“Young men should prove theorems,” a mentor told a young Freeman Dyson. “Old men should write books.” Now 94, Dyson is following that advice Hotest Ideas Coldest Rivers »
The Australian academic Clive Hamilton has told a US congressional committee China is waging a “campaign of psychological warfare” against Australia, as America's most significant ally in the region, undermining democracy and cowing free speech ...
IT was the trainwreck interview that no Australian politician would want to ever repeat.
David Littleproud is strapped in the back of a tiny six-seater Beechcraft Baron as it descends into the historic town of Tambo. The taxpayer-funded charter might be an expensive way to get around but only if you ignore the colossal challenge of representing Maranoa, an outback Queensland seat that is three times the size of ...
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Sean Greer: "I think every novelist has a list of novels they never
wrote - and never plan to write. Some are impossible dreams. Some are
good ideas over a bad bottle of wine. And some are, let's admit it, just
bad ideas. Really bad ideas. So for what it's worth, a little advice
..." …
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For what it's worth (probably very little), I disagree about Eliot and Conrad and Camus. He's certainly right about Lady Chatterly, though Lawrence wrote good poetry and short stories. Faulkner also wrote some good stories. I once took Auden to task for a translation of Hölderlin, but I love his poetry. I think he is utterly right about Freud and Pound.
In
London, the Elgin Marbles were hidden in Aldwych tube station –
although, alarmingly, it was later revealed it wouldn’t have withstood a
direct hit. In Paris, the Louvre was emptied out in 1939, with 3,600
paintings packed off to safe houses. The Mona Lisa – now considered too
fragile to be moved – was shuttled round the country five times, moving
from chateau to abbey to chateau, to keep her one step ahead of the
Nazis. …
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