“... and inscribed with the date 1456, which is one of the first portrait busts made since antiquity. Ronald Lightbown, in the course of trying to discover more about the sitter for the catalogue of the museum’s collection which he was working on with Pope-Hennessy, discovered a manuscript autobiography by Chellini which revealed that he had been a friend and ...”

“... Joseph Torra’s latest novel, The Bystander’s Scrapbook, opens in 1984, the year Ronald Reagan was re-elected President. In Somerville, Massachusetts, as in the rest of the country, corporate growth and gentrification are changing the face of neighbourhoods that once boasted a mix of ethnic traditions: a tenement that housed Hispanic families is overhauled and made into condos for white yuppies; colourful dives, the Italian cobbler’s shop and the Greek breakfast joint are torn down to make room for a new mall ...”

“... of the world, she says, she believes in the wheel of rebirth. Those, like her adored brother Ronald, killed at Dunkirk, who are ‘so advanced, so up’, go on to the Fourth Dimension (it sounded very upper-case). The rest of us get reborn in incremental stages. ‘They say to me how can you bear India when you see them living on the pavement? They are ...”

“... it is the ex-soldier’s turn to feel sick, muttering: ‘Mutilation – I can’t take it – oh, Christ.’ The boy reads some of the soldier’s writing about his experiences of war: ‘It never ceases to exist, because while it is flourishing its language and its songs become part of the experience of children, growing into a heroic nostalgia, so that once ...”

“... more controversially after the unfashionable but extreme heresies of The Last Temptation of Christ. They are therefore attractive figures for Faber, who are launching a welcome new series of director-based film books (they have been publishing screenplays for some time). Since the mid-Seventies, Britain has been lamentably served in this respect, with ...”

“... Canadian-reared humorist, has a single entry in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations: ‘Lord Ronald ... flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions’ (1911). Innumerable speakers, writers and politicians have helped themselves to this very serviceable joke; Leacock himself, writing in old age, used it without acknowledgment to ...”

“... articles, which Masur ably summarises here. The most influential accounts, by J. Anthony Lukas and Ronald Formisano, offer sympathetic portraits of Boston’s working-class whites, who, it’s argued, were the victims of class prejudice on the part of ‘limousine liberals’ like Judge Garrity. Sanctimonious suburbanites could escape the remedies that they ...”

“... Latin. Toynbee was not as good at this as his father-in-law Gilbert Murray or his own contemporary Ronald Knox: but he was good enough to win a Balliol scholarship, which he followed up with First Classes in both Mods and Greats and a Balliol Fellowship in Ancient History. Saved by an opportune attack of dysentery from the holocaust of the First World War, he ...”

“... would have had his way if Carter had remained in office for another term. ‘However, in 1980, Ronald Reagan became our president – PRAISE THE LORD! Along with the election of a conservative, pro-life (life defined as beginning at conception), pro-family (family defined as those related by blood, marriage or adoption), Christian (believer in the life and ...”

“... John Malalas gives him the honour of executing Pontius Pilate: ‘Why did he hand the Lord Christ over to the Jews,’ his Nero asks, ‘for he was an innocent man and worked miracles?’ How, Champlin asks, can we account for these discordant versions? Why was it that some people in antiquity paid ‘allegiance to an image of the emperor quite ...”

“... Right, however. Smith had been appropriated on the Left as the author of proto-Marxian incunables. Ronald Meek, in particular, prized his four-stage theory of the progress of mankind – from the age of hunters to the age of commerce via the ages of shepherds and agriculture – for its materialist interpretation of history. Winch and his followers were ...”

“... He never admits to becoming a Marxist (indeed he seems to regard Marx as one might regard the Christ who expelled the moneylenders from the Temple): ‘but I am trying to introduce Marxism into the mainstream of the British Labour Party debate because, frankly, without it I believe the Party has no future.’ This in turn is sometimes justified by a ...”

“... that he’d been expelled for homosexuality. He was then privately educated by the redoubtable Ronald Knox, and at Oxford, still under Knox’s spell, devoted himself to religion with such seriousness that he was generally expected to become a Catholic. Crookshank, meanwhile, became an ardent freemason. They both worked hard: Macmillan got a First in Mods ...”

“... open … advancing onwards far/beyond the flaming ramparts of the world’ (the translation is Ronald Melville’s). One of Lucretius’ gifts is to make the invisible visible, by revealing the secret workings of the universe.A central argument of his materialist philosophy is that death is nothing to us. Rather than promising a cosy afterlife, he seeks to ...”

“... help him fulfil God’s will for his life ... She is to submit to him just as she would submit to Christ as her Lord. This places the responsibility of leadership upon the husband where it belongs. In a sense submission is learning to duck, so God can hit your husband! He will never realise his responsibility to the family as long as you take it.’ What ...”