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  • But he does not include my favourite: Robert Conquest's reworking of Shakespeare's seven ages of man from As You Like It:

    Shakespeare's seven ages of man as a limerick

  • "Celebrities, rappers, professional athletes – people who want the biggest, the baddest, and the newest," says Conquest's president, William Maizlin.

    Luxury armoured vehicles: a buyer's guide

  • So I feel altogether qualified to recommend Christopher Hitchens's Robert Conquest's realities and delusions in the TLS.

    Last summer ...

  • A central theme in Conquest's book (and in his earlier books) is to point out the shockingly immoral behavior of the Soviet leadership, which was unparalleled in the West -- a difference that leftist intellectuals infatuated with communism lost sight of, he claims.

    Balkinization

  • Conquest's importance has been acknowledged the length and breadth of the former Soviet Union.

    Archive 2007-02-01

  • Conquest's more specific call to a return to the principles of the British Enlightenment is more to the point, but still not enough.

    The Speculist: March 2006 Archives

  • Conquest's more specific call to a return to the principles of the British Enlightenment is more to the point, but still not enough.

    The Speculist: Enlightenment 3.0

  • Delicacy imbued with strength was betokened, too, by the tall slenderness of her figure, whose silence and suppleness of movement came -- in Conquest's imagination at least -- from her far-off forest ancestry.

    The Wild Olive

  • You will be Conquest's wife -- a great lady in New York.

    The Wild Olive

  • Nevertheless, it was a support to her to remember that Conquest's manner on the occasions when business brought her to his office was always a little different from that which he assumed when they met outside.

    The Wild Olive

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