Authors: Clive James
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Evelyn Waugh, © Yousuf Karsh/Camera Press/Retna Ltd.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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Stefan Zweig, ullstein bild/The Granger Collection, New York
INDEX
Acheson, Dean,
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Acton, John Dalberg, Lord,
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Adler, Alfred,
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Adonis,
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Adorno, Theodor,
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Aeschylus,
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Agnelli, Gianni,
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Agricola, Gnaeus Julius,
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Akhmatova, Anna,
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Albee, Edward,
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Alcibiades,
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Alexander Severus, Emperor of Rome,
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Ali, Tariq,
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Alice Springs,
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Allen, Woody,
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Allyson, June,
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Almodóvar, Pedro,
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Altenberg, Peter,
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Alvarez, A.,
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Amis, Kingsley,
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Andreas-Salomé, Lou,
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Annan, Kofi,
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Antony, Mark,
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Arendt, Hannah,
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Ariosto, Ludovico,
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Aristotle,
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Arkin, Alan,
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Aron, Raymond,
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Ashbery, John,
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Ashkenazy, Vladimir,
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Assouline, Pierre,
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Astre de la Vigerie, Emmanuel d’,
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Aubrey, John,
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Auchinleck, Claude,
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Auden, W. H.,
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Auerbach, Erich,
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Augustus, Emperor of Rome,
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Autolycus,
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Avernheimer, Raoul,
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Avril, Jane,
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Axelrod, George,
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Baba (tango fan),
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Bach, Johann Sebastian,
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Bahr, Hermann,
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Bailey, Derek,
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Bailey, Philip,
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Baker, Nicholson,
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Bakst, Léon,
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Bakunin, Mikhail,
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Balanchine, George,
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Baldick, Robert,
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Balzac, Honoré de,
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Bankhead, Tallulah,
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Barber, Samuel,
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Barbey d’Aurevilly, Jules-Amédée,
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Barbirolli, John,
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Barenboim, Daniel,
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Barker, George,
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Bar Lev, Chaim,
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Barres, Maurice,
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Baryshnikov, Mikhail,
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Basie, William “Count,”
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Baudelaire, Charles-Pierre,
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Bauer, Felice,
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Baxter, John,
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Bayley, John,
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Beach, Sylvia,
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Beauvoir, Simone de,
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Beccaria, Cesare, Marquis of,
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Bechet, Sidney,
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Beethoven, Ludwig van,
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Begin, Menachem,
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Beiderbecke, Bix,
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Bely, Andrei,
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Bene, Edvard,
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Ben-Gurion, David,
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Benjamin, Walter,
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Benois, Aleksandr,
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Béraud, Henri,
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Berdyayev, Nikolay,
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Berg, Alban Maria Johannes,
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Berger, Gerhard,
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Berlin, Isaiah,
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Berman, Paul,
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Bernard, Jeffrey,
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Bernstein, Leonard,
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Best, George,
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Bevin, Ernest,
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bin Ladin, Osama,
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Bishop, Elizabeth,
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Bjoerling, Jussi,
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Blainey, Geoffrey,
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Blavatsky, Helena,
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Blesh, Rudi,
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Blobel, Paul,
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Bloch, Ernst,
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Blunck, Hans-Friedrich,
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Bogart, Humphrey,
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Bohlen, Charles “Chip,”
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Böhm, Karl,
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Bohr, Niels,
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Bohrer, Karl Heinz,
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Bonnard, Pierre,
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Borges, Jorge Luis,
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Borgnine, Ernest,
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Borutin, Sidonie Nadherny von,
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Boswell, James,
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Boulting, Ingrid,
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Bowlby, John,
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Braak, Menno ter,
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Brabham, Jack,
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Braddon, Russell,
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Brahms, Caryl,
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Branagh, Kenneth,
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Brancusi, Constantin,
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Brandauer, Klaus Maria,
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Brasillach, Robert,
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Brassens, Georges,
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Brasseur, Pierre,
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Braun, Eva,
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Brecht, Bertolt,
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Breker, Arno,
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Brel, Jacques,
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Brezhnev, Leonid,
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Bricmont, Jean,
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Broch, Hermann,
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Brod, Max,
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Brodney, Oscar,
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Bronnen, Arnolt,
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Bronzino, Agnolo,
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Brooks, Mel,
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Brown, Frederick,
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Browning, Robert,
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Bruckner, Josef Anton,
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Brummell, Beau,
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Büchner, Friedrich,
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Buckle, Richard,
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Bukharin, Nicolay,
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Bundy, McGeorge,
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Bunge, Gustav von,
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Buñuel, Luis,
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Burckhardt, Jacob,
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Burgess, Anthony,
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Burns, Robert,
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Burrows, Abe,
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Burton, Richard,
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Bush, George W.,
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Bush, Kate,
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Cade, Jack,
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Cadicamo, Enrico,
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Cage, John,
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Caligula, Emperor of Rome,
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Callas, Maria,
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Callow, Simon,
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Cameron, James,
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Camões, Luíz Vaz de,
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Camus, Albert,
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Canetti, Elias,
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Canning, George,
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Capone, Al,
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Caracalla, Emperor of Rome,
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Caravaggio,
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Carney, Harry,
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Carroll, Lewis,
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Carson, Johnny,
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Carter, William C.,
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Casanova, Giovanni Giacomo,
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Casares, Maria,
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Casaubon, Edward,
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Catullus,
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Ceauşescu, Elena,
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Celan, Paul,
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Céline, Louis-Ferdinand,
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Cervantes, Miguel de,
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Chamfort,
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Chanel, Gabrielle “Coco,”
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Chang, Jung,
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Chaplin, Charles,
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Chardonne, Jacques,
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Charisse, Cyd,
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Charteris, Leslie,
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Chateaubriand, François-Auguste-René de,
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Chaucer, Geoffrey,
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Chaudhuri, Nirad C.,
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Chesterton, G. K.,
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Chevalier, Maurice,
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Chicago,
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Chile,
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China,
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Chopin, Frédéric,
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Churchill, Winston,
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Cicero,
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Clark, Jim,
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Clarke, Alan,
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Claudel, Paul,
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Clausewitz, Carl von,
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Cobb, Richard,
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Cocteau, Jean,
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor,
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Collingwood, R. G.,
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Comden, Betty,
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Conan Doyle, Sir Arthur,
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Constantine I, Emperor of Rome,
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Contini, Gianfranco,
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Cooper, Gary,
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Cooper, James Fenimore,
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Copland, Aaron,
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Coppola, Francis Ford,
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Corbière, Tristan,
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Coriolanus,
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Cortázar, Julio,
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Cortot, Alfred,
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Corvo, Baron,
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Costa-Gavras,
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Costner, Kevin,
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Cousteau, Jacques,
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Covent Garden,
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Cowley, Malcolm,
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Crane, Hart,
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Crawford, Cindy,
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Crawford, Joan,
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Cripps, Stafford,
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Croce, Benedetto,
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Crossman, R. H. S.,
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Curtius, Ernst Robert,
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Cuvilliés, François de,
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Czechoslovakia,
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