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...Not since Leonard Bast, the impoverished autodidact killed by a collapsing bookshelf in EM Forster’s Howard’s End, had household furniture been used so murderously in English literature to symbolise the...
...Adams and Short, the two all-time greats of English chess whose achievements in a more competitive era have outpaced the 19th-century icons Howard Staunton and Joseph Blackburne, made the difference as their...
...I’m more of an Elmore Leonard guy.” I wonder out loud if there are any Elmore Leonard books on Audible (there are several) and whether Barrett would choose to listen to them....
...Letter in response to this article: Court opioids ruling has read-across for gambling / From Leonard Aconsky, New York, NY, US...
...lust to own objects that had been touched by my characters began as a necessary gathering of materials – there were many writers: Gregory Corso, Axel Jensen, Gordon Merrick and, briefly, Elizabeth Jane Howard...
...But Donald Rosenfeld, former president of Merchant Ivory Productions, which made period classics such as Howards End starring Emma Thompson, feels audiences will want serious films....
...It was also a time when upwardly aspiring members of the working class such as Leonard Bast in EM Forster’s Howards End hoped that a diet of Ruskinian thought and the religion of art would lift them out...
...from the war in Europe, including Benjamin Britten and WH Auden, found themselves sharing chaotic digs with the stripper Gypsy Rose Lee and a stream of visiting American luminaries, not least the young Leonard...
...The central theme this year is “Britten and America”, a choice broad enough to embrace both the centenary of Leonard Bernstein and works that Britten composed during the controversial period he spent as...
...Do we really need another Howards End (BBC iPlayer and Sundays, BBC1) after Merchant-Ivory’s definitive 1992 film version?...
...his chief protagonists, the flamboyant, rash, but hugely engaging Larsen, played with great wit and panache by Toby Stephens, and the wise, long-suffering Juul, played with infinite composure by Lydia Leonard...
...In the past decade or so he has pretty much proved his case, and begins this season by commissioning Drew McOnie to direct and choreograph Leonard Bernstein’s 1944 breakthrough, On the Town....
...Her father — who left home before she was born — was the renowned violinist Leonard Friedman....
...For an encore, Cocker covered Leonard Cohen’s “Paper Thin Hotel”, a homage to his idol but also a gesture to their shared philosophical spirit. It’s great to have him back. jarviscocker.net...
...Mr Howard previously worked for Market Tech, a London-based property group....
...The medieval stone shell of St Leonard in Old Warden is crammed with such varnished bric-a-brac of centuries past, the whim of a former patron, Lord Ongley, who decorated the church in the 1840s....
...Elsewhere among the new listings, Stuart Howard bought into over-fifties holiday and insurance group Saga last Friday at 177p – below the listing price of 185p....
...Fflur Wyn and Yvonne Howard also contribute strongly. Grange Park’s La traviata underlines the danger of competing with mainstream companies in standard repertoire....
...The boy in question is idealistic Leonard, Edith’s clever son who heads off as part of the British delegation to Versailles with very firm ideas....
...Her husband Leonard created their plot, which was recreated and recorded by Zoob while a National Trust tenant there....
...Whatever It Is, I Don’t Like It, by Howard Jacobson, Bloomsbury RRP£18.99, 368 pages...
...Two ships, The Wasp and The Neverland, set sail, the former with pirates and the latter commanded by Lord Leonard Aster, whose Queen Victoria-approved mission involves a chest full of Starstuff: a kind of...
...former Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Daniel Daianu (Romania), Former Finance Minister George David (Cyprus/Greece), Chairman of the Board of Directors of Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company Howard...
...(The novel’s influence on Howard Jacobson’s The Finkler Question is unmissable.) Like Catch-22, the novel subsists on one joke....
...Gilligan also likes Leon Howard-Spink....
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