Hints and tips:
...“Pilgrimage”, which is narrated in the first person, is a loosely fictionalised account of a then 14-year-old Sontag’s meeting with Thomas Mann in his Pacific Palisades home — one of the “gods of high culture...
...Alejandro Nunez, an analyst at Moody’s, said in a note that the results “confirm our view that the company is progressing well so far with its integration of Alcatel-Lucent”....
...Cortez was not the first European to see the Pacific (it was another conquistador, Vasco Núñez de Balboa, who led the expedition — Keats blundered)....
...About Wheeldon’s fascinating Electric Counterpoint and the Ek monstrosity (made watchable only by admirable performances from Thomas Whitehead and Bennet Gartside) I hope to report next week....
...Thomas Trotter was a magnificent soloist in Poulenc’s organ concerto to which Voluntaries, leech-like, clings. Tel +44 20 7304 4000...
...Howells is a touching, bright-footed Alain, and David Drew makes Farmer Thomas a bluff and sympathetic figure....
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