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...But usually, as W.H. Auden put it, we tend not to “ask what doubtful act allows/ Our freedom in this English house,/ Our picnics in the sun”....
...Andrew Hill ——————————————- ECONOMICS Fragile by Design: The Political Origins of Banking Crises and Scarce Credit, by Charles W Calomiris and Stephen H Haber, Princeton University Press, RRP£24.95/$35...
...made, particularly by Conservatives, of the parallel between Nick Clegg’s victory in Manchester and that of Ross Perot, an independent candidate, in the first US presidential debate in 1992 against George H.W...
...W. H. Auden used to assert that a passion for Icelandic sagas was a prerequisite for a poetic life – a stipulation that almost put off the young Alan Bennett from pursuing a literary career....
...Gough Whitlam, Australian PM, 1972-75 99. George W. Bush 100. Fidel Castro...
...As George H.W.Bush, then director of the CIA and later US president, remarked after visiting Wilson in Downing Street: “Is that man crazy? He thinks there’s a bug behind all the pictures.”...
...Several writers, including H.G....
...Eliot of W.H. Auden’s famous dismissal of the 1930s as “a low dishonest decade”. But it is also a problem of sources....
...Sir John and George H.W. Bush both jointed Carlyle Group, the private equity firm. José María Aznar, the former Spanish prime minister, is a director of News International....
...Take that, Harold (Bloom). If you brought Stanley Wells’ Shakespeare to the present in H.G. Wells’ time machine and asked him “what are you doing, Will?”...
...As against this there arethe lines of the British gypsy poet, W. H. Davies: “What is this life iffull of care, we have no time to stand and stare?”...
...With its furrows, it is as memorable as W.H. Auden’s and Merce Cunningham’s – singular artists across whose faces time has passed like a glacier....
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