It was seven years ago. I was in my little home office in Nelson, and on the other end of the phone was so-called “Godfather of Goth” Robert Smith, lead singer of British band The Cure.
It was love at first listen
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Recreation: Splendors at Home
RECREATION The fine-limbed young woman rising from the foam on TIME’S cover is neither a naiad nor the creation of a fashion editor’s imaginative whim. She is Mrs
Essay: WHY THOSE STUDENTS ARE PROTESTING
ONE great educator became so infuriated with what he called the licentious, outrageous and disgraceful behavior of students at his college that he quit in disgust. The college was at Carthage, the year was A.D.
Vintage yacht heaven in Saint Tropez
Legend has it that a bet in 1981 between two yachtsmen in a chic Saint Tropez restaurant prompted a race between Pride, an American-owned Swan 44 sailboat and Ikra, a French-owned International 12-meter rival.
World’s oldest Benedictine monk dies at 108
Father Theodore Heck, believed to be the oldest Benedictine monk in the world, died Wednesday at the age of 108, his abbey in Indiana announced. Born in Iowa in 1901, Heck was less than a month shy of celebrating his 80th anniversary as a priest. Heck was a monk at Saint Meinrad Archabbey in southern Indiana for 86 years, Archabbot Justin DuVall said.