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“... to throw light on darkness, but a scholarly falling back on convention may simplify at too high a price, imposing a shape rather than finding a meaning. And this imposed shape may damage or obscure the truth of what we have, whose actual character will contain a certain uncertainty – an uncertainty that could explain Shakespeare’s own unwish to ...”

“... much of French intellectual life into a battleground for charlatans. But I do not believe that the price needed paying; that clarity and simplicity cannot be achieved without superficiality. Moreover, it is not only the reader who gets lost in the page-long sentences: it is hard to believe that Bourdieu himself is not seriously hampered by his ...”

“... a fruit and vegetable stall, giving the gunner no time to shoot him. Sergeant Simon Alexander and Lance Corporal Jack Mizon had been in the only other vehicle and had to treat the casualties themselves since there was no medic with them. ‘Sergeant Wilkinson died straight away,’ Jack Mizon said. ‘Sergeant Black got a piece of shrapnel in his neck, but ...”

“... wonders what percentage of the original audience knew, or guessed, that two of the actors, Dennis Price and Bogarde himself, were queer too. It must have been a curious scene to shoot, with actors openly discussing matters that in their real lives they were obliged to keep very quiet about.How far​ were people, gay or straight, prepared to stick their necks ...”