" Philip Larkin in a letter to Kingsley Amis in 1948, wrote that " no one can ' stick words into us like pins '... like he can ", but followed that by stating that he " doesn't use his words to any advantage ".

From John's perspective, what then followed represented an opportunity to stabilise control over his continental possessions and produce a lasting peace with Philip in Paris.

In a sense the innovations of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Philip Guston, Hans Hofmann, Clyfford Still, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Motherwell, Peter Voulkos and others opened the floodgates to the diversity and scope of all the art that followed them.

They were followed by composers such as Philip Glass, Mark Adamo, John Corigliano, Robert Moran, John Coolidge Adams, and Jake Heggie.

But Philip achieved a great deal of success in the civil war that followed, allowing him in 1204 to be again crowned king, this time by the archbishop of Cologne.

And now the proclamation of Pretorius was followed by protests on the part of the British high commissioner, Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse, as well as on the part of the consul-general for Portugal in South Africa.

The expulsion, which was not reversed until 1656, followed a precedent set by other European territorial princes: Philip II of France had expelled all Jews from his own lands in 1182 ; John I, Duke of Brittany, drove them out of his duchy in 1239 ; and in the late 1240s Louis IX of France had expelled the Jews from the royal demesne before his first passage to the East.

This was followed in 1581 by the Act of Abjuration, the declaration of independence of the provinces from Philip II.

When Worlds Collide ( 1951 ) based on a 1933 novel by Philip Wylie, deals with two planets on a collision course with Earth – the smaller planet a " near miss ," causing extensive damage and destruction, followed by a direct hit from the larger planet.

In arranging the marriages of his children, Philip followed an intelligent diplomatic and strategic design, which would be followed by his successors in Burgundy as far as Emperor Maximilian I.

A brief campaign of a coalition of Philip's friends came to a truce, followed by a pact at Compiègne by which John received a fief from Philip worth 2000 livres and declared himself a vassal of France.

Philip reacted with energy to the humiliation and a new battle followed at Mons-en-Pévèle two years later, which ended indecisively.

He followed in the steps of his father, Philip IV, in trying to place the French crown on a solid fiscal footing and revoked many of the unpopular decisions of his predecessor and older brother, Louis X.

These marriages followed the tradition of cementing military and political alliances between France and Spain that began with the marriage of Philip II of Spain to Elisabeth of Valois in 1559 as part of the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis.

Originally sponsored by Philip Morris & Company and Procter & Gamble, the show followed the comic adventures of seven castaways as they attempted to survive ( and in a later movie escape from ) the island on which they had been shipwrecked.

Although the peace that followed allowed Philip to keep his kingdom intact as a buffer state between other Greek states and Illyria, Flamininus proclaimed that the Greek states previously under Macedonian domination were now free.

Janet Baker, Julian Bream, Osian Ellis, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, John Shirley-Quirk and Robert Tear were amongst the regular performers in the early days, followed later by Alfred Brendel, Ian Bostridge, Thomas Allen, Philip Langridge and Ann Murray.

This followed the sale of Nabisco Holdings Group to Philip Morris.

The first Prior General was Friar Matthew, followed by Adjutus and Philip.

In the war that followed, Philip, who drew his principal support from south Germany, met with considerable success.

The scandal that followed the marriage caused Philip to lose political influence, and the Reformation within the Empire was severely compromised.

Millar was a storyteller, and during the conversations that followed, he invited Philip to visit the Alta area.

This was followed in 1601 by a songbook, A Booke of Ayres, with words by himself and music composed by himself and Philip Rosseter.

Then followed the rapid succession of the last Direct Capetian kings of France between 1314 and 1328, the three sons of Philip IV.

Mountbatten's qualification for offering advice to this particular heir to the throne was unique ; it was he who had arranged the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Dartmouth Royal Naval College on 22 July 1939, taking care to include the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret in the invitation, but assigning his nephew, Cadet Prince Philip of Greece, to keep them amused while their parents toured the facility.

The advice given by the Cabinet is, in order to ensure the stability of government, typically binding ; both the Queen and her viceroy, however, may in exceptional circumstances invoke the reserve powers, which remain the Crown's final check against a ministry's abuse of power, this was last fully exercised in 1932, when Sir Philip Game dismissed Premier Jack Lang.

Philip eagerly accepted the advice, and quickly marched at the head of his troops into the territory of Flanders.

In 1332, when King Philip VI of France was conversing with the German priest Brocardus for advice and guidance, their topic shifted to the assassin.

There are several books on the National Academy of Sciences and the advice the National Research Council gives the U. S. government, including a critical piece of journalism The Brain Bank of America by Philip Boffey and a sociological study Science on Stage: Expert Advice as Public Drama.

Beauregard traveled by steamship from New York to New Orleans and immediately began giving military advice to the local authorities, which included further strengthening Forts St. Philip and Jackson, which guarded the Mississippi approaches to New Orleans.

Philip clearly believed that Maria could intercede with God on his behalf and provide advice on what God wished him to do, to improve Spain's failing fortunes.

In his will, Philip left political power as regent on behalf of the young Charles II to his wife Mariana, with instructions that she heed the advice of a small junta committee established for this purpose.

Bucer consulted Luther and Melanchthon, and the three reformers presented Philip with a statement of advice ( Wittenberger Ratschlag ); later, Bucer produced his own arguments for and against bigamy.

Some scholars have noted a possible motivation for this notorious advice: the theologians believed they had advised Philip as a pastor would his parishioner, and that a lie was justified to guard the privacy of their confessional counsel.

Acting upon the advice of Dr John Philip, the superintendent of the London Missionary Society's stations in South Africa, a treaty was concluded in 1843 with Moshoeshoe, placing him under British protection.

He was the author of two text-books on them — one an Elementary Treatise on Quaternions ( 1867 ), written with the advice of Hamilton, though not published till after his death, and the other an Introduction to Quaternions ( 1873 ), in which he was aided by Philip Kelland ( 1808 – 1879 ), one of his teachers at Edinburgh.

As his successor Philip Gidley King said, his conduct was " guided by the most upright intentions ", and he was " most shamefully deceived by those on whom he had every reason to depend for assistance, information, and advice.

At the advice and recommendation of King Philip, Allen was created a Cardinal in 1587, and he was prepared to return to England immediately, should the invasion prove successful.

The assembly of barons and prelates decided to seek advice from Philip II of France, who offered one of his followers, John of Brienne.

From ' The New English Weekly ' 1932-34, with a preliminary section from ' The New Age 1912 ( 1936 ) edited by Montgomery Butchart, ' with the advice of Maurice Colbourne, T. S. Eliot, Philip Mairet, Will Dyson and others '

Even though Isabella was far beyond the common age of marriage for women of her day, she was attractive to Philip as a potential consort: she was well-bred, shrewd and accomplished ; perfectly capable of offering sound political advice and maintaining diplomatic discretion ; and of fertile family stock without any history of poor health.

The first intendencias were established in Spain after 1711, during the War of the Spanish Succession on the advice of Jean Orry, who had been sent by Louis XIV of France to help his young grandson Philip V set up his new government.

In 1732 there was born to him, by a certain Mlle Madelina Elizabeth du Bouchet, the son, Philip, for whose advice and instruction at Westminster School were afterwards written the famous Letters to his Son.

When Prince Philip told him that the intrusive media attention would injure her reputation if he did not come to a decision about marrying her soon, and realising that Lady Diana met the Mountbatten criteria ( and, apparently, the public's ) for a proper royal bride, Charles construed his father's advice as a warning to proceed without further delay, and proposed marriage.

When Gorst sold his airline to Boeing Air Transport, the advice that Gorst was receiving from Patterson brought the latter to the attention of Philip G. Johnson of Boeing.

At this meeting, Kenwright revealed that he took business advice from retail industry leaders Sir Philip Green and Sir Terry Leahy.

Thanks to this Aragonese Crusade undertaken by his father Philip III against the advice of his brother, the future Philip the Fair, he believed he would win a kingdom and won nothing but the ridicule of having been crowned with a cardinal's hat in 1285, which gave him the sobriquet of the " King of the Cap.