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“... To Frank Tipler, theology must either be nonsense or else become a branch of physical cosmology. Much to his astonishment, he tells us, strong signs of God and the hereafter can be seen in cosmology’s equations. Squeezed together by gravity, in some distant year the universe will be crushed down to a single point ...”

“... grandparents’ library, a room overshadowed by the menacing horns of long-dead Highland cattle. Frank Buckland’s multi-volume Curiosities of Natural History (1857-72) held a particular fascination for him – ‘I have the four little books in front of me now and, opening the first of them, it falls open at the chapter on rats that was my favourite ...”

“... as fluxgate gradiometry, which works by detecting local disturbances in the Earth’s magnetic field, but only gives you a two-dimensional image of underground structures sited fairly near the surface. Ground-penetrating radar, however, gives a three-dimensional image that includes deeper, older layers. The researchers – Lieven Verdonck, Alessandro ...”

“... demands of ‘hateful Ares’, as Homer calls him; but they knew that war as hell was the proper field of the heroic, and thus of narrative itself. The story of what happens in a football match today is our equivalent of yesterday’s battle; and it can be established later, as game, in the same heroic sequence. Who is taking care of the left flank? What is ...”

“... in 1977 to defend the right of National Socialist agitators, under the leadership of a man called Frank Collin, to march – swastikas flying – through a Jewish neighbourhood in Skokie, Illinois (a village just north of Chicago), where many Holocaust survivors lived. Faced with the prospect of a Nazi march, the Skokie village board had passed ordinances ...”

“... the gallery has to offer. A stone circle by Richard Long; an early To the Studios painting by Frank Auerbach. It’s difficult to say what these might mean in a Chinese context.This internationalism is new in China, according to the fair’s director, the painter Zhou Tiehai. It seems to indicate an openness to liberal market values, if not to Western ...”

“... man’s dream to bring Piggott and Francis together for the official version. Each king in his own field – they even raced against each other a few times, during Lester’s brief flirtation with the sticks – each a warm enthusiast for the other’s work. The result will undoubtedly be a bestseller and ought to have been an outstanding book as well. Yet it ...”

“... is going to be genuinely heartbroken. There’s always a gap. It was on Woman’s Hour. Poor old Frank.’ ‘I’ve never understood,’ said Midgley, ‘why you call him Frank. He’s my father.’ She looked at the 1953 Coronation Mug, wondering if it was altogether too recent an artefact to have on display. ‘He has a ...”

“... range of reference is similarly eclectic: he incorporates lyrics from Dizzee Rascal, K-Trap and Frank Ocean, as well as quotations from John Boughton’s Municipal Dreams: The Rise and Fall of Council Housing (2018), an essay published by the American Academy of Ophthalmology and a Netflix show about the interior designer Ilse Crawford. His own photographs ...”

“... rent, he meets on Mrs Eagleton’s doorstep Arthur Seldom, ‘one of the four leading minds in the field of logic’. Entering the house, Seldom and the narrator discover Mrs Eagleton’s corpse: having fallen asleep while playing a game of Scrabble against herself, she has been smothered with a pillow. Had her nose not been broken by the pressure, soaking the ...”

“... foreign cars, mock patriotism and advocate abortion and homosexuality on the other: so Thomas Frank argues in What’s the Matter with America? The main economic interest of populist conservatism is to get rid of the strong state, which taxes the population in order to finance regulatory interventions, and to introduce an economic programme whose slogan ...”

“... of John Goddard to lead the tour of England in 1957 over the obviously superior claims of Frank Worrell. This particular anomaly led directly to defeat, and had its share in the disaster at Edgbaston in the first test, when Ramadhin was required to bowl 98 successive overs while May and Cowdrey put on 411 for the fourth wicket. Sobers, who could bowl ...”

“... toward Robert intensified when his little brother Lewis died in infancy. A third son, Frank, was born in 1912, too young to be a playmate for the lonely Robert, though they became companions as adults.* Isolated from other children at an early age, Robert developed keen intellectual abilities while his social skills remained stunted.That became ...”

“... In 1937 a small gas field was discovered near Whitby in Yorkshire. In 1943 in Nazi-occupied Holland drilling began in a search for gas which met success only in July 1959 when the Groningen field was discovered in Friesland. It became clear that Groningen, the world’s second largest gas field, stretched far out into the North Sea and geologists noticed that the strata in which the Dutch deposits were found were actually an undersea extension of a formation which began in Yorkshire ...”

“... village with jumps in the fields, Rain, Steam and Occasional Work Stoppages?’ ‘Monster Field’ (1939) It could have survived perfectly well. Perhaps it did, in John Nash’s (Paul’s younger brother) re-doings of Constable country, or Stanley Spencer’s topographies of Cookham. Landscape painting had always been, essentially and ...”