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...The subject is Joseph Bologne, known as Chevalier de Saint-Georges, the 18th-century composer we see as a child arriving at boarding school....
...Doug got me into George Cleverley, and I must have about 40 pairs of his shoes....
...The programme is all-American, with classics by Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland and John Williams, as well as beloved pieces such as Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, 100 years after its debut....
...It seems a fair bet that the philosophical revivalists of American conservatism in the 1950s and ’60s — political theorist and social critic Russell Kirk and William F Buckley Jr, the National Review editor...
...Meanwhile, a disappointed biographer named William Jaybey is tasked by Godley Jr to write his father’s biography....
...It focuses on the barbed late-night TV debates in 1968 between the maverick liberal author Gore Vidal and the arch-conservative commentator William F Buckley Jr, which catapulted the struggling ABC network...
...Some abolitionist activists, among them Benjamin Brodie and William Wilberforce, then suggested that Crummell should enter the university....
...The chemical element neon – a colourless gas that glows red when placed in an electric field – was discovered in 1898 by British chemists Morris Travers and William Ramsay....
...Late in 1961, Martin Luther King Jr took a breather....
...We had help this week from Joanna Kao, George Drake Jr., Gregory Meyer, Gavin Kallmann and Michael Bruning. Our global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley, and our theme song is by Metaphor Music....
...Hank Williams Jr’s witty tale of the mishaps of a touring country musician, “OD’d in Denver”, is stripped down musically but built up vocally, with Callahan and Oldham singing in overdubbed unison, accompanied...
...It’s law’ Gillian Tett has lunch with Manhattan’s district attorney, Cyrus Vance Jr, in the DA’s downtown skyscraper....
...We had help this week from Taylor Nicole Rogers, George Drake Jr., Zoe Han, Gavin Kallmann, Michael Bruning and Persis Love. Our theme song is by Metaphor Music....
...William Howard Taft, the 27th US president, had choice words for describing what should become of former occupants of the White House once they left office....
...Six months later, Mr Williams said, “the protests confirmed our decision”....
...After a federal court ruled that the protests were legal, National Guard members escorted the protesters across the same bridge and on a 50-mile trek to Montgomery, Alabama, in what is often regarded as...
...He also acted as a vital adviser to George W Bush, during the disputed 2000 presidential election....
...US media reported that Kimberly Guilfoyle, partner of the president’s son Donald Trump Jr, tested positive for coronavirus on Friday before the Mount Rushmore event....
...Isaac Wright Jr was a New Jersey music producer sentenced to life in 1991 for leading a cocaine trafficking ring....
...I am confident justice will be served,” said William Barr, the US attorney-general, in a statement....
...It took Shaquoia James several attempts to watch the video of George Floyd’s death. “It was a while before I could make myself see the whole thing all the way through,” she says....
...As Martin Luther King Jr said: “A riot is the language of the unheard.”...
...The first concession message by a defeated candidate was in 1896, when William Jennings Bryan wired congratulations to William McKinley two days after the vote....
...Wadsworth, London Crossword 16,212: Caroline Sproule, Moira; L Stone, Dorset; Nancy Cooper, London Polymath 1,029: James Birkett, Brighton Crossword 16,206: Enda Cogan, Dublin Patricia Cairns, Devon; JR...
...In 1963, The Times’ chief music critic William Mann felt moved to praise “This Boy” for its “chains of pandiatonic clusters”....
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