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...This rousing and wise work is as much part of the world’s heritage as Virgil’s Aeneid or Shakespeare’s sonnets....
...Since the death of George Floyd at the hands of police on May 25, hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets to protest the racism prevalent across America and beyond....
...The best book I’ve read in the past year is Finding Your True North by Bill George, a businessman and Harvard Business School professor....
...With Ghesquière helming womenswear and Virgil Abloh menswear, Amfitheatrof provides a female point of view alongside two prominent male designers....
...Sqirl, 720 Virgil Avenue #4 (+1323-284 8147; sqirlla.com) An unforgettable place I’ve travelled to in the past year is the Galápagos Islands, where we travelled around on a skippered motor cruiser with...
...Guest dancer Virgil Gadson rounded out the performance with a subtle and thrilling display of body-popping moves and silent movie references....
...Even before misguided restorers added in St George and the Dragon in the 1930s, this was a baffling painting....
...Ruchir Sharma Author of ‘The Rise and Fall of Nations’ George HW Bush has been described as America’s best one-term president, a notion reinforced by Jon Meacham’s biography Destiny and Power (Random...
...Superficially the work of George Richmond, another Ancient, is closer to Blake’s drawing style, but Palmer’s debt runs deeper. His recollection of knowing Blake, many years on, is evocative....
...At its best, furniture is pure sculpture, and the George II mahogany commode here, possibly designed by the great William Kent, is just about as good as English furniture gets (£800,000-£1.2m)....
...Everybody knows Virgil. I think the world of Virgil. But a vote for Virgil is a vote for Obama.”...
...After a few pianistic flourishes by Virgil Thomson, dedicated to the memory of a departed board member, the focus fell on The Migration of Lost Souls by Narong Prangcharoen....
...Not for the first time, my Virgil explains the situation through analogy....
...James, however, had a sense of what was and was not appropriate as the domain of Art; a sense that Defoe, or Dickens, or Thackeray, or Trollope, or George Eliot, would have rejected....
...She is a stunning presence in her tightfitting gowns (costumes by Virgil C. Johnson). Thomas Hampson’s Macbeth is no less effective visually and vocally more polished....
...George Orwell would have been proud....
...Virgil knew of the lake....
...There was something quite romantic, for me as a 15-year-old schoolboy, about parsing Virgil by candlelight, but I suppose it was rather a grim time for most adults....
...This operatic treatment of Books 1, 2 and 4 of Virgil’s Aeneid is no longer than a long Wagner opera, but in the theatre it can seem longer....
...Works by, among others, Virgil Thomson, Aaron Copland, Roy Harris and Lou Harrison bore him out, and two composers-in-residence, Stephen Scott and Curt Cacioppo, supplied newer music in similar vein....
...Second, an Obama presidency will give hope to an America that, during the eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency, began doubting itself and its famous “mission”....
...Boris is no boffin Boris Johnson may be well-versed in Latin – he dropped a bit of Virgil’s Aeneid into his first mayor’s Question Time....
...One, “George and the Dragon”, consists of sections of robust, terracotta-coloured domestic piping which writhes and snakes along, catching up – or entwining with – objects as it goes....
...Tory attitude to the countryside as old-fashioned and feudalistic, suggesting that with their own, Whiggish prescription for the landscape garden they were honouring the ancient precedents of Pliny and Virgil...
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