“... in the corridors of power: some of the Moonie ‘sisters’ even gained permanent jobs on Capitol Hill, notably Susan Bergman, who became an assistant to the House Speaker, Carl Albert. Before long various Moonie front organisations had won the willing patronage of numerous conservative Congressmen and Senators ...”

“... was largely an autodidact, although unlike Blackmur he did have a good Classical education at the Hill School and then at Princeton. Wilson never took an advanced degree and, indeed, later made organisations of professional literary scholars like the Modern Language Association the target of his scorn and contempt. Wilson’s well-off family background was in ...”

“... and in Greenock were empty behind locked doors, with not even a sticker to identify them. Up the hill in Boglestone, the Orange Lodge looked just as it used to when I was a candidate: a low concrete bunker with bombproof grids over its windows. Nobody about. But this isn’t a ghost town. Greenock is struggling into recovery now. It is a place built for ...”

“... a version of Branagh’s own Protestant family in 1969. Buddy, the Branagh figure, played by Jude Hill, lives with his older brother and hard-pressed mother (Catríona Balfe), while his father (Jamie Dornan) comes and goes: he works as a joiner in England. A British soldier quips that he hopes Pa isn’t a joiner in one of the new armed groups: there was a ...”

“... of us think back nostalgically to two years ago when, in a similar state of exaltation, we saw Susan Boyle on her first American tour. That experience, frankly, left us in a frizzed-out blissful heap for days. Three wrinkled yet ruddy faces, tear-stained with Britain’s Got Something But What? emotion. Lucky Bev even got the SuBo concert tee. Which is ...”

“... way, he produced two of his most famous photographs: the cyclist caught gliding down a cobbled hill at the base of some stone steps in Hyères, and the man jumping over a puddle behind the Gare Saint-Lazare, captured in mid-air and reflected perfectly in the water, the pitched roof of the station behind him shrouded in mist. Madrid, 1933 Behind the Gare ...”

“... information. Two contributors in the Memorial Symposium touch interestingly on this aspect of FA: Susan Bradshaw, who remarks that Hans’s ‘greatest original invention’ may have been ‘his destined compositional outlet’, and Alexander Goehr, who claims that ‘behind the form of his Functional Analysis stood a being who really wanted to communicate ...”

“... in Harlem. City College, with its marzipan-draped gothic architecture, sat at the top of a small hill above Broadway on Convent Avenue. The college was free, and open to any qualified male student; it has been estimated that its Jewish undergraduate population in the 1930s was 80 per cent (women went to Hunter, another part of CUNY). Most of the teachers ...”

“... With the dread words ‘government’ and ‘regulation’ banned from the lexicon of the Hill, we have not entered an era of blissed-out libertarianism. Instead, lobbyists and fat cats are actually writing the legislation, rather than just pushing for it. The New York Times recently ran a front-page story its own reporter could hardly believe, about ...”

“... had much respect for The Labor Leader’; ‘In the spring of the sophomore year when she was 20, Susan Andrews told her father very calmly that she didn’t love him any more.’ There is the preoccupation with certain types of failure and humiliation; his stories return to a certain type of loser. Walter Henderson, the eponymous ‘Glutton for ...”

“... two great ‘thinking Americans’, as Fuller hoped they would be remembered.A recent book by Susan Cheever, American Bloomsbury, makes much of the erotic undercurrents that no doubt played their part in the Concord circle; besides Emerson, Fuller and Thoreau, the band of free-thinking rustics included Nathaniel Hawthorne and his artist wife, Sophia ...”

“... Min’s longing for a less immediately stultifying life.Tonks is an aphoristic writer in the sense Susan Sontag meant it: ‘to write aphorisms is to assume a mask – a mask of scorn, of superiority.’ She throws out aphorisms, and scorn, like loose change (‘beauty is not in the eye; it is in the pocket’). The novels are like Flaubert’s Dictionary of ...”

“... in 1895, of workers leaving a factory. The craggiest reflection on the centenary came from Susan Sontag – an instantly notorious essay, less birthday card than death certificate. The history of the medium took the shape of a life-cycle, she argued, and we were now in the stage of ‘irreversible decline’. Sontag mourned the loss of cinephilia, the ...”

“... though, publishers have seemed willing to take on and even promote this landlocked genre. Notting Hill Editions, which publishes essays exclusively, has established a prize of £20,000 for an unpublished submission of up to 8000 words. Fitzcarraldo awards a prize of £3000 to a book-length essay (minimum 25,000 words) not yet taken on by a publisher. There is ...”

“... never gets into a film except as part of the plot.In the evening, read at St Mark’s, Primrose Hill in aid of the appeal against the demolition of the chapel of the old Boys’ Home in Regent’s Park Road and the construction of some frightful block of flats. Church packed, people standing at the back, and though the audience is a bit sticky to start with ...”