“... presence in the New York art world, an avuncular adviser in particular to the circle of Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Johns, who made of his hermetic art a queer code of their own as they worked to establish a neo-avant-garde alternative to the pure painting of Abstract Expressionism. Renewed interest in Duchamp led to an increased demand for his ...”

“... Nacht was deemed not only dissonant but morally objectionable. The score was prefaced by Richard Dehmel’s poem, in which, on a moonlit walk in the woods, a woman reveals to her lover that she is pregnant by another man. He replies – ‘generously’, in the assessment of Harvey Sachs – that the child will be theirs, transfigured by their ...”

“... Mary Peters; from subsidiary groupings such as Actors for Europe, which included Arthur Lowe and Richard Briers, and Writers for Europe, whose membership ranged from Agatha Christie to Tom Stoppard. Ogres such as Benn, Paisley and Powell were no match for these recruits. The 1975 referendum has attracted the attention of various political ...”

“... worked with Randolph S. on editing the C papers, here useful on C and social reform; the navalist Richard Ollard, who has written on the Churchill-impacted Admirals Fisher and Cunningham (and the Navy), John Grigg (and Lloyd George), etc. The platoon’s roll goes on, with Gordon A. Craig, America’s Germanist and ...”

“... This can be blunt to the point of crude, as on the day in 1975 when Bundy captures Julie Cunningham, a ski instructor on her way to meet friends: He hits her again with the crowbar, rapes her, and strangles her with a cord, then drags her body under a bush. Also on 15 March, news breaks that Asarco is asking the EPA for permission to fill with ...”

“... the Upper East Side. His son Jared, an art student specialising in industrial sculpture (the next Richard Serra, even), started to make it his home. Young Jared took pleasure in the neighbourhood, dirty and dangerous as it was, with homeless people and intravenous drug users camping out in Tompkins Square Park, and was surprised when a contingent of ...”

“... suddenly he would break into a big smile. He was gracious, but he said what he thought.’ Like Richard Yates, a near contemporary and friend who was also famous on the writing-school circuit for not being famous, Williams served in the war and had a few unsuccessful marriages, drank too much, promoted a writerly ideal of Flaubert-like strenuousness, and ...”

“... stages of British history. In the late 19th century, historical economists such as William Cunningham and the first Arnold Toynbee tried to relativise the theorems of political economy by representing them as merely the reflection of one brief period of English economic history, which might soon be coming to an end. Among the various revisionist ...”

“... it hosted some of the first public appearances together of the composer John Cage and dancer Merce Cunningham, who had only recently become partners in art and life.’ Outlines opened in 1941 and for the next six years put on work by Calder, Cornell, Berenice Abbott, Cartier-Bresson, Klee, Cocteau and Duchamp. It also had an exhibition of silkscreen prints ...”

“... over all the drawers in the work table in the spare room. Blakey rolls her eyes, sits down, pulls Richard Rorty out of her bag and prepares to wait for several hours.I guess I left this part out earlier: that I’m as ‘arty’ as my old mum. Can’t help it: it’s a mutant gene, like homosexuality. And though I can neither draw nor paint I’m fairly good ...”

“... there by Laurence Olivier in Macbeth and, at the Golders Green Hippodrome, by John Gielgud in Richard II. I was also taken to things picked out by myself: the Crazy Gang in OK for Sound at the London Palladium and Eliot’s Murder in the Cathedral, after I had heard part of a broadcast of it. I found it long, apart from the murderers’ apologias, but was ...”