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Debate: Is Labour encouraging a plebeian culture? The Government's sincerity was called into question last week: even the `Mirror' called for it to spend more on the arts, while the writer VS Naipaul accused Tony Blair of dumbing down our cultural life
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DAVID PUTTNAM
NO
British art has never had it so good. Tate Modern has opened to
public rapture, while the success of our painters, sculptors and
conceptual artists continues to bring Britain ever greater credit.
The Government has placed itself firmly behind the flourishing "new
art" movement and shown awareness of the tremendous importance of
creativity in the emerging "ideas" economy.
Sir Vidia Naipaul's contention that opening access to the arts is
the same as "dumb...
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It is a tribute to India: Naipaul
India Abroad
; Bhatia, Shyam India Abroad 10-19-2001 It is a tribute to India: Naipaul On the day he received the all-important call from Stockholm informing him he had won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Sir Vidiadhar Seepersad Naipaul was recovering from a mixture of influenza and fatigue incurred from a recent
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Nobel reward for Naipaul's `incorruptible scrutiny'
The Independent - London
; ... A House for Mr Biswas and the recently published Half a Novel, his first book in seven years. He was gracious on hearing the news. "I am utterly delighted, this is an unexpected accolade. It is a great tribute to both England, my home, and to India, home ...
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 "The Independent (London, England)")
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Nobel reward for Naipaul's `incorruptible scrutiny'.(News)
The Independent (London, England)
; ... A House for Mr Biswas and the recently published Half a Novel, his first book in seven years. He was gracious on hearing the news. I am utterly delighted, this is an unexpected accolade. It is a great tribute to both England, my home, and to India, home of ...
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THE differences between Sir Vidia Naipaul and Paul Theroux shows few signs of being patched up. [Derived headline]
Evening Standard - London
; THE differences between Sir Vidia Naipaul and Paul Theroux shows few signs of being patched up. In 1998, Paul Theroux wrote Sir Vidia's Shadow, a memoir about his friendship with Sir Vidia, portraying him as proud, arrogant, mannered and cruel. The two have barely spoken since. At Royal Society of
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 "The Economist (US)")
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Government and the arts - Philistines in high places.(Brief Article)
The Economist (US)
; Yet another arty type has accused Tony Blair's government of dumbing things down. What lies behind these attacks? ARTISTS can be just as fickle as businesspeople, as Tony Blair has discovered. A chorus of eminent writers and performers lined up in support of Labour in 1997. But the enthusiasm of
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 "The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)")
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DANCING IN SIR VIDIA'S SHADOW; "TELL THE TRUTH," IS WHAT PAUL THEROUX LEARNED FROM V.S. NAIPAUL. NOW THAT HE HAS PUBLISHED A BOOK ON HIS MENTOR, CALLED "SIR VIDIA'S SHADOW," THEROUX IS BATTLING CRITICISM THAT HE HAS BETRAYED HIS FORMER FRIEND.(LIFE)
The News & Record (Piedmont Triad, NC)
; Byline: MORT ROSENBLUM The Associated Press EAST SANDWICH, Mass. - Paul Theroux, lord of the hit-and-run travelogue and novels sneakily larded with facts, has now written a book so biting it has reared up to take chunks out of the author. He is used to creating a stir. In his travel book of the
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If Sir Vidia has failed to shock you so far, wait no longer...
The Independent on Sunday
; Hero or Villain? Interviews with V S Naipaul come under headlines such as "The Finest Writer in the World". He has won every major literary prize, including the Booker and the Nobel. Drop his name at any Highgate supper and you can be sure of a second invitation. But as a revealing new biography by
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Books: Vindictive through and Theroux Sir Vidia's Shadow by Paul Theroux Penguin pounds 7.99
The Independent - London
; Other people's gossip is rarely interesting: when Theroux's obituary to his friendship with V S Naipaul was published last year, and the press started talking about a great "literary feud", many people must surely have had to suppress a yawn. Could this story be remotely interesting to anybody
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Lord Bragg attacks 'OAPs of culture'.
The Birmingham Post (England)
; Broadcaster Lord Bragg has attacked self-appointed guardians of the arts at the forefront of 'dumbing down' complaints and branded them the 'foolish senior citizens of culture'. ITV's South Bank Show guru rounded on writer Sir Vidia Naipaul, Barbican Centre boss John Tusa and former Radio 3
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Books: Death of a friendship on Gloucester Road Sir Vidia's Shadow by Paul Theroux Hamish Hamilton pounds 17.99
The Independent - London
; Paul Theroux first met V S Naipaul 30 years ago, in Uganda. Theroux was a university teacher in Kampala, 24 years old, and an unpublished novelist, when V S Naipaul turned up as a visiting professor. Naipaul, despite being dismissive of all his students, took Theroux's writing seriously. Flattered
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