“... and chop off their hands; homosexual vicars and provincial scoutmasters dread the day when some anonymous tip-off – a letter signed with a false name and address is always good enough – will cause Private Eye’s pitiless stare to be fixed on them. ‘If they’re dead they must be Vietcong’ has its local variant in ‘If they’re in the Eye they ...”

“... on Ibn Battuta, the most famous and restless of wandering writers, he is more interested in his anonymous entourage. Literature is a caravan, accumulating and shedding stuff as it moves across the map and time; some of this stuff is knowledge but Kilito likes to give pride of place to stories: the travellers and their entourage pick them up and load them on ...”

“... 1950s for treating seizure disorders and similar conditions. After failing with rehab, Alcoholics Anonymous, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy and all other conventional treatments for alcoholism, finding himself at what AA calls ‘rock bottom’ feeling he had nothing left to lose, Ameisen began doing research on addiction online, and stumbled on baclofen. He ...”

“... He set up pressure groups in Tehran – a political innovation in the country – which sent anonymous letters to officials and distributed leaflets and placards calling on Iranians to revolt. Angry protests erupted in major cities the following spring. Helped by the recently introduced telegraph, the mass demonstrations of the Tobacco Protest, as it ...”

“... of Alter’s goals were achieved in the 1960s in the Jerusalem Bible, an English translation by an anonymous committee (though the translation of Jonah has been attributed to Tolkien), directed by Alexander Jones, of a decades-long French project by the (Catholic) School of Biblical Studies in Jerusalem. It is without literary pretension and its ...”

“... Henry Savile, in the late 16th century. It contains twelve bizarre illustrations, added by another anonymous individual some time after the texts were completed. The Pearl Manuscript, as it is usually called, is the only surviving anthology of alliterative poetry, and the sole exemplar of the poems it contains.There is no getting around the weirdness. We ...”

“... several years after the diamond magnate Julius Wernher had bought Saint Michael as the work of an anonymous Provençal master, that further panels were added to Bermejo’s corpus (which now comprises about twenty works). These included the Triptych of the Virgin of Montserrat and four panels from a lost altarpiece, known as Christ the Redeemer, which are ...”

“... these come the tourists. In a mighty view of the mighty Pantheon they gather in the centre – anonymous, scale-giving manikins. Outside Notre Dame they queue, scurry and wander in ant-like, indeterminate activity. We get closer to them in photographs of church and gallery interiors: in the Vatican a blurred scrum, in the Hermitage a crowd of ...”

“... Lovecraft and his ‘black seas of infinity’, but Thacker finds it expressed most fully in an anonymous poem called ‘The Subharmonic Murmur of Black Tentacular Voids’, to which he devotes his final chapter. In a flat, objective tone, the poem delineates a dead world:Temperature constrains all lifeIn the permafrost,Hibernating for millions of years ...”

“... enough in the culture. For example, when the figure appears in art here, it is almost always anonymous and abused. Two hundred years ago the human body represented an ideal of transcendent beauty; today it is far more likely to signify a reality of everyday subjection.Some early reports have deemed this Biennale ‘conservative’. What this means ...”

“... structures of state and church and acknowledges their authority.Perhaps as a result, the paint is anonymous – the character of a mark does not attract attention to itself except when a change of surface texture – say, between one fabric and another – must be registered. (David would let this French tradition of brushwork be the vehicle for political ...”

“... the UK, Australia, Canada, France, Italy and Spain; a further ten countries wished to remain anonymous. After the announcement, Spain, Italy and France said that their naval vessels would continue to operate in the Red Sea, but their forces would not be under US command. The number of named participants now stands at ten (not including Spain, Italy and ...”

“... fulfilment’ of her promises to Mende elders (who remain, nevertheless, with one exception, anonymous). What we have, in fact, is not a revelation of the mysteries of Sande, but a respectful approach to them, by an art historian who has tiptoed where anthropologists feared to tread. She found, she said, that Mende women were willing, even keen, to talk ...”

“... own. The voice of a couple of the ‘East’ stories hovers between written and spoken, between anonymous Standard English narration and the inflections of an Indian or Pakistani man in the street. The latter would not be likely to say, ‘The bus was brightly painted in multicoloured arabesques,’ whereas the former would not say of a rickshaw-puller’s ...”

“... protected sugar loaves. But between those writers who wrote for the happy few, and the mass of anonymous hacks who pandered to the ready market of the credulous and the curious, there were writers such as Dumas who ought to demand our attention and concern. Why was it that he was so famous that wherever he went he was the centre of interest and ...”