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...This season, menswear has embraced the gimlet-tinged mood of Cecil Beaton’s diaries, the roman à clefs of Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford, and the posturing of their 1920s peers....
...Additional reporting by Henry Foy in Brussels and Roman Olearchyk in Kyiv...
...The 17th-century food writer John Evelyn banned garlic from his salads due to its “intolerable rankness” and wrote that it should be kept for rustic types....
...The feathered feet of Evelyn Waugh’s questing vole are never far away....
...Whether you are Evelyn Waugh, lunching on caviar, grouse and peaches, King Zog of Albania, in residence with your entourage and weekly settling the tab in gold, or Margaret Thatcher in her final days, it...
...Thomas Johannes Mayer is a distraught, gripping Orest, but it is Evelyn Herlitzius as a maniacal Elektra who creates searing drama....
...Only once Anglo Catholicism had replaced Roman Catholicism could England save itself and go it alone....
...You’ll also find amazing dishes by my cook, Evelyn – I have a real problem resisting her chocolate fondant cake and vanilla biscuits....
...Keith Craig, London, UK ‘Duel’ that dates back to a Spartan lawgiver “Polybius and Levy traced the Roman constitution to the Roman choice of the Spartan constitution created by Lycurgus....
...Wren had reimagined London as a city of baroque grandeur; John Evelyn saw a similar city of riverside squares and wide avenues; Robert Hooke submitted a plan, too — his was based on a grid that foreshadowed...
...Augustine’s Confessions vividly makes present to us the world of the late Roman empire....
...Part futuristic dystopia, part Roman epic fantasy, it’s gutsy, gory and compelling....
...The influence of Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene is obvious. Fr Julian’s background brings Brideshead Revisited to mind and there is also a debt to The Power and the Glory....
...The main thoroughfare, Hatton Street, was first mentioned in 1659 by diarist John Evelyn, who records the residential development of gardens that had once been part of a vast, profitable estate belonging...
...A 17th-century farmhouse, ancient oak trees, meadows leading towards the river Rother and stone stabling that once housed polo ponies belonging to Evelyn de Rothschild complete the picture....
...But the latest incidents mark a new low in race relations in a region that for 30 years was plagued by sectarian violence between rival Protestant and Roman Catholic communities....
...While his early books reflected his Roman Catholic upbringing, he is most famous for his campus trilogy: Changing Places (1975), Small World (1984) and Nice Work (1988)....
...America had worshipped at the altar of English ostentation long before the television mini-series of Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited debuted on PBS in January of 1982, but never had the adulation...
...In the Chapelle du Méjan, now a cultural centre, exhibitions include those devoted to John Demos, who, disguised as a bus-riding tourist, recorded the collapse of Enver Hoxha’s Albania; Jane Evelyn Atwood...
...boys being sold to Moroccan soldiers in Naples during the second world war, or the letters of Margaret Paston to her husband in the unsettled 15th century, fearing riots were about to break out; or John Evelyn...
...As to the movie, well, I don’t remember who it was that, after seeing Brideshead Revisited, said, “Evelyn’s life would have been completely different if he had looked like Jeremy Irons.”...
...Mary Evelyn Tucker, co-ordinator of the Harvard Forum on Religion and Ecology, calls the Oxford conference “a hugely important conversion moment for the evangelicals....
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