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“... from their frozen obscurity and brought back to life, once more to browse the Arctic plains? Richard Stone assumes that attempts to revive mammoths are a practical possibility. Frozen mammoth sperm, so the theory goes, may yet be viable. Techniques are already used routinely in fertility treatment that allow defrosted sperm to fertilise living ...”

“... cancer that were diagnosed a few years after he quit. One of Beckett’s best discoveries is Dr Richard Stone, whose father, Joe Stone, had been Wilson’s GP since the 1940s – a job that the junior Stone took over for the last 12 years of Wilson’s life. ‘Harold had been the ...”

“... cases I have described provide a snapshot of the way our criminal justice system deals with race. Richard Stone, an adviser to Macpherson during the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry, provided character evidence at Gurpal Virdi’s trial. The court was told that Virdi’s submission to the inquiry was one of the first that pointed it in the direction of its final ...”

“... I’ll do you and your reign justice: A monument in the public square, A clump of men fallen (stone or bronze), Writhing, agony, gestures, the struggle, And there above them, above the fray, You as I would only you portray – Nothing vulgar or carnal, a presence We divine only in their faces, all there And yet vanished like the victory they sought Or the ...”

“... on a rosary’) and is reunited with people she knew at secondary school, including the methodical Richard Gittens. Although male and an outsider, he works devotedly for the community and shares its values, unlike his wife, who thinks the way the nuns live is ‘unnatural’. The novel gives no credence to that prejudice: the stereotypes of convent life as a ...”

“... they vitiate For pure fun, when they joust through thick and thin, Vanishes under frost, a hoar-stone slate. Midnight, my crushed face melts in a dead heat: Old scores ironed out, tomorrow a clean ...”

“... Duke of Norfolk existed to make sure that everyone performed their ritual to his satisfaction; no Richard Dimbleby existed to ‘sell’ the royal performances to the public. This would not have been an easy task, for the performers missed their cues, arrived drunk, took the wrong places and, in some cases, giggled throughout the ceremony – George IV’s ...”

“... it should have both these things – but whatever it is at the centre must be substantial like the stone in a peach and it must exist before one can ever begin to start thinking constructively. In May he decided to have a break and, on a friend’s recommendation, took a boat from Narragansett to Block Island. There he saw the charred remains of the Ocean ...”

“... commerce grew, and with it the possibility of wealth. All this within what was long ago called the Stone Age: a period now much more precisely calibrated thanks to carbon dating and the refinements of field archaeology. The evidence for the transformation of humans from just another species to masters and despoilers of all they see comes from what our ...”

“... public good by barbed wire and bored guards. The other was a lecture on Stonehenge by Professor Richard Atkinson, where the greatest living expert on the subject sternly rebuked a member of his packed audience who had the temerity to ask whether we could know anything of the culture or religion of those who had built it. What Mr Fowles has come up with is a ...”

“... is also meant to be a piece of advocacy. This creates a problem over writing a preface about Richard Long. He has too many admirers. A quarter of a century has passed since he began to gain an international reputation at about the time he left art school, and this reputation has steadily grown upwards and outwards. Mounting stacks of books, catalogues ...”

“... flesh Pasolini dreams up take place in the open air, free of clothes or inhibitions – free of stone. It’s significant that Pasolini turned to the Orient to conjure his rather forced vision of primitive sanity, and that he expressed his resistance to Western embourgeoisement through a honeyed, lyrical and comic picture of nomad culture and its pursuit of ...”

“... Its opening lines step forward with a cool swagger, toying with Virgilian cadences: ‘I write of stone. I write of Italy where stone is habitual.’ The reader is invited to fall in with a persona of Baedekered cosmopolitanism and sensual self-assurance. ‘We are prepared to enjoy ...”

“... in Paris, but it is still the most impressive and among the most magisterially consistent. Richard Goy and Robert Berger, in their respective accounts of the construction of the Cà d’Oro and of Louis XIV’s Louvre, remove ambiguities which hang around the word ‘built’. They ask who made decisions, who paid, and how much, and why each building ...”

“... their own author. In aristocratic circles authorship was attributed to one of their own – Sir Richard Vyvyan was a popular candidate at fashionable metropolitan soirées when the sensation was at its height, and the name of Prince Albert was, according to one account, also suggested. In ecclesiastical circles any one of a number of free-thinking radicals ...”