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“... to the Open University). In turn, industrial change meant fewer unskilled manual jobs and more white coats and white collars. Mrs Thatcher had clearly sought to capture this new meritocracy. But – so the Gang of Four argued – many of these classless voters wanted to break free from the old class-based parties. They ...”

“... mirror the nation. The Victorian invention of the lobby correspondent, a role filled by men like William White or Henry Lucy, brought parliamentary debates alive for the newspaper reader. The correspondents usually did this by dwelling on the MPs’ individuality: their mannerisms, their dress, their hobby-horses. This humanised the institution and ...”

“... of 1964 and George Brown) and will promote information technology and biotechnology (‘the white heat of a new industrial revolution’ revived). But he then shows a lack of coherence that suggests that he neither understands nor cares. Labour ‘should become a party of sound money’ because its supporters are the worst hit by inflation (not, on the ...”

“... by surrenders on the spot. We next had about a quarter of an hour of cavalry, a long bunch of white ponies trotting in columns of fours, then browns, then piebalds, then whites, all briskly but less fast than tanks. The procession was of course starting just behind us; I do not understand how its trip round the town was arranged. Apparently the square was ...”

“... media academic called Jean-Michel Leibowitz; her friend Dominique Rossi, a gay activist; and William Miller, an unbalanced young man who is Dominique’s lover for a time and then spends the rest of his life trying to destroy him. William’s behaviour drives much of the plot, as he becomes a writer and a minor media ...”

“... on in her mind: I submitted to my degradation, she says, with patience and humility, my soul is as white as a swan – but at last: J’ ai voulu trop bien faire, et je n’ aime plus Bruno, et me voilà damnée! The cries of Bruno at crucial points have just the same ringing quality. We see him in fatuous contentment, though the stage directions insist that ...”

“... he is in his strangeness under his mountainous coat, his hands like wet leaves stuck to the half-white stick? Hands ‘like wet leaves’ may not seem threatening, but they do induce a disquiet like that conjured by Beowulf’s damp, half-human creature. Morgan’s poetry, which demonstrates the humanness of the monster and the inhumanity of the human, is ...”

“... debates of the last twenty years. The editor-in-chief of this immense project is William Roger Louis, an American – though famously Anglophile – scholar. When he was appointed dismay was expressed in conservative newspapers at the thought that a quintessentially British historical experience was to be in the hands of some renegade ...”

“... Robinson (whose revised Wilkie Collins, A Biography came out in 1974) and now, preeminently, to William Clarke, we now know much more – especially about Collins’s family affairs, or scandals, as they would have seemed to his contemporaries. As its title suggests, The Secret Life of Wilkie Collins is sensational stuff, both in the Victorian and modern ...”

“... to something that exists only in the mind. What is the ‘real’ colour of an object that looks white by day, orange under a street light and pink through rose-tinted spectacles? However, the source of my own moments of disassociation is not, I think, epistemological but a by-product of time spent painting watercolours from life, an activity that has ...”

“... On 15 September​ , 26-year-old Arthur Medici was killed by a great white shark off Newcomb Hollow Beach in Cape Cod, Massachusetts. He was thirty yards from the shore, boogie boarding, when the shark attacked. A witness says that everything was calm until he saw ‘a giant eruption of water’ and then ‘a tail and a lot of thrashing ...”

“... of the information he has collected. Here is a typical sentence: ‘The revived interest in the White House wiretaps also prompted William Sullivan, who was then in the midst of a power struggle with J. Edgar Hoover, to visit Robert Mardian, head of the Justice Department’s Internal Security Division, and warn him, as ...”

“... placed for shoulder. These lines and shapes precipitate a face, itself un-outlined, from out of white space, the unmistakable head of Harpo Marx. Turn a few more pages of Wendy Wick Reaves’s spectacular book Celebrity Caricature in America, the catalogue for an exhibition at the Smithsonian in Washington DC until 23 August, and you will also learn ...”

“... views as Liberal transport spokesman had contributed towards the Labour Government’s transport White Paper, and he became a major influence on the making of the Alliance. Emollience was not his natural quality, but an open mind and a shrewd common sense enabled him to win the trust of both David Owen and David Steel. His sudden death removed what would ...”

“... they doing, Mum?’ the boy asked, his eyes wide with fear, his face drained white and exhausted. She shook her head and tried to push the hair back off her face. ‘I don’t know,’ she whispered. ‘Why’re you laughing?’ ‘I don’t know.’ She held her breath, trying to control her shaking. She closed her eyes, and felt ...”