Hints and tips:
...He’d see them in dreams....
...This being the season of redemption and resurrection, I thought I’d start with a couple of cheerier Brexit stories for once....
...“Elvis’s dad [Vernon Presley] came home one night talking about the most awful-looking furniture he’d ever seen,” says Marchese. “So Elvis, of course . . . bought it as a joke.”...
...The artefact acts as a negative image, the record of all that even a writer as prolix and candid as Whitman may have left unsaid....
...Emily Dickinson for poetry, she says, despite a tough head-to-head with Walt Whitman....
...This year’s edition of the Rencontres d’Arles photography festival is celebrating Mangolte’s career with a deep dive into her back catalogue of black-and-white photography....
...It was good to be reminded of Walt Whitman’s 1865 poetic elegy to Abraham Lincoln, “When Lilacs Last in the Doorway Bloom’d”, and be introduced to Robin Wall Kimmerer’s essay “The Consolation of Water Lilies...
...“I’d like visitors to feel the infinite space,” says Lee, “to breathe the same air as history has done.” ‘Requiem’ runs to September 30, leeufan-arles.org. The foundation is open Tuesday-Sunday...
...If anyone points it out, they seem to channel the spirit of poet Walt Whitman — Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself (I am large, I contain multitudes)....
...However Andrew Knight, chief executive of Care UK, a national group of 126 homes, said testing turnround times had improved considerably over the past two months “and right now I’d be happy to say we have...
...Vernon has taught me to fully embrace it. vernonfrancois.com In another life, I would have been a ballet dancer....
...I’d have found it difficult not to gush. I’d read her electric novel in a day and felt simultaneously affirmed and attacked by it....
...Even now you’d be hard pushed to attend a house clearance that did not involve a Vernon Ward print....
...When Vernon Kell co-founded MI6’s precursor in 1909, he identified as his ideal recruits men “who could make notes on their shirt cuff while riding on horseback”....
...He told the Financial Times in 2018: “We were reading the history of civilisation and my classmates, who’d gone to private schools and fine township high schools, were on chapter six; I was struggling to...
...And again, I think that makes sense, because I’d wager there is pent up demand for both business and leisure travel. And again, there is higher debt costs and dilution....
...“I’d never met anyone like her. As someone said, she had the most responsibility of anyone there, and also seemed to have the most fun.”...
...Often we, you know, we went to Christine Todd Whitman and we said, Liz Cheney is gonna be on the list. Would you be willing to write about her?...
...I’d used the site before but during lockdown, when I was starved of junk shop visits, it became a lifeline....
...He used the frontispieces of all these incredible books to make it – Shakespeare plays, Walt Whitman and Ruskin. I keep it in my living room....
...“But because the lockdown had just started, and everyone was worried about coming into other people’s homes, they said they’d try but they couldn’t guarantee it.”...
...Vernon Bogdanor (“A Senate trial is not the right answer to Trump”, Opinion, FT Weekend, January 16) writes that “it would be better to pardon him, allowing him to sink into disgraceful oblivion”....
...But don’t be put off by the escalator climb: you’d come to Open House for the soaring, light-suffused, wall-less space alone....
...As well as pounding the city pavement, Kazin reads Faulkner, Emerson, Whitman and Melville....
...“And if I’d had to close,” he says, “I’d just have found another way to open.”...
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