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“... there is something rather comic in Pitt and Robespierre scaring each other as beings of a new and unknown species, like Papageno and Monostatos. As he himself admits at the outset, Ehrman has an almost impossible task. ‘The central volume of a biography, it has been said, should be the keystone of an arch.’ Unfortunately, Pitt’s arch sags badly in the ...”

“... of bringing the author’s sources, and to some extent their credibility, onto the page. It is not unknown for the serried forces of three-digit footnote references that parade past the eye in scholarly books to conceal uncritically treated, if assiduously accumulated, materials. Mr Williams is good, for instance, on J.S. Mill as an authority on Lewes’s ...”

“... as well. This is not to belittle the learning of some of Bede’s contemporaries, known and unknown – men to whom Wormald does full justice – but the fact remains that their main value to the historian of the seventh and early eighth centuries is the contrasting light they throw on the vast structure erected by Bede. It requires an effort not to see ...”

“... Karl, an architect and alderman of German stock. Karl’s origin causes problems which were not unknown, at the period in question, to the present diarist, who was fairly far, however, from ever being taken for an enemy spy, and who did not take himself to have been cleft, as Richard is, by the embarrassments of a semi-enemy name. But I still resented the ...”

“... in the Lady Lever Art Gallery, Port Sunlight. A bony, pre-pubescent, nude girl (a subject quite unknown to Classical art) sleeps in a feverish attitude upon a bed of snow which floats upon a glassy block of pale-green banded onyx. The tight and silky surface of the skin is contrasted with the soft powdery texture of the snow, which is itself ...”

“... young man, his eyes fixed on facts and minute details, sinking or sliding giddily off into the unknown.’ This is the slide which Bishop effected in ‘The Fish’, in which density of description, a meticulous anatomising which builds as it strips, becomes an acknowledgment of strangeness and of fellowship. There is, Bishop wrote, no division between the ...”

“... adds up to a pretty straightforward endorsement of father Freud, especially when we arrive at the unknown territory of the Bootman story and find the familiar story awaiting us: ‘While he always got along with his mother, a warm, sympathetic woman who adored him, Tom’s relationship with his father was uneasy; they were often at odds.’ Here we are even ...”

“... and was given prime viewing time on television. In fact, the authors of this crime are still unknown and, whether they are French or foreign, they are totally unrepresentative of any French political tendency whatsoever. Yet when it happened a wave of suspicion towards so-called Giscardian France submerged American public opinion from coast to coast. I ...”

“... more minutely the details of the case on which he is working and its hinted relationship to the unknown side of his father’s life. The office has facilities ‘for obtaining almost unlimited access into the darker byways of other people’s lives’, but it is apparent that this investigative potential is a dangerous one because it can destroy harmless ...”

“... Duffy is nothing if not prolific, but until relatively late in her career Miss Behrens was unknown outside Cambridge. There she had the reputation of a sharp lecturer and scourge of doctoral dissertations and unpublished manuscripts. These critical qualities made her scholarly name overnight in 1963 when she deployed them in a brilliant article on ...”

“... have been reportage, leavened with anguished comment, rather than reviews: At a time and place unknown, at a secret trial conducted by anonymous judges and prosecutors, Nagy and three of his associates were condemned to death. The world learned of the trial, the verdict and the executions from one brief announcement on 17 June 1958. No bodies were handed ...”

“... pretends. Although his surviving family halfheartedly claimed that Thyrza must have been an unknown young woman who died in 1811, E.H. Coleridge established beyond doubt that the poems were written in memory of John Edleston, a 15-year-old Trinity choirboy with whom Byron fell in love in October 1805. And Marchand has subsequently fleshed out the ...”

“... they missed the point. The analogy between the human brain, and the manifest outcomes of its unknown processes, and the general-purpose computer more and more dominated Turing. So was born the study of artificial intelligence, the ‘AI’ now flourishing as a separate discipline in many universities and research institutes all over the world. In the ...”

“... before I first came to this country in my midteens, the concept of a middle or upper class was unknown to me; of the ‘proletariat’ and, for that matter, the bourgeoisie I had heard from my boringly Marxist girlfriend. Nor would it have been possible in Vienna to talk about football – players or spectators – in terms of class. I knew the occupations ...”

“... intolerable,’ and we realise with a sense of shock that the discomforts of life in Bucharest are unknown to him. No other novels set in the period convey so clearly the fact that war is hardly ever total, and that British, French and Germans were rubbing shoulders in neutral countries while Paris was being occupied and the Dunkirk evacuation taking ...”