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...On the last page of Fareed Zakaria’s sweeping new book, Age of Revolutions, he quotes from Civilisation, the classic 1960s BBC series narrated by the art historian Kenneth Clark....
...“This could be the first $100mn sale,” says Stephanie Kroll at Compass Aspen estate agency....
...Until February 16; further information and tickets here ‘Manon’, Royal Opera House The Royal Ballet’s revival of Kenneth MacMillan’s gorgeous 1974 classic, with a score drawn from across Massenet’s work...
...the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What To Do About It by Richard V Reeves, Swift Press £20, 352 pages A History of Masculinity: From Patriarchy to Gender Justice by Ivan Jablonka, Allen Lane...
...This is well below 3 per cent, the level identified by ECB chief economist Philip Lane as consistent with the ECB’s 2 per cent inflation target....
...The author admires politicians from across the political divide and writes with approval of Conservative politicians such as Harold Macmillan, Michael Heseltine and Kenneth Baker, as much as he does Labour...
...The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern Worldby Adrian Wooldridge, Allen Lane £25/Skyhorse $24.99 In this elegant historical and philosophical defence of the notion that people should...
...My first experience of the political or social motivations behind street-naming was when Back Street became Swan Lane (after a pub) and the main road was fancifully relabelled Poplar Road....
...Crossing Continents: A History of Standard Chartered Bankby Duncan Campbell-Smith, Allen Lane £40 A heavyweight account of Chartered Bank and Standard Bank, which later combined to form Standard Chartered...
...Consider Barbara Bush, who was not a fashion plate but was a loyalist to fake pearls, specifically a triple-strand style designed by US costume jeweller Kenneth Jay Lane....
...The Jews and the Reformation, by Kenneth Austin, Yale University Press, RRP£30/RRP$45, 288 pages Austin’s examination of Christian attitudes to Jews during the Reformation throws fascinating new light on...
...Griffith, who specialises in 19th-century gentleman’s club furniture, picked up an interest in antiques from his father, the late actor Kenneth Griffith....
...Jay Lane, a version of which was worn by Carrie Bradshaw with a strapless black mini dress in an episode of Sex and the City....
...He changed his mind only when one friend told him that there might not be a second chance to get out, and another, the Nobel Prize-winning economist Kenneth Arrow, reassured him that leaving the EU would...
...But — and this is a joy of Tate Britain’s superb new retrospective — he also lingered in the slow lane, creating in malicious, insinuating, languorously detailed illustrations a procession of hermaphrodites...
...“[Mr Sanders] is not a Democrat,” said Kenneth Baer, a former Obama administration official and Democratic strategist. “Democrats don’t seem to be taking that seriously....
...Not least his battle with Edward Bramson, the activist investor with a 5.5 per cent stake who wants Barclays to stay in its lane....
...Hamilton Lane, a private equity investor, has hired Martina Schliemann as a principal and head of business development for Germany, Austria and Switzerland....
...Susie Boyt and Robin Lane Fox March 25, 4pmLincoln College: Oakeshott Room, £7-£12.50 Susie Boyt discusses her sixth novel Love & Fame with fellow FT columnist Robin Lane Fox....
...Shannon also encouraged experimentalism, an approach she inherited from her tutor Kenneth Webb at Belfast College of Art....
...“[This] will result in a robust supply chain and enable BASF to expand its production of battery materials on a global scale,” says Kenneth Lane, president of BASF’s catalysts division....
...We enjoyed a wonderful dinner at the Queen’s Head, an old pub down a back lane in Little Marlow that we shared with the village cricket team....
...In 1972, Jules Kroll took skills he had honed exposing those who demanded kickbacks from the family printing business to found what became Kroll Inc....
...Robin Lane Fox’s ‘Augustine: Conversions and Confessions’ (Allen Lane, £30) was published last month Photographs: Jason Ingram; Clay Perry...
...It is a good read but it comes close to the “Great Man” hypothesis, the Kenneth Clark rather than the John Berger approach to the urban....
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