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...martin.wolf@ft.com Follow Martin Wolf with myFT and on Twitter Letter in response to this column: Slogans are not enough for Biden and Johnson voters / From Belle von der Goltz, Needham, MA, US...
...This is the horror of films from Sam Fuller’s Shock Corridor to Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island....
...Activist Robert “Bob” Moses was less well known than Martin Luther King Jr, but the New York maths teacher profoundly shaped the 20th-century movement to secure the civil rights of black Americans....
...In the 1970s, Chicago Imagist painters, including Jim Nutt and Gladys Nilsson, were especially excited by the drawings of local autodidact Joseph Yoakum and Mexican farmer Martín Ramírez, who was interned...
...The 19th century newspaper editor Horace Greeley urged young Americans to “Go West” to the unsettled frontier....
...Victoria married for the third time to British banker John Martin. The sisters are buried in England. Janet Tavakoli President, Tavakoli Structured Finance, Chicago, IL, US...
..., Apple’s marketing chief, is said to own a McLaren, and Eddy Cue, its services head, sits on the board of Ferrari, while top designer Sir Jonathan Ive has expressed his fondness for Bentleys and Aston Martins...
...Jason Hirschhorn, who now runs the MediaREDEF news letter, first met James Murdoch at Horace Mann School in New York. “His first day on the bus he had a shaved head and an earring,” he tells me....
...Horace Walpole sipped sherbet from his Strawberry Hill terrace as he gazed down his Thames vista to the sailors in Twickenham, his “seaport in miniature”....
...The likes of Audi, Porsche and Aston Martin are pressing into Tesla territory, with fast-charging, high-performance and zero-emission vehicles of their own....
...In this edition, almost as fascinating as Horace’s lines are some of the collected translators: Milton, Byron, even Elizabeth I....
...Smollett has Clinker quote Horace, a reminder that the middle-aged have been moaning about things getting worse for thousands of years....
...mutters Martins, who clearly has never heard of the modernist literary technique pioneered by James Joyce and Virginia Woolf....
...The company is helping to renovate Chatsworth House and Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole’s Gothic pile. Sales are up £2m to £11m in the year to March....
...What this memo shows is that two decades at Accenture have a more potent effect on befuddling the mind than three years of Aeschylus and Horace ever had on sharpening it....
...Martin: “And? Did the heavens open up?” Scruggs: “My brother Horace said I ran through the house saying, ‘I got it! I got it!’ They didn’t know what I had but…“ (Big laugh.)...
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