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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 01/03/2009
For some reason, a glimpse of the lower orders warming themselves at a brazier in the street made me think of the ancient world. These classical projections in turn suggested a Poussin scene, where Time gives shape to the steps of the dance that had hitherto felt unfamiliar. So where better to start my meandering epic than at the school - there is only one so I need not be so vulgar as to name it...
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KR Blog (Free subscription) | 01/07/2009
... to the one new job on Craigslist that you’re barely interested in, moving some William Styron or Anthony Powell to the “read” shelves can mark the week’s superlative achievement. Years hence, this system has grown historically important to me because I eventually realized that the sequences of spines and colors and trim sizes was imprinting itself on my memory. It would then please...
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Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 01/03/2009
By Geoffrey Rowell, In the Wallace Collection in London hangs one of Nicolas Poussin’s great paintings, A Dance to the Music of Time. As the winged and grey-bearded Father Time plays a lyre the allegorical figures of the Seasons of life, Poverty, Labour, Wealth and Pleasure, dance an eternal round to his music. It was a painting that provided an inspiration and title for Anthony Powell’s...
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Modern Kicks (Free subscription) | 12/30/2008
Stepping away from the chocolate-covered toffee for a moment, I just finished reading Michael Barber's Anthony Powell: A Life, finding it a modest but serviceable biography. Last year at this time I was immersed in the midst of A Dance...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 12/16/2008
... Maid Of Money won the 1989 Irish Grand National at Fairyhouse.Maid Of Money was ridden by the late Anthony Powell and won at odds of 10 to 1 from Candy Well and Have A Barney.Another good mare trained by Fowler was the prolific winner Opera Hat."It's a terrible shock and he is a huge loss," said the Horse Racing Ireland chief executive Brian Kavanagh last night."He was a great contributor...
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American Fez (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
... name was Philip Heseltine. He was caricatured by Aldous Huxley in 'Antic Hay' and described in Anthony Powell's memoirs as "mephistolean". Bethlehem Down ? Well, the song certainly doesn't bring you "up" that's for sure. The Fall: No Xmas For John Quays Over a cacaphonic background of poorly played instruments, Mark E. Smith delivers his seasonal harangue about a man in room with...
