Talk of an ambitious drama following a group of friends from the 1960s to the present day inevitably brings to mind Peter Flannery's Our Friends in the North.
When he crosses a present-day mind, it is almost never as the plump, white-mustachioed burgher painted by Sargent.
He made it all but impossible, from the nineteen-twenties until the present day, for the life of the mind, or of art, to be pursued for its own sake, in indifference to the political society within which scholars and artists function.
Not that they selected the iPhone over Android, mind you, but rather that they've finally joined the present day.
Bearing in mind these new facts and information, we would respect them if designing the study in the present day.
Back to the present day, I accidentally uncovered a juvenile adder while weeding the vegetable garden on Tuesday – something that will equally stay in my mind for years.
Her influence continues to the present day.
The present day is different.
