“... he pretended to quote, who as Reich Chancellor read and reread the adventure stories of Karl May which had occupied his boyhood, who locked himself into his nightly showings of Hollywood films while Germany burned. The would-be creator and composer of Zukunftsmusik, Wagnerian music of the future, was a travesty of the romantic artist, an aesthetic ...”

“... flow of soul. To his wife he stammered pathetically in 1859: ‘God grant that this Christmas time may be a time of new birth in the hearts of us all. I cannot you know speak out freely to you; you would tell me it was cant; and perhaps it might be, so hard it is to give exact expression to the inner thought, and so great the temptation to use stereotyped ...”

“... Turnpike, Find the Bridge that goes pure North! Eberhart’s lines, like much of his writing, may come a little pat. But they have a generosity of spirit and an unforced pleasure in life to which it is a relief to turn after Warren’s book. Warren has a poem called ‘Lesson in History’, a series of two-line sketches, or loaded questions, each hinting ...”

“... ten and more miles on horseback each day to a back-country high school. Even so, the differences may be less significant than the likenesses in the earliest and most formative years: middle position in a large family, love and rivalry among female siblings, early musical training, and space in which to grow, the discovery of the self set free, not in ...”

“... have been so alert to the medium’s cool tricking of the real and the abstract. Badlands may be the most serene film he ever made. A philosopher might have stopped then and there. But he was tickled by the idea of life as a moviemaker.His next film, Days of Heaven (1978), was more flagrantly beautiful and even more widely admired. It’s the story of ...”

“... the women killed by Jack the Ripper, which concentrated on their lives before autumn 1888. Crippen may be the name forever associated with the ‘North London cellar murder’, but here he is treated by Rubenhold as one character in ‘an ensemble cast brought together to tell a more panoramic and human version of one of the most infamous crimes of the early ...”

“... work, suggesting that the same judgments are not applied to choral writing. The real answer may be that, hard as this Magnificat is to sing, it has remained in the general repertory and not been dismissed along with the rest.But​ there is a long way to go with Stanford’s legacy. This many melodies cannot be judged quickly, and his sense of form ...”

“... Pakistan, to his later global status as one of the half-dozen subversives whom unpolitical people may have heard of.You Can’t Please All, from its less dramatic title on, is a different kind of book. Twice the length, covering almost half a century, from the final years of the Cold War to the current era of less predictable disorder, it is partly about ...”

“... football clubs. Vinai Venkatesham, CEO of Arsenal until last year, isn’t included (though this may change now he has an OBE), nor is the club’s American owner. There was, however, an entry for the late Sir Chips Keswick, a former club chairman, educated at Eton, son-in-law of the earl of Dalhousie and a director of the Bank of England. Sometimes Who’s ...”

“... an email with the subject line: ‘Important information about our recent cyber incident’.As you may be aware, we are currently experiencing a major technology outage as a result of a cyber attack. Following confirmation that this was a ransomware attack, we’re aware that some data have been leaked. While this appears to be from our internal HR files, we ...”

“... new terms, something which had exercised critics for years. He warned that ‘single words may enter by thousands, and the fabrick of the tongue continue the same, but new phraseology changes much at once; it alters not the single stones of the building, but the order of the columns.’ If nobody stopped the translators, the English would be left ‘to ...”

“... it’s primarily a commodity, culture becomes autonomous. Deprived of its traditional features, it may curve back on itself, taking itself as its own raison d’être in the manner of some modernist art; it is also free to serve as critique on a sizeable scale for the first time. The miseries of commodification are also an enthralling moment of ...”

“... and, just like it, the order is crucial. If the wrong amino acids stick together, the protein may not fold properly in the subsequent steps; if two helices that were supposed to nestle into each other late in the folding process come in contact too early, the final shape may not form. This problem is solved by other ...”

“... says ‘third-class passenger Daniel Buckley’ admitted seeking safety this way and there may have been others) and a Gothic phantasmagoria of ‘hermaphrodites ... showing their orifices’ in the Turkish bath and dowagers getting themselves whipped under the card table by depraved cabin boys. The official account of an orderly and even ...”

“... rabbit of the first scene. The charm of Good Behaviour is in its telling. Aroon’s narrative (it may be a journal, or interior monologue – we’re not told) is marked by total recall, habitual impercipience and odd flashes of eloquence. ‘Good behaviour’ is shown to be her guiding principle, and it preserves her in the various crises of her life. When ...”