“... at Oswald’s, a private members’ club in Mayfair, where guests were treated to jeroboams of white burgundy and Tempo d’Angelus. Farage even sang ‘YMCA’. But Reform has had more success with a different constituency: more than half of the donations to the party, according to the New York Times, have come from people with homes in low-tax countries ...”

“... of Nancy Reagan’s description of the Republican delegates in 1980 as ‘all these beautiful white people’. The Democrats could have little hope in 1984 of getting the better of (or even matching) the President in appeals to the ‘new spirit’. Their hope lay in getting the better of him on the issues, and it was precisely Mondale’s inability to ...”

“... Europe, but discovered European art in American galleries and museums, and above all in black and white reproductions, which he found in the thousands of art books and periodicals he studied in libraries and later bought. He looked at past and present European painting with an eye for the direct effect of formal strategy. He was unaffected by historical ...”

“... touch. The British diplomatic records – pink telegrams from the Foreign Office to its outposts, white ones sent to London from missions abroad – are full of entertaining examples. John Russell’s 1967 dispatch from Brazil begins: ‘Like the surface of the moon Rio is short of water, covered in dust and pocked with deep holes.’ American diplomats wrote ...”

“... to manage the Fore River Shipyard. After the war he took a job as a trader with the brokerage firm Hayden, Stone, though he soon learned the big money was not in brokerage but in assisting business start-ups and mergers, then managing the new companies from the inside. The sources of his investment capital didn’t come from bootlegging – Nasaw lays that ...”

“... own of what used to be called the Near East. Both authors draw on a third academic, Milica Bakic-Hayden, to describe the process of imagining the Balkans as one of ‘nesting orientalisms’. On the one hand, the region is seen as ‘irreparably oriental’ because it spent nearly five centuries as part of the Ottoman Empire. On the other, it is indisputably ...”

“... would direct Easter Parade and Summer Stock. In the scene, Garland’s character has been given a white piano for her birthday: she sits on it and is wheeled round the room by a crowd of young men in dinner jackets who are supposedly students at an all-male college. Walters himself dances with Garland as she spins round the room with a Ginger Rogers-ish ...”

“... that some of the New York intellectuals pursued all the way to the dining room of the Reagan White House as the desire to express masculine strength.McCarthy apparently ‘performed secular Jewish masculinity in her writing’ – quite a stunt for a boastfully promiscuous young Catholic. Grinberg appears to think that satire – McCarthy’s favoured ...”