“... personality, intentionality and the unity of the subject. ‘The interviewer had to be a complete unknown,’ Salusinszky says, ‘in order to become a transparent cipher for the thoughts of the interviewees.’ This is fine, and shows an awareness of the potential difficulties, but it bears little relation to Salusinszky’s practice in the book. At one ...”

“... profession. Paper wars litter the medical history of earlier centuries, and real duels were not unknown (two Jamaican doctors managed to slay each other at ten paces in the 18th century). Prima facie, this occupational violence runs against all expectation. For wasn’t medicine a ‘profession’? And haven’t sociologists been telling us all these years ...”

“... Union. Further, those fortunate enough to be in work now experience a sense of job insecurity unknown in living memory. Along with many commentators – J. K. Galbraith, for one, with his conception of a ‘culture of contentment’ made up of an affluent majority and a submerged and abandoned underclass – Bramwell does not take adequate account of the ...”

“... Etudes. Dumont was a student of Marcel Mauss and a contemporary of Lévi-Strauss who was virtually unknown to the literate public before the mid-Seventies. Only with the collapse of the intellectual Left did French readers discover through his work that one could be a non-Marxist, non-structuralist anthropologist. If Dumont’s research was inspired by any ...”

“... roasting everyone in town except for her and Ethel and an old opal miner. A tiny group, fate unknown behind the smoke, is making a dash for Brisbane and freedom in a stolen Land Rover. This is major drama. A change of wind and our threesome in town may be incinerated too. And what does the eager reader get? Jess’s untimely meditations on the art of ...”

“... spreading, of clean stocks being infected by new arrivals, is very great. Many suspect that an unknown new disease might be causing the slow growth and high mortality which are now being observed in oysters from south-western France. Some have even suggested that Pacific oysters might themselves have carried a disease that finished off the ...”

“... and your ignorance. And very often it may not even be possible to alter that ratio of known to unknown, however the absolute amount of your knowledge grows: some systems are simply not mechanistic in a way that allows their changing states to be predicted. The famous example is weather. Fortunately, as Tenner points out, it is not often the case that ...”

“... the Expert Committee, on which was written: ‘This stamp is a variety unchronicled and hitherto unknown to the Expert Committee. Having regard to the lapse of time since this stamp was issued, the Committee hesitates to express a very decided opinion upon the specimen, but after close examination they believe it to be genuine.’ Stanley Gibbons asked him ...”

“... you want to ‘share’. But if you have a syndrome, you have an audience, and if its causes are unknown, you have a mission – to find out what they are – which can enlist the sympathy and attention of medical practitioners. A syndrome offers those who may be having a hard time the validation of the victim’s role. Validation seems to be the key here ...”

“... Newtonian gravitational theory speculated that the perturbations might be produced by a hitherto unknown planet, and their theory-based calculations told them where to point their telescopes. In much the same way, mathematical models of developmental processes can guide molecular biologists as they deploy powerful tools in the search for particular kinds of ...”

“... black wool as for a warm pall, one introducing, introducing continuously to the unknown, the other scrutinising the cheery and foolish faces with unconcerned old eyes. Avel Old knitter of black wool,’ he continues. ‘Morituri te salutant. Not many of those she looked at ever saw her again – not half, by a long way.’ Door of ...”

“... Grandfather impregnated a Berber maid and allowed her to be cast off; so his son has an unknown indigène sibling. And at one point Sagesse discovers that her father, who turns out to be a womaniser, has left Etienne in a dark lift in order to go to bed with a woman he has picked up. But the curse on the family is not just a matter of inherited ...”

“... for Fr Leahy, but only as it once was for those early Christian monks who rowed away into the unknown. All Trevor’s narrative gifts are evident in this story. The short paragraphs, cut and chiselled, are those of a puritan stylist. Vital pieces of information are quietly slipped in in mid-paragraph. The technique is the Joycean epiphany: a state of ...”

“... the strange, labyrinthine rock-churches, hewn out about eight hundred years ago by workmen still unknown. On the night before my return to Addis, and thence to Europe, I sat in a house in the friendly, dirt-poor village. It belonged to the family of my guide for the day, a cheerful, intelligent, devoutly Christian young man in his early twenties called ...”

“... tradition, on the one hand, and the various vernacular Indian traditions on the other (mostly unknown outside India, except to diaspora audiences). The opportunities English offers the novelist – apart from anything else, as a lingua franca for the educated in a multilingual society – are balanced against the loss of the sense of belonging that ...”