Hints and tips:
...All you need is a small Weber gas model with a side table and stand. Move over Francis Mallmann....
...The German sociologist Max Weber put it down to Protestant ethics and asceticism. Harvard academic Joseph Henrich has a different big idea: not marrying your cousins....
...Another recently digitised recording preserves the voice of Sir Francis Chichester from his yacht Gipsy Moth IV during his 1966-67 circumnavigation of the globe, speaking by radio to his wife, Lady Sheila...
...He said his promotion of Christian values was “closer to Pope Francis than to the likes of Orban”....
...Manfred Weber, a German Christian Democrat who is chairman of the centre-right European People’s Party, called the Pope’s speech a “timely wake-up call” to Europeans....
...tate.org.uk, 020 7887 8888, to September 7 … Max Weber: An American Cubist in Paris and London, Ben Uri Gallery, London Another modernist beneath the radar, Weber was born in Russia, emigrated to Brooklyn...
...Eugen Weber, the late US historian, wrote an influential book, Peasants into Frenchmen (1976), in which he showed how the modern French identity arose in the late 19th and early 20th centuries from economic...
...When the Paris Opera decided to put on Weber’s Der Freischütz in 1841, it commissioned Berlioz to write the recitatives to replace the original spoken dialogue....
...It’s Weber’s month in France....
...Meanwhile, afternoon tea was about to be served in the Empress Hotel, a beautiful château-style building designed by the British architect Francis Rattenbury....
...But his world is, in the phrase of the godfather of modern sociology, Max Weber, an enchanted world, in which ideas like proportion and harmony efface any such division....
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