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...Between Robert Moses and Rudy Giuliani, much of New York is the fruit of Republicanism. Samuel Johnson was a Tory. There is no conceptual oddity here....
...edwin.heathcote@ft.com Letter in response to this column: Parkies are ‘the world’s only harmless police’ / From Geoff Smith, Huddersfield, W Yorks, UK...
..., she said, 'Moses led us throughout the wilderness for forty years then plopped us down in the one place in the Middle East where there isn't any oil'....
...That calculated spirit of levitation was everywhere in the sprawling complex of the Fair, the pet project of the omnipotent parks commissioner Robert Moses, whose earlier attempt in 1939 had been inconvenienced...
...Gathering Blossoms Under Fire, by Alice Walker, W&N, RRP£18.99/Atria, RRP$30 (September) Extracts from 50 years of journals and letters by the author of The Color Purple....
...to muse on natural phenomena and perception, as in the pairing of dark and light in “Shade and Darkness – The Evening of the Deluge”, “Light and Colour (Goethe’s Theory) – The Morning after the Deluge – Moses...
...George H.W....
...It was a time when swathes of that part of New York lay in ruins, a legacy of Robert Moses’ road-building programme....
...By origin, he is about as far from a George W. Bush Republican as can be. A working-class Catholic, he was the first in his family to graduate from college....
...Think of Grandma Moses sharing an easel with J.M.W. Turner....
...“Crossing the Brook”, a Devonshire landscape in Italianate classical style, based on a print of Claude’s “Landscape with Moses Saved from the Water”, joins Claude’s original, visiting from Madrid’s Prado...
...Croakey Moses....
...“My sense is that Japan will be more of a demanding ally in the future,” said Dennis Wilder, former President George W. Bush’s top Asia adviser....
...Later he hit upon a phrase to explain his choice: “Try to imagine you got a phone call from Moses.” … In the meantime, the calls are coming from headhunters....
...interview with the Financial Times that the Mr Obama’s Republican rival John McCain was seeing a “short-term blip” as a result of the advertising, including one that used the image of Charlton Heston as Moses...
...It was in this America where an Atlanta scholar named W.E.B....
...Without that as a means of financing consumption, the economy would barely have grown at 1 per cent a year under President George W. Bush....
...F.L.O.W. stands for For Love of Women, a title as tiresome as the piece....
...George W....
...Michael Moses, a New York University academic who with Jianping Mei compiles the Mei Moses art price indices, said that 6,800 guineas was a top price for the time, and equivalent to almost $35,000 today....
...There is no doubt that Mr Rove is a formidable operator who has proved his worth in mobilising the religious right, but secrets such as Samson’s hair, King David’s sling technique and Moses’ Red Sea skills...
...Why, for example, should some stutterers - W. Somerset Maugham, Henry James - stutter in one language, English in both cases, and not in others?...
...*Legacy: A Biography of Moses and Walter Annenberg, by Christopher Odgen...
...Moses and Michelangelo. Rod Steiger? Napoleon, W.C. Fields and Pope John XXIII. (What a threesome....
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