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...The resulting book is in a sense a 21st-century remake of Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History and the Last Man. Roy agrees that history had “ended”, but not with the triumph of democratic capitalism....
...Vatican City: Pope Francis leads the Midnight Mass at St Peter’s Basilica...
...The Hotel Georgia quickly became popular with the well-heeled and famous, including Hollywood stars and royalty, from Laurence Olivier and John Wayne to future British king Edward, Prince of Wales, and his...
...Recent posts have included a painting, Two Owls, No. 1, 1959, by Francis Bacon, and images of models walking in their summer 2024 catwalk show....
...With uncharacteristically understated interiors by the fashionable London-based designer Francis Sultana, whose first hotel project this is, it promises more than a little in common with its Riviera stablemate...
...Meanwhile, political philosopher Francis Fukuyama returns to familiar areas of inquiry in Liberalism and its Discontents (Profile, March), a short, sharp defence of a world view under threat....
...This is what is at stake,” Olivier Andriès, Safran chief executive, told the Financial Times in an interview....
...Olivier Faure, leader of the opposition Socialist party, seized on what he called the government’s incoherence and incompetence....
...reaction to modernism; anticlericalism and the separation of church and state (most notably with the laïcité law of 1905 in France); the globalisation of religious movements (of which the Argentine Pope Francis...
...But this one, preventing another eurozone crisis, is very obvious,” says Olivier Blanchard, a former chief economist of the IMF....
...Beaton was out driving with his friend, the writer Edith Olivier, having visited another potential home (swiftly rejected), when, by chance, they passed through the village of Broad Chalke, and halted in...
...With Clybourne Park, the only play ever, apart from Glengarry Glen Ross, to win Pulitzer, Tony and Olivier awards, Bruce Norris became the favourite gadfly of liberal society: delineating the limits of...
...In this revival of his 2013 production for the Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Olivier Py’s Dialogues des Carmélites still captures the piercing timelessness of Poulenc’s 1957 opera....
...Sir, Ten years after Olivier Roy described the spread of self-centred individualised forms of religiosity in his 2008 book La Sainte ignorance....
...distorted and disturbing Francis Bacon-inspired contortions....
...Not even the torrential rain could damp their spirits as they darted between meetings with investors and presentations in the historic Westin St Francis hotel, the venue for the JPMorgan healthcare conference...
...For this excursion he chose a discerning programme juxtaposing Pierre Boulez, Francis Poulenc and Olivier Messiaen. He must have been in a rough and/or rowdy Gallic mood....
...He has since built a collection of works by artists including Peter Joseph, Ryan Gander, Thomas Schütte and Francis Alÿs....
...I thought the wines of Adhémar et Francis Boudin (Lea & Sandeman) were generally underpriced....
...Few writers would be capable of penning books on religion with both Richard Dawkins, the scientist and prominent atheist, and Pope Francis....
...Olivier Mampouya has joined the team in London as a sales director covering the UK, having previously worked for Wellington Management....
...Other readables Pope Francis speaks in favour of a bankruptcy procedure for sovereigns....
...I also note that former pupils of all-girls school Francis Holland include Laurence Olivier, and that Withington Girls’ School has “Old Boys” from the interwar years....
...Phillips’ sale, coming in at the end of the week, made $113.75m for two catalogues, its top lot being Francis Bacon’s “Seated Woman (Portrait of Muriel Belcher)” (1961), carrying a third-party guarantee,...
...Almost 50 years after its last performance at the Paris Opera, Verdi’s foray into Egyptian colour has been disinterred by Olivier Py only to be reburied in a vulgar ceremony of unsubtle, recycled stagecraft...
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