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...Less Is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer, Little, Brown £16.99/$29, 272 pages Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café...
...It also provides a breakdown of the era’s music, with songs by James Brown, Jimi Hendrix and Aretha Franklin. In short, there’s a lot going on....
...I think of Brown’s dissections of Germaine Greer (“Why am I the only person in the world who eats rice?”)...
...Natasha and Lilah on YouTube —Read Natasha’s piece for the FT, America the Beautiful: three generations in the struggle for civil rights —Read the FT review for Memorial Drive, written by playwright Bonnie Greer...
...She distrusted Vegemite, that popular brown unguent with which all Australians anointed their toast, believing erroneously that it originated in Sydney. We favoured Marmite instead....
...There is definitely too much emphasis on the persona and not enough on the leadership behaviour,” said Lindred Greer, faculty director at the Sanger Leadership Center at the University of Michigan....
...Sarah Greer, who has also researched the phenomenon, says that vocal fry is a form of voice lowering, and used by men and women to project masculinity and “coolness”....
...My personal style signifiers are linen shirts – from Oliver Spencer, Orlebar Brown, Frescobol Carioca, clothes stalls on Patmos......
...Win Thin, global head of currency strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman, reckons “nothing really concrete was agreed on”....
...Oh I need some air . . . ” Her feminism has its roots in 1970s punk, informed by the wail of Poly Styrene, the poems of Sylvia Plath and the theory of Germaine Greer....
...Housman Country: Into the Heart of England, by Peter Parker, Little, Brown, RRP£25, 544 pages English Voices: Lives, Landscapes, Laments, by Ferdinand Mount, Simon & Schuster, RRP£25, 512 pages Island...
...Barnes is not far behind me, dressed elegantly in a brown mackintosh, Margaret Howell dark checked suit with a blue shirt....
...The scale of the problem was underlined by Terry Greer-King, the UK and Ireland director of cyber security at Cisco, who disclosed that the US networks equipment company fends off between 1.5m and 2m cyber...
...Brown Greer was criticised for being slow to detect a potential conflict of interest on its own staff....
...She expects to travel to the US frequently and has already started giving speeches internationally; at a recent event in Doha she bumped into Brown....
...Familiar heads included Carl Jung, Bertrand Russell, Isaiah Berlin, Germaine Greer and Richard Dawkins....
...Symeon Brown, a youth leader with the group Haringey Young People Empowered, agreed, saying: “It’s a very complex picture. Fundamentally, it’s a refusal to consent to the system....
...Bonnie Greer, author. Peter Griffiths, chief executive, Principality Building Society. David Henderson, managing director, Tobermore Concrete Products. James Herbert, author....
...Business and Employment Editor LD - Lord Davies, former trade minister and chairman of the women in the boardroom review AF - Anna Ford, former broadcaster and non-executive director of J Sainsbury and N Brown...
...Gordon Brown 14. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini 15. Michael Collins, Irish revolutionary 16. Nicolas Sarkozy 17. Vladimir Putin 18. Gandhi 19. Malcolm X 20. Charles de Gaulle 21. Queen Victoria 22....
...David Greer, a Shell executive, gave a lot of pleasure to a lot of people with his leaked e-mail that ordered his underlings to “lead me, follow me or get out of my way”....
...“I had a very good English teacher called Eric Brown. He bought in the record which had Robert Frost reading “After Apple Picking”....
...The principal attributes are a firmly sung Herod from Ragnar Ulfung, an astonishing 79 years old, and Greer Grimsley’s Jokanaan, sung with dark, resonant tones....
...At least they haven't got Germaine Greer. Campbell: Er . . . Blair: What, they've got Germaine - that woman off Celebrity Big Brother? Christ, we'll have no voters left....
...Germaine Greer? When you hear the Pope talking about Heaven you don't want any nagging doubts that he might be referring to some nightclub under Charing Cross station....
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