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...Henry ManceFT chief features writer Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is a fascinating depiction of Martin Luther King Jr — his brilliance, his flaws and his many shameless opponents....
...The original Whiteley’s – designed by John Belcher and John James Joass, partners in a dignified architectural practice known for its rather ponderous public buildings – was considered at its 1911 launch...
...Wind swirls around her, she loosens her hair and gossamer shawl, her cheeks colour as she turns to feed Zeus’s eagles — a reference to her relationship with the future king, George IV....
...A Life of Picasso, Volume IV: The Minotaur Years 1933-1943by John Richardson, Jonathan Cape £35/Knopf $40 Picasso in his 50s, obsessed with his self-image as the mythic minotaur, trampling sacrificial victims...
...The 10-year-old Richard II’s coronation was stage-managed by his uncle John of Gaunt (improbably represented by Shakespeare as the salt of Albion’s earth)....
...In the BBC interview he cited the Shakespeare plays Henry IV and V and the changes in the young King Henry V as he becomes monarch....
...Jordan had a long relationship with the king’s brother, the Duke of Clarence, later William IV, bearing him 10 little FitzClarences before being discarded....
...She succeeds Barry Meyers, who is leaving for a job outside banking....
...Read John Thornhill’s opinion piece here and Henry Sanderson’s excellent Big Read here about the Clean Energy 2.0 investment boom. The Internet of (Five) Things 1....
...He went on to play many of the Bard’s greatest characters, often for the RSC: Macbeth, Prospero, Lear, Shylock, Iago and, in 2014, Falstaff in Henry IV....
...“Investors are starting to appreciate that there is insufficient mine capacity to enable rapid transition to a more environmentally-conscious global economy,” said John Meyer, a partner at brokerage SP Angel...
...Among biographies to watch for are John Richardson’s A Life of Picasso Volume IV (Jonathan Cape, March), which takes us to the “minotaur years” of the 1930s, the Spanish civil war and surrealist poetry....
...(I had to look them up: they are George IV and generals Charles Napier and Henry Havelock, who both served in India.)...
...Raghuram Rajan, winner in 2010 for Fault Lines, and shortlisted in 2019 for The Third Pillar, suggested Titan: The Life of John D....
...“It’s the kind of result that has geologists jumping up and down,” said John Meyer, head of research at London-based broker SP Angel....
...Meanwhile, Edward IV was enjoying his new status....
...The theatre launches its summer season with a marathon run of Shakespeare’s great history plays, Henry IV (1 and 2) and Henry V....
...The ambitious absolutists Henry VIII and Charles I had enticed Holbein and Van Dyck from Europe....
...Meyers In response to Bernie Sanders exits just as big government returns: “Ed, I take issue with your suggestion that [Bernie] Sanders has moved the Democrats to the left....
...Henry Sanderson...
...“It’s been promoted on all the chat sites, the bulletin boards, Proactive Investors — there’s been significant promotion to retail investors,” said John Meyer, analyst at SP Angel brokerage....
...henry.mance@ft.com...
...Richard is at first a capricious, rather distant monarch; when challenged by the rebel Bolingbroke, he crumbles and cedes the throne to his opponent (as Henry IV), discovering in this final phase of his...
...IV, play “who can beg longest on their knees”....
...Prince Charles cited Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part Two — a text more relevant to him than to anyone else. In the play, feckless heir Hal is crowned Henry V and ditches his friends....
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