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...The novel, taking its title from a line in Wilfred Owen’s savagely ironic “Dulce et Decorum Est”, traces the awakening of Kyr’s conscience and her efforts to shake off the chains of a martial, heteronormative...
...the first freestanding steel-framed building in London), walk down Piccadilly and turn right into Half Moon Street, the home of Bertie Wooster, Algernon Moncrieff (in The Importance of Being Earnest) and Wilfred...
...Three years later, he began his long association with the finance ministry, first serving as junior minister to Antoine Pinay and Wilfred Baumgartner and then, at the age of 35, stepping into their shoes...
...James MacMillan’s All the Hills and Vales Along, here getting its premiere, is the most substantial of the tributes so far....
...Like so many people, my sense of the first world war came from Wilfred Owen and All Quiet on the Western Front. Now, Wilfred Owen’s poems are remarkable....
...“This novelty’s never going to wear off,” Aaron told James. “I’m going to feel like this forever.”...
...Until 1972, she was James, married and father to five children. But she had known by the age of four that she was in “the wrong body”, and, at the age of 45, an operation in Casablanca put her right....
...Music by Elgar, Parry and Vaughan Williams, readings from the Bible and the poetry of Wilfred Owen will reverberate through Westminster Abbey, part of a service echoed in Anglican churches across the country...
...Ethiopian emperor Tewodros; Duncan Cameron appointed in 1861 and whose imprisonment by the same Tewodros led to one of the most bizarre and costly British military expeditions of the imperial age; and Wilfred...
...In early 1950, the great desert explorer and writer Wilfred Thesiger set out to climb the Jebel Akhdar, an abrupt wall of mountains and isolated plateaux in the interior of Oman....
...and Derngate, Northampton Pat Barker’s novel trilogy, adapted by Nicholas Wright with skill and sensitivity, takes honour seriously in its account of the friendship between poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred...
...Boys of my generation grew up knowing that Commander James Bond (navy) was superior to Squadron Leader James Bigglesworth (RAF) who, in turn, outranked Captain Bulldog Drummond, of the army....
...Harold James points to a long list of suggestive comparisons....
...Last week a new oratorio by British composer James McCarthy premiered at London’s Barbican Centre....
...For Britons, the conflict’s horrors are most sharply evoked in poetry and paint: the verses of Wilfred Owen, say, or the nightmarish landscapes of Paul Nash....
...To Auster, Coetzee expresses an interest in the psychoanalyst Wilfred Bion, who had treated the young Beckett for panic attacks and depression at the Tavistock Clinic in London....
...The E Tautz show was inspired by Sir Wilfred Thesiger, “the quintessential English explorer”....
...Wilfred [Blunt] could only take me seriously as some kind of mad connoisseur. My parents didn’t take my art seriously.”...
...September 9 From Mr James Wyburd: Costs and taxes mean the take is not worth the effort From Mr Chris Nicholson: Plugging that £2.7bn hole From Prof Robert Rowthorn: Efficient use of taxation From Mr...
...The animal’s trainer tells her that the horse is slowing down, infuriating Cynthia, who also expends energy repelling advances from a visiting Brit, Wilfred Cates-Darby....
...On June 11 1943, the author’s grandfather, Acting Squadron Leader James Eric Swift and his crew took off in a Lancaster bomber as part of an RAF raid on Munster in Germany....
...(What a gift to fiction-writers that poor old man was, inspiring figures as disparate as MR James, Somerset Maugham and Jake Arnott.)...
...It was as James Morris in 1953 that the writer ran off with one of the century’s greatest scoops, reporting the first ascent of Everest on the eve of the coronation in London....
...They included Sir Wilfred Thesiger, then 88, and the charming octogenarian Rupert Harding-Newman, veteran of the Long Range Desert Group in the second world war....
...Wilfred Rhodes, the cricketer, once said, in pure Yorkshire: “Coometh t’hour, coometh t’man.”...
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