The end of European colonialism in the Muslim world in no way diminished the immediacy of that challenge nor the venality, brutality and incompetence of local regimes.
It's an excellent wee theatre, Milton Keynes, and not just because the authorities there are civilised enough to allow you to imbibe; a 1400-seater auditorium with a pit big enough to take a large orchestra (Welsh National Opera have toured Wozzeck here in the past), but with a Glyndebourne-esque sense of intimacy and immediacy.
There is a satisfying immediacy in the saving of lives, the patching up of the bumped and bruised, even in the abusive, drunken chaos of a Saturday night waiting room.
In Italy, Spero, who has died aged 83 of respiratory complications, discovered the vigour and immediacy of ancient Etruscan art; in Paris, where she and Golub settled in 1959, she discovered the troubled art and writings of the manic-depressive artist and inventor of the so-called theatre of cruelty, Antonin Artaud.
But for all those who've labelled his work as 'the art of immediacy, of brilliance, of mirth and joy', and, in particular, for all those cultural pimps of fashionable chit-chat who've spent thousands of dollars on his 'paintings', Warhol left me with these words: 'My work won't last anyway.
He goes completely stripped-back, using a loop pedal and acoustic guitar, and it's his bread and butter – for all the Pharrell productions, it's this immediacy that has paradoxically won him three sold out nights at Wembley Stadium.
Radar seeks to remain radical and urgent, as exemplified by the exhibition Street | Spirit, which features Polish painter Nisja's strangely calm cityscapes contrasting with the immediacy and frenzy of Marcel Ozymantra's large canvases.
Can we all please stop having "issues around" misusing prepositions in the belief that it also lends immediacy, vitality etc?
"Caesar is now faced", "England in the 17th century is a far different place" etc, presumably under the impression that it lends immediacy, accessibility and vitality rather than just being really, really annoying and tense-making.
Pantucci said the social media component of the conflict was relevant mainly because of its immediacy.
"Diaries have an immediacy, a messiness and a point of view that makes them valuable.
