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...“We’d spend the days on the beach, and in the evenings we’d all pile into the car and tour the neon signs.”...
...There is a poignant moment when Miller junior is reading The Catcher in the Rye, only to be told he’d be far better off with The Grapes of Wrath....
...“I went with the worry that these little kids were going to be confused, that they’d be stressed....
...His hero is VS Pritchett, “the greatest of British short-story writers”....
...Grameen and its founder Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 and Pritchett has jokingly wondered if he might be awarded one for his suggestion....
...Good morning New York, FT ALPHAVILLE David has a look at a new paper from Larry Summers and Lance Pritchett on China’s growth rate....
...At dawn we’d drive over the Ebble, past the Yew Tree and up the long hill to Odstock Woods where we’d park beside a track that led eventually to an isolated (and, most probably, suspicious) house in a bosky...
...“I’d like us to be a much larger organisation. I think it’s not at all unreasonable to think we’ll be 50, 60 or 75 per cent larger in the next 10 years,” Mr Kim said....
...Lant Pritchett of Harvard famously described the phenomenon whereby the living standards of a few countries pulled away from the rest in the aftermath of the industrial revolution as “divergence, big time...
...The Dean, passing by, overheard one say to the other, “You wouldn’t think they’d let people like us in here.” The Dean, Jeffrey John, then made this the subject of a series of Holy Week meditations....
...“If we really wanted to improve economic science, we’d insist that every article be anonymous, rather than saying, ‘This guy is friends with so and so, and has a consulting gig.’”...
...“Literature is made out of the misfortunes of others,” VS Pritchett once wrote. “A large number of travel books fail because of the monotonous good luck of their authors.”...
...Jeremy Treglown is author of ‘VS Pritchett: A Life’ (Pimlico)...
...of where they now live – what Clemens and Pritchett call “income per natural” of Liberians....
...Amis claims a security guard searched his then six-year-old daughter and “f***-f****d” her fluffy toy duck....
...And suddenly I knew a fever of cupidity like nothing I’d felt before....
...Pritchett: A Working Life”....
...Pritchett and South Africa’s Es’kia Mphahlele....
...“In the old days we would say: ‘We're giving this much to this performance,' and we'd get a logo on it,” says Torquil Macleod, head of sponsorship for the Bank of Scotland, which traces its support for the...
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