Hints and tips:
...Elsewhere, signs in some hotel windows said “Gentiles only”, and one advertisement boasted “Always a view, never a Jew”....
...Comparing Roth’s work with that of other giants of postwar American literature such as John Updike and Don DeLillo, Bailey declares that it “stands the best chance of enduring”....
...My style icon is the actor John Cassavetes. He had a kind of fragility, as well as an elegant and intelligent sensibility....
...Meanwhile, Bess’s elder sister Evelyn (Winona Ryder) takes a shine to a prominent widowed rabbi Lionel Bengelsdorf (John Turturro)....
...“The PD lost its identity,” said Ms Gentile. “They didn’t just lose the workers, they lost the middle class,” she said....
...The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World , by Catherine Nixey, Macmillan, RRP£20, 352 pages John Cornwell is author of ‘The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession’ (Profile...
...In Gentile Bellini’s painting “Miracle of the Cross at the Bridge of San Lorenzo” (1500), a black man in a loincloth is poised to dive into the canal to recover the True Cross....
...Buruma rightly observes that it “is easy to curl one’s lip from the relative safety of a different age”, recognising that his grandparents’ desire to melt into the gentile world might be seen as “a form...
...The Republic sent Gentile Bellini, whose “Portrait of Mehmed II”, following Venetian dogal depictions, emphasises the sultan’s princely dignity by an illusionistic architectural framing of golden arch and...
...“When had so much dirty Jewish laundry ever been displayed before so many Gentiles?” Pierpont asks. Roth was now not merely famous, but notorious....
...This was the home town of at least three of Jesus’s disciples (Peter, Andrew and Philip), and possibly also of James and John....
...Gentile da Fabriano was of the latter camp....
...But John’s high Christology was by no means the norm....
...It cut off access to the gentile world for working Jews, making them more vulnerable to later Aktions. Horst’s improbable reaction?...
...Smoked salmon sandwiches for lunch every day: how was that going to square me with the gentiles?...
...In her debut, Offcomer (2001), she portrayed a Jewish girl adopted by gentiles, an outsider menaced by secrets relating to her mother....
...Geese were as much part of the life and folklore of the shtetl as the gentile village....
...This kind of card is also undeniably conservative, a wintry version of John Major’s famous definition of Englishness (in fact lifted from George Orwell’s “The Lion and the Unicorn”), involving old maids...
...Mrs Thatcher’s successor, John Major, also kept him at arm’s length....
...Henry Hitchings is the author of ‘The Secret Life of Words: How English Became English’ (John Murray)...
...Dragon” portrays a saint whose flat contours are indisputably Greek while the horse, his crested neck virtually swivelling out of the frame, enjoys a realism similar to the equines of the Tuscan artist Gentile...
...Sitting in a brand new, purpose-built museum of blinding whiteness and searing clarity by architect John Marquette, it houses a powerful collection of mostly Latin contemporary works....
...John Banville is author of ‘The Sea’ (Picador)...
...Ernest Hemingway, Colette, Queen Alexandra, Claude Monet, John F Kennedy and Gertrude Stein all posed with the birds....
...Gays, gypsies and the disabled should be included, it was decided; political prisoners and “righteous gentiles” who helped Jews should not....
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