Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a conspicuous 19th-century American author of Norwegian descent: "The advantage of the accredited locutions lies in their reputability; they are reputable because...
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Speaking Volumes: The Presidential Papers
Peter Stead on Norman Mailer's The Presidential Papers. In 1965 I laid out six shillings for a Corgi paperback that was to determine the chief fascination of my professional life. It was a volume of...
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A library of slim volumes with a broad scope
Andrew Marvell - Joseph Conrad - Doris Lessing - William Hazlitt. Introduction by Michael Foot - John Clare - William Golding - Ian McEwan - Walter Pater - Angela Carter - The Sensation Novel - John...
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A motor to defy the mechanic
The Engine of Reason, The Seat of the Soul - Journey to the Centers of the Mind
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A prince not yet the king
New Essays on Hamlet
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A Short History of the Universe, by JosephSilk, W. H. Freeman
(Photograph) - A supernova, the violent outburst caused by the gravitational collapse of a massive star, erupts in July 1987 near the Tarantula nebula. Taken from A Short History of the Universe, by...
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Buddy, can you spare a rhyme?
The Columbia History of American Poetry
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Ideas from thinking ash
How Things Are
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Inside and out
The Mind and Its World - Modern Philosophy of Mind
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The coffee-cup universe
The Universe Explained
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The fallen mighty
The Lost Prime Minister
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Promotions
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Readerships: Stuart Abell, in electronic and magnetic materials; John Fender, in macroeconomics; Colin Greaves, inorganic chemistry; Michael Grimmitt, religion in education;...
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Honorary degrees
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS DLitt: Alan Bowness, director of the Tate Gallery (1980-88) and former director of the Henry Moore Foundation; Stuart Hall, professor of sociology at the Open University. DMus:...
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Grants
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL Research Grants Dr M. Carroll, Pounds 55,419 from the Natural Environment Research Council (experimental study of the role of carbon dioxide in magmatic systems); Dr A. Leyshoon...
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Fellowships
KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON Presentation fellows: Sandor Alexander, chairman of National Westminster Bank; Vivien Duffield, philanthropist and patron of the arts. Fellow: Margaret Brown, head of the...