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“... was his rejection of the name his parents had given him: from his teens he called himself Richard. A sparkling-eyed poet who played rugby at school, he caught the eye of many women. In his youth he had a taste for velvet jackets and bow ties; he had studied some Greek, and relished the Romantic Hellenism of Keats’s Endymion, whose famous first line ...”

“... purity and hygiene’; ‘mass diffusion’, an interesting section, concerned not with water pipes but with the media and with contrasts in the treatment of themes concerning water in different media, and with the role of hospitals and of schools; and ‘the effects of the conquest, the case of France’, which ends with a useful summary, ‘water in ...”

“... in full Scottish paraphernalia – kilts, sporrans, white-and-red chequered gaiters, drums and pipes – appeared over a hill ... Around their tunics of khaki drill were navy blue cummerbunds, and on each head sat a tall red fez with a black tassel ... we might well have thought they were nothing but ghosts ... Except that the music kept on for miles later ...”

“... appear in texts from the period already carry a whiff of nostalgia. But a new book co-authored by Richard Rastall and Andrew Taylor sheds some light on the ways they worked and lived. Rastall and Taylor begin by explaining what minstrels were (no simple task). The word comes from the Anglo-Norman menestral, which could refer to a travelling musician or ...”

“... connects Los Angeles proper to the even more suburban San Fernando Valley, much was written about Richard Meier’s architecture and Robert Irwin’s gardens. Remarkably little was written about the parking garage, though it’s the first structure you encounter on arriving at the Getty. (Theoretically, you could take a bus there, but this is, after all, a ...”

“... sometimes thought he played the piano the way he played tennis: to win. Edward’s study, full of pipes and fountain-pens, apparently just the den of an old-fashioned man of letters. Well, he was an old-fashioned man of letters – it’s just that that wasn’t all he was. Beleaguered, passionate political days in that same building when it looked as if ...”

“... analysis, conspiracy theory theory. For a peerless example, see Lyndon LaRouche Jr on Daniel Pipes’s Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes from in Executive Intelligence Review: it is fair to say that the phenomenon within manifest human mental behaviour which corresponds to the witnessed act of defecation by the ...”

“... way – to a liberal democracy whose unfolding was happily resumed at the turn of the century: Richard Pipes and Martin Malia the emblematic spokesmen of each. Furman’s construction avoided these alternatives. The strength of his conception of a ‘spiral’ peculiar to Russia was to link repetition and innovation in a single historical movement ...”

“... Dayton was as rushed and cack-handed as Berlin – it will hold for the time being, but the pipes are already beginning to leak again. Although, in this latest round, the Macedonian Question has not re-opened wounds on anything like the Bosnian scale, the territory still contains great potential for violence. Yet the nature of the problem has changed a ...”

“... least one admiral. Symons found that an obsession with rain was nothing new. In the 17th century, Richard Townley, who lived in Burnley, built a contrivance of pipes leading from his roof to his study, which enabled him to measure rainfall daily for the best part of 28 years without leaving the house. The immediate cause of ...”

“... Germany has less interest in oil contracts. Asked about the ‘incentives’ the US was offering, Richard Boucher, a state department spokesman, said that Baker could be ‘very effective in that regard’ because he was ‘working with all the tools at his disposal in the US government’. And so on 22 December the contract bidding was suspended; the ...”

“... defying body and convention to ‘soar like an eagle’ in the way of the blessed inebriate in Richard Thompson’s song ‘God Loves a Drunk’ (‘His shouts and his curses they are just hymns and praises/To kick-start his mind now and then’)? Timothy Neat writes not in order to leave his late friend in a heap on the floor, least of all the floor of ...”

“... Marcel Raymond, and then soon after, of Georges Poulet, Albert Béguin, Jean Rousset, Jean-Pierre Richard, Jean Starobinski and Gaston Bachelard, I am reminded of a passage in George Eliot’s Middlemarch. Marcel Raymond I read first in the English translation, published in 1950, of De Baudelaire au Surréalisme. It became immediately a precious book for ...”

“... a study of Dylan’s lyrics.1 Day was on a panel discussing Dylan’s purported sexism with Richard Brown (Leeds University, Joyce), Neil Corcoran (Sheffield University, modern poetry) and Kath Burlinson, who has just stopped being half of the cabaret act ‘The Wild Girls’ and has settled down to do a PhD in 19th-century women’s poetry. Victorian ...”

“... Ionce​ asked the great historian Richard Southern whether he would like to have met any of the medieval saints and churchmen about whom he wrote so eloquently. He gave a cautious reply: ‘I think they probably had very bad breath.’ He may have been right about that, but it would be wrong to infer that this was something which didn’t bother them ...”