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“... straight and in some detail about Powell’s less than successful period as a screenwriter for Warner Bros, in Teddington and Hollywood, and about his war job in military intelligence, which according to Barber was ‘neither glamorous nor, in terms of the war effort, of particular importance’, and seems to have consisted largely of such duties as ‘the ...”

“... had died, but because events since his death – the marches from Selma; the assassination of Malcolm X – had changed the national mood. This is what gives Redding’s coda such force. ‘There’s been times when I thought I couldn’t last for long,’ are the last lines Cooke sang: But now I think I’m able to carry on It’s been a long, a long ...”

“... exactly analogous to that faced by feminists, and in the section on ‘The Body Politic’ Marina Warner, Hermione Lee and Sandra Gilbert explore the ways in which women might or do speak and write so as to convey their experience in a way that communicates a female point of view without being disenfranchising. Marina ...”

“... Barclays Bank, got £5.2 million. That year, Barclays’ profits were £7.08 billion. Edward Warner Shewell, who did most to get the Mythe waterworks built, was a long-lived Conservative patriarch whose career spanned most of the 19th century. With his wife, Emma, he raised 16 children at their house in Royal Crescent, Cheltenham. For many years, with ...”