers turned up such as JB Priestley, EM Forster and George Bernard Shaw, as well as David Lloyd George (though the former prime minister, a natural orator, suffered speaker’s cramp in the absence...
...Its membership has maintained its lustre over the years, since hosting Virginia Woolf (whose father opened the Reading Room here), Joseph Conrad, Agatha Christie, EM Forster, Winston Churchill and Bram Stoker...
...In EM Forster’s A Passage to India, a British expat is “invaded” by the heat; the air feels “like a warm bath into which hotter water is trickling constantly”....
...Stalwart Los Angeles gallerist David Kordansky has confirmed rumours that he is expanding his operation for the first time to New York....
...In 1914, when Forster first wrote the book, society would have been scandalised....
...She offers a fascinating chapter on the rise of clerks, key to understanding HG Wells’s frustrated Mr Polly or EM Forster’s doomed Leonard Bast....
...Its alumni include the artist Tracey Emin, the entrepreneur Sir James Dyson, and the architect Sir David Adjaye....
...But there is a longer tradition of portraying the British empire in India, which Forster wrote about in A Passage to India, adapted by David Lean in 1984....
...“There has definitely been a move away from monochrome grey-and-white interiors,” says Giles Forster, director of 19th-century furniture and decorative arts at Christie’s London....
...The trademark aluminium ribbed case – modern iterations of which are the must-have travelling companions of Roger Federer, Kim Jones, Gwyneth Paltrow, David Beckham – was first made in the 1930s....
...Broadbent, Derbyshire, England Polymath 1,056: B Wardhaugh, Manchester, England Crossword 13,365: Michael Eve, Rye, England; Christopher Barrat, London; Suzanna Anslow, Surrey, England Polymath 1,055: Roger Forster...
...Nathan Forster, founder of NEOU, a connected fitness platform, said he considered the 30 per cent fee a marketing cost. “We drive traffic through the App Store,” he said....
...(CSIS Take as Directed, 34m) Foreign aid Interview with Gary Forster of Publish What You Fund, a campaign for transparency in aid and development....
...David Yang’s latest venture is Yva, an AI engine that uses corporate data to predict, among other things, whether key staff are likely to resign....
...There is a firm trio of officers, sung by Thomas Oliemans, David Soar and Peter Kellner....
...EM Forster’s overused Howards End epigraph “Only Connect” bookends the film, to reinforce the point, in case you somehow missed it....
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