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...elegance of New Criticism (her formal style was mocked by Hughes’ friends when she arrived at Cambridge) to a mystical and surreal form of her own, which drew on the “confessional” poetry of Lowell and Anne Sexton...
...The brutality of the rubber industry, which relied on slave labour, and the atrocitiescommitted by Leopold’s regime, appalled Britain when they were exposed by the journalist Edmund Dene Morel....
...“He’s got to win, he’s about collecting records, and becoming a YouTube star by the way he comes across,” Rudd said of O’Brady, who delivered a Ted Talk last year that has had more than a million views....
...In 1958, Sir Edmund Hillary became only the third person to reach the South Pole by land, and continued to make the first overland Antarctic crossing — but he drove there in a fleet of tractors....
...The latest one — a loose non-aggression pact between Ted Cruz and John Kasich, his last rivals — fits that sorry pattern. The idea was to carve up the remaining states to combine the anti-Trump vote....
...Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life, by Jonathan Bate, William Collins, RRP£30/Harper, RRP$40 Bate’s book started out as a “literary life”, bolstered by huge amounts of research and unfettered access, but...
...It was a huge step when he purchased a car in 1964 and then a house 10 years later, where a framed photograph of Ted Hughes was displayed in the lavatory....
...The White Road, by Edmund de Waal, Chatto & Windus, RRP£20/FSG, RRP$27 The ceramicist and author of The Hare with Amber Eyes (2010) returns with his history of porcelain from ancient China to the present...
...For them, the social contract was between people living there and then – not, as Edmund Burke had it two millennia later, between successive generations....
...He came closer four years later when he challenged Jimmy Carter – Ted Kennedy also ran – but Carter prevailed, only to be swept aside by Reagan in the general election....
...“Sweet Thames, run softly, till I end my song,” wrote Edmund Spenser, born the son of a journeyman in 16th-century East Smithfield – now Tower Hamlets, site of the Olympic Park....
...practical matters, well, it can be done: bear in mind that Virgil’s Georgics had the explicit ambition of being a guide to farming, as well as an account of the pastoral year – an ambition picked up by Ted...
...Edmund Truell, the company’s chief executive, is fighting back....
...Designer Nigel Cabourne, owner of more than 4,000 vintage utility garments and creative consultant to Rohan, Ted Baker and US military and outer-wear specialists Alpha Industries, is another flag waver for...
...According to Rebecca Nicolson (founder of Small Books) Jeff Bezos is not the person to watch, but Ted Smart....
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