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...For now, the leading practitioner is the earnest Kevin (a hulking Efron)....
...Take Dylan’s earnest, acoustic “spokesman of a generation” style on his 1962 debut album Bob Dylan — autumnal coat, peaked cap, a look borrowed from Woody Guthrie and quickly emulated by The Beatles....
...A revitalisation of the underused asset of the MP that we elect is vital as the global battles on climate, social media and between autocracy and democracy begin in earnest....
...Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Jordan B Peterson, Allen Lane RRP£25/Portfolio Penguin RRP$29, 432 pages Lucy Kellaway is an FT contributing editor Join our online book group on Facebook at FT...
...As did Innumeracy, by John Allen Paulos. I wish Tim Harford’s book the same. Bradley LucierProfessor Emeritus, Purdue UniversityWest Lafayette, IN, US...
...Boy on Fire: The Young Nick Cave, by Mark Mordue, Allen & Unwin, RRP£20, 432 pages Excavate!...
...I find earnest, humourless idiots really irritating. If your 20-year-old self could see you now, what would she think? I’m having a good year so I think she would be a bit relieved....
...The boss, Sandy (a splendidly passive-aggressive Conleth Hill) shows up less and less frequently; the earnest and intense scribe (Bill Milner) falls ill; Sarah, the PA (the excellent Imogen Doel), cheerfully...
...Many of these (120) include handwritten annotations by the poet Allen Ginsberg, who saw them in 1982....
...A fictionalised Allen Ginsberg, for example, looks on non-English-speaking poets with a crassly romanticising gaze while on a trip to India: “Allen and Peter . . . sat at the feet of the Urduwallahs, oohing...
...Voters, especially the young, see its candidates as earnest politicians who are worth a try regardless of their faults....
...So Brexit is fascinating; parts of it are even amusing (apart from to the earnest), and parts are excruciating. For many, whose rights and livelihoods may be affected, it is often terrifying....
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...Toys’r’Us was the first casualty and when the tide goes out these hollow shells will start imploding in earnest.”...
...The less earnest people watching the hearing would have enjoyed a couple of things....
...Josh Earnest, White House spokesman, said that “anytime that information like this is released in the context of a criminal complaint, the federal government is reminded of how important it is to be vigilant...
...Tom Stoppard is indisputably a genius, both as a playwright and as a, well, genius — but sometimes I secretly yearn to say to him what the Martians told Woody Allen in Stardust Memories: that I enjoy his...
...Jo Ellison is the FT’s fashion editor Letter in response to this article: Tracing Burberry’s raincoat back to Shylock / From Allen Tobias...
...Josh Earnest, White House spokesman, refused to confirm on Tuesday Mr Allen’s departure, but he added: “What I can say more generally about General Allen is he is somebody who signed up for a six-month tour...
...Along with his dismissal of “Bohemian intellectuals” such as Woolf, he styles BBC2 discussion programmes as “painfully earnest”, and peppers these chapters with references to “sneering critics” (God help...
...So much of it has built up in the atmosphere since fossil fuel burning began in earnest that those of us alive today are the first homo sapiens to breathe in air with carbon dioxide levels of 400 parts per...
...Sam Helfrich’s smart production, with sets by Allen Moyer in which vintage subway images cleverly designate locales, moves the action along swiftly....
...His verse is disarmingly earnest, with an unwavering focus on political and social reality that gives this the air of that rare thing: an honest manifesto....
...John Sinclair” — and performed it at a December 10 1971 Michigan rally to free the imprisoned rabble-rouser, which was attended by 15,000 people and also featured US cultural icons ranging from the poet Allen...
...Last year, it was 2.5 times bigger than Cyber Monday in the US, the day after Thanksgiving, when online Christmas shopping begins in earnest....
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