Reading Room at British Museum Faces Space Crunch
The British Museum Reading Room, a historic hub for scholars from Marx to Woolf, seeks a larger home across the street as overcrowding worsens. A Cashton-led commission proposes a new library with 1,820 seats and expanded book storage, aided by a sympathetic government but lacking firm funding.
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London
British Museum
Karl Marx
Lenin
Trotsky
Charles Dickens
William Makepeace Thackeray
Thomas Hardy
George Eliot
Thomas Carlyle
George Bernard Shaw
Edward Heath
Matthew Arnold
Happy Island
Bloomsbury
Europe
United States
Canada
Australia
Frederick Cashton
Nottingham University
Arsenal
Woolwich
Bayswater
Guardian
Vincent Browne
Bancroft
Charles Lamb
Peter Roget
Havelock Ellis
John Ruskin
Oxford
Wordsworth
William Butler Yeats
E. M. Forster
Lytton Strachey
Virginia Woolf
Leslie Stephen
Anthony Panizzi
Hogarth life and times biography by Ronald Paulson
A two volume landmark biography of William Hogarth by Ronald Paulson from Yale University Press. The work argues that Hogarth’s comic history painting is central, supported by rich primary material and context from 18th century England.
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Hogarth
Ronald Paulson
Yale University Press
Johns Hopkins University
Paulson
Henry Fielding
England
The Fox and His World in The 700 Gang
Paul Gallico crafts a quartet of connected episodes around Pierre Roquebrun the Fox a former Resistance leader now antique dealer on the French Riviera. He aids detective Captain Scoubide by providing clever solutions amid art theft narcotics and a powerful family kidnapping while keeping a wily, entertaining atmosphere.
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Gallico
Pierre Roquebrun
French Riviera
the Fox
Fox
Captain Scoubide
Rivers sidetracks club act for own Broadway play
Joan Rivers, after seven rewrites, takes center stage with the Broadway-bound Fun City. The project, developed with her husband Edgar Rosenberg and Lester Colodny, is set to premiere at the Morosco Theatre on Dec. 28 after Washington tryouts. The comedian discusses her middle class perspective and tough process of shaping the script.
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Joan Rivers
New York
Miss Rivers
Las Vegas
Syracuse
Montana
Broadway
Morosco
Washington
Edgar Rosenberg
Lester Colodny
Don Rickles
Mort Sahl
Rosenbergs
Colodny
Alexander H. Cohen
Van Cliburn Defends Tchaikovsky Concerto
Van Cliburn, 23 at his Moscow win, defends Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 in B flat minor during a period of prolific releases with RCA Victor. He stresses art over trends and says a performer’s role is to bring life to the composer’s ink on the page while maintaining career longevity.
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New York
van Cliburn
Rachmaninoff
Paganini
Liszt
Philadelphia Orchestra
Prokofiev
Barber
Beethoven
Cliburn
Cliburns
Tchaikovsky
Tchaikovski
Cruces
Moscow
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Great Britain
Ireland
Vatican
Russell Street
Cnidos
Rome
Department of Printed Books
Richard F. L. Bancroft
Marx
Panizzi
Fine
THE
700 Gang
Paul Gallico
Coward McCann
William Glover
Melissa
Adolph
Lenny
Doubleday Book Store
Rivers
Chicago
Barbara Harris
Catskills
Mos
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