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...The buyer (by telephone) of the 792-page sheepskin Codex Sassoon was Alfred Moses, a Washington DC lawyer, who has donated it to the ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv....
...There they were converted to Christianity, dressed in western clothes and presented to King William as a curiosity....
...The founding fathers have been turned into a collective Moses with his tablets. Which gets me back to Samuel Alito’s leaked draft ruling to abolish Roe vs Wade....
...The last music I downloaded was the album Battle Lines by the Canadian electronic duo Bob Moses. It’s a mix of wistful lyrics, pop beats and synths....
...The title of which William Faulkner novel is a phrase from Macbeth with two definite articles added?...
...In March, Artists at the Center invites leading dancers to create a programme of their choice: Tiler Peck, a principal at New York City Ballet, starts off with works by William Forsythe, Alonzo King and...
...“There had been other women with me at Boulanger’s Wednesday afternoons in Paris, and we had women composers in London, like Elisabeth Lutyens, Priaulx Rainier, Grace Williams and Elizabeth Maconchy, my...
...Guest performers include Beyoncé’s husband, Jay-Z, Pharrell Williams, Nigerian singer Yemi Alade and Beyoncé’s old Destiny’s Child colleague, Kelly Rowland....
...It is the Bronx of Francis Ford Coppola’s Godfather films, lives lived in the wounds cut by Robert Moses’ freeways....
...The power of the city has often arisen spontaneously, as Moses’ arch critic Jane Jacobs argued in The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)....
...And it’s superbly delivered by Paapa Essiedu (Moses) and Gershwyn Eustache Jnr (Kitch) in Indhu Rubasingham’s eloquently choreographed staging....
...The swirls of “Transcend” opened, “Subconscious Flirtations and Titillations” playfully lived up to its title and Croker established the minor-key mood of “Portrait of William” with three notes and a single...
...As much as I insist that Faiz cannot be translated, that he is Faiz only in Urdu, there is one translator who allowed English a glimpse, the way Moses was allowed a single, blistering sight of the Almighty...
...Sign up here with one click It is time to get our Rye Lane Shuffle on, in the words of Moses Boyd’s jazzy ode to the area....
...William Dalrymple Discovery: My favourite trip this year was a swing through southern India researching the final chapter of The Anarchy, my forthcoming book on the rise of the East India Company....
...All three are part of what can loosely be called the New London Jazz Scene, and have collaborated with such leading lights as saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings and drummer Moses Boyd....
...West of Eden contains testimony collected over decades from members of her family, the staff who worked for them, and many friends including Joan Didion, Gore Vidal, Warren Beatty, and the artist Ed Moses...
...Moses Brown, after whom Brown university is named, also participated in the slave trade, though he later became a prominent abolitionist....
...Players recalls Forty Million Dollar Slaves, written by William Rhoden of The New York Times a decade ago, about the struggles of black athletes....
...Was Housman thinking of Moses Jackson as he wrote this?...
...Black Moses, by Alain Mabanckou, translated by Helen Stevenson, Serpent’s Tail, RRP£14.99/New Press, RRP$23.95 The Man Booker International Prize-shortlisted novelist returns to the Congolese city of Pointe-Noire...
...Nicola Barker’s new novel, ‘The Cauliflower®’, will be published by William Heinemann in April Illustration by Luke Waller...
...There is little fine art, although pieces by the American folk artist Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses will feature....
...Shakespeare, Chaucer, Newton, William Blake, TS Eliot, Ezra Pound. Peter Ackroyd has committed his life to the documentation of other lives....
...As the economist William Baumol put it 30 years ago, the prices of paintings “float more or less aimlessly . . . exacerbated by the activities of those who treat such art objects as ‘investments’”....
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