"Bach & God Oxfordrd) is the splendid title of a new book by Michael Marissen, a professor emeritus at Swarthmore College.
Correction to this articleIN THE mid-1980s Rolling Stone magazine published an essay by P.J. O'Rourke, a conservative American humorist, with the splendid title "Among the Euro-Weenies".
Instead, he sat down one day, put pen to paper, and composed an article for the "Ladies Home Journall" with the splendid title "Everybody Ought to Be Rich".
For seven years Katherine lived neglected in London, her splendid title of Dowager Princess of Wales disguising her frugal housekeeping arrangements and dwindling hopes.
Six months after taking office, he switched sides with Senator Pedro Espada Jr., who was given various emoluments and a splendid title by the Republicans so that they could recapture control of the Senate.
There's also an enjoyable lesser effort, Jorge Grau's The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue, which lives up to its splendid title (one of no fewer than 15 titles it has had worldwide).
This splendid title, first awarded by the Japanese government in 1950, has been used to honour not just Kabuki, Noh and Bunraku actors, but woodblock printers, potters and other traditional craft artists.
Sods I Have Cut on the Turf Included here mainly because of its splendid title, jockey, trainer and racing journalist Jack Leach's memoirs nevertheless have some sharp things to say about the Turf fraternity, not least bookies: "Never bet with a bookmaker if you see him knocking spikes into his shoes".
But what musical satisfactions there were: Mark Delavan splendid in the title role; Jane Eaglen singing Senta in her big, true soprano; and Stephen Milling as a first-rate Daland.
