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“... decisive achievements in all fields are impersonal and their authors are for the most part unknown.’ Le Corbusier’s various urban plans, steadily developed from 1922 onwards into what became known as the Ville Radieuse, incorporated all that Wright detested. In it ‘the discoverer’ proposed an apartment city with a population density of 400 ...”

“... newspaper. Scharf’s London of course is Dickens’s London too. One can easily imagine them, unknown to each other, repeatedly passing on the streets and loitering to take in a new sight, each storing up the characteristic particulars of a given locale, Scharf with sketch-pad in hand, Dickens with its equivalent in his absorbent senses and memory. In ...”

“... tale of how ‘our douce Scotch Commander-in-Chief’ stopped for coffee at an estaminet which, unknown to him but not to passing Staff, a notorious lady from Paris had ‘staffed with some winsome daughters of Rahab’? This incident is one of a hundred-odd entries listed under ‘Anecdotes’ in the index, which is clearly Dunn’s own loving work. He was ...”

“... model press has ended, with a reduction of consumer choice, and a squashing of heresies almost unknown in scale since the Inquisition. There is a second threat to freedom which needs to be considered, and which derives from the ‘moral majority’. There is nothing new about this either. In the old battle of the books the political and the moral ...”

“... and all the rest of the IPC. In the face of a threat like that, the more speculative menace of an unknown young Australian pip-squeak looked a good deal less immediate. So the deal was done on 26 September 1969, for a giveaway price of under £1 million – about one pound for each of the Sun’s dwindling number of readers. The Cudlipp Sun finally set on ...”

“... is not easy to assess) and to move into an uncertain future in a land full of promise but full of unknown hazards, too. The wonder of this levée en masse, which has no parallel in history, is its lack of that ghastly ‘Germanic’ earnestness which in the past has so often spilled over into aggressiveness, fanaticism and violence; and its rehabilitation of ...”

“... to him, his terror ‘at the possibility of some packet’s being lost, given away, let lie in unknown hands for a time, and then turning up to bother one’s survivors and make them ashamed of one’.The reference here is to Eliza Flower, to whom Browning was romantically attached in his boyhood; and, as he wrote to R.H. Horne: one day Eliza told me to ...”

“... central character, Parker Jagoda (terrific name), is a 37-year old architect-turned-developer who, unknown to his photographer’s-model wife Barbara, has been placing ads in the lonely hearts columns of the local papers. The book begins with Parker on the way to one of the ensuing dates. It rapidly becomes evident that all isn’t well with him: he has a ...”

“... this smooth and wealthy world, and has something of the effect of Daniel Drouin’s wisecrack. An unknown criminal has been dismantling grand pianos in bankers’ houses, skillfully taking the instruments apart and stacking the pieces against a wall or in a fireplace. The malefactor is never caught, and his motives can only be guessed at. Has he ...”

“... in the London Review of Books. An authentic report has been brought back from somewhere exotic and unknown, the pavements of this city. And as the gadarene and glitz-fed sprint of enterprise capital attempts to corral any citizens with loose change in their pockets into Fort Apache-style ex-industrial ruins, such as the Bow Quarter, so life outside, street ...”

“... and children, whose bodies were then slung onto the backs of trucks before being driven off to an unknown grave. Multiple killings of Serbs were recorded in many other towns in addition to the four mentioned, while by the Croatian authorities’ own admission, tens of thousands of Serbian houses in Croat-controlled areas were dynamited to ensure their ...”

“... morning coffee; a world in which elegance was to be cultivated and yet where taboos and reticences unknown in simpler days were cultivated also.’ Two more proposals the next year, from a commercial traveller and a cousin in La Châitre respectively, testify to Célestine’s attractiveness both sexually and socially, and to her unusual freedom of choice. The ...”

“... to the great confusion of the wicked. A man may be contentedly mowing his lawn while his wife, unknown to him, is disappearing over the rooftops, propelled upwards, to borrow Joyce’s expression, like a shot off a shovel. Not all believers expect larks on this scale, but it seems from the polls that 100 million Americans regard the Second Coming of Jesus ...”

“... land; but in the place of fairies there were thousands of little white crosses, marked ‘Unknown British Soldier’, for the most part. Until 1917, few Britons had ever encountered an American in the flesh and even fewer had come across black men, other than as comic figures in the films. The American black troops who arrived in Britain that year ...”

“... that great early impresario of the exotic. It has appealed at a general level as a substantial, unknown space into which, with the right promptings, the individual imagination could rush, expand, unfurl and luxuriate. More specifically, it has incited in Western audiences the mixture of fear and fascination which sells books. In 1822, Thomas De Quincey (who ...”