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Há 5 dias · But then she married the dashing, unreliable Philip Toynbee, and after divorcing him married the philosopher Richard Wollheim, thus doing her bit to keep up the intellectual quota. Though she writes warmly of her mother, Toynbee is unremittingly hostile to ‘my obnoxious grandmother, Rosalind’.
Há 3 dias · Postwar literary figures such as Anthony Burgess, Edwin Muir and Philip Toynbee sneered at The Lord of the Rings, but others like Naomi Mitchison and Iris Murdoch respected the work, and W. H. Auden championed it. Those early critics dismissed Tolkien as non-modernist.
Há 5 dias · Polly Toynbee, well known as a journalist and columnist for the Observer, the BBC and the Guardian, is a representative of one such clan, and in An Uneasy Inheritance she melds entertaining accounts of her most notable recent ancestors into ‘a particular history of a liberal heritage’, one foregrounding what she sees as a distinctively British t...
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Há 4 dias · As the story goes, the Pope read the letter and then looked at the names attached to it. When he spotted the name of the Queen of Crime, it is alleged he exclaimed: “Ah, Agatha Christie!” and promptly agreed to the letter’s plea. So the indult became known as the “Agatha Christie Indult.”.
Há 5 dias · While for generations Polly Toynbee’s ancestors have been committed left-wing rabble-rousers railing against injustice, they could never claim to be working class, settling instead for the prosperous life of academia or journalism enjoyed by their own forebears. So where does that leave their ideals of class equality?
Há 4 dias · Fans of The Chosen may have noticed that Yoshi Barrigas is no longer playing Philip in Season 4. First introduced in Episode 2 of Season 2, Philip was a former disciple of John the Baptist and one of the few disciples with experience in ministry and life on the road.
