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...Best of all was a sojourn in Al-Andalus: Carlos Cano’s song about the last Arab ruler of Seville, al-Mu’tamid ibn Abbad, was followed by a setting of the poet-king’s own farewell to the Alcazar and to the...
...When children’s TV and theatre writer Jeffrey Kindley was six years old, he became obsessed with Amahl and the Night Visitors, an opera that tells the story of a young boy who meets the three kings one winter...
...Its market dominance seemed so great that Forbes ran a cover story on the company asking “Can anyone catch the cell phone king?” The same year, Apple launched the iPhone....
...He volunteered for the movement in Washington, DC, then Atlanta, where King was based....
...The poet Horace, writing in the first century BC, observed: “Captive Greece took captive her fierce conqueror, and introduced her arts into rude Latium.”...
...Over the tunnel’s entrance from the garden Pope placed a block of stone inscribed with words from an Epistle by the poet Horace....
...A grammarian named Vilgard had been visited in his dreams by Virgil, Horace and Juvenal. The ancient poets had revealed that he was destined to share in their fame and glory....
...The author entertainingly contrasts the undisciplined Sassoons with the strict approach of Kadoorie and his sons Lawrence and Horace....
...For someone returning to Paris after years away, what is striking about France is not the ambition of a president who compares his role to that of the king of the gods — nothing peculiarly French there in...
...In 1688, the British had a Dutch king — William III — who, with his wife Mary, had come to replace the reviled James II during the Glorious Revolution....
...“The Russians Are Coming” inspired at least 50 further reggae covers, including a vocal arrangement by Horace Andy, a ska interpretation by Rico and a dub by King Tubby....
...In the 1860s, newspaper editor Horace Greeley popularised the command to “Go west, young man”....
...After seeing his two brothers slain, Publius Horatius nonetheless emerged victorious, killing all three opponents and ensuring victory for the Roman king Tullus Hostilius....
...On the announcement of the new king George II in 1727, he deliberately wailed louder than the other boys at Eton for the loss of the old king — a piece of theatre from a prime minister’s son....
...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”....
...Its Adam and Eve heralded the recovery of paradise by the King and Queen’s union as Christ and the Virgin, bearing paradisiacal roses of red and white with symbols of fertility....
...Church explains with exemplary clarity how the charter emerged from the turmoil of King John’s reign....
...Smollett has Clinker quote Horace, a reminder that the middle-aged have been moaning about things getting worse for thousands of years....
...For instance, in the mid-18th century, Horace Walpole described Euston as: “One of the most admired seats in England . . ....
...King’s Cross, Waterloo and Silicon Roundabout are providing vigorous competition....
...In Michael Grandage’s King Lear at the Donmar Warehouse in 2010, one of Derek Jacobi’s daughters was black – and only one critic bothered to mention it....
...His theatrical portraits of theatrical portrayals – David Garrick as Macbeth, William Powell as Posthumous in Cymbeline, Thomas King as Touchstone – are the height of staginess; even “Mr and Mrs Garrick...
...The denial of human dignities to an enemy or presumed enemy, the short-circuiting of legal process and normal burial, may seem like strength; I tend to see them as what another classical poet, the Roman Horace...
...But Horace Brodzky, mutual friend of artist and sitter, claimed on the other hand that the “entirely pornographic” piece was carved “by way of disapproval and in contempt of Pound”....
...Along came William Kent who, in Horace Walpole’s words “leaped the fence, and saw that all nature was a garden”....
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