“... nature of thought and he was evidently possessed by a sentiment of uncompromising integrity and self-respect, a Tolstoyan pride in his autonomy and independence, and in a certain moral isolation. He happened to be of a homosexual disposition and he loved a few men, sometimes happily, sometimes not. He was prosecuted for a homosexual offence, and received a ...”

“... reflexes from the British medical establishment. Patents also drove it to bizarre extremes of self-defeating behaviour. Chain, whose father was a German industrialist, urged that patents be taken out on the penicillin process, not least because if British firms failed to do so they would find themselves paying royalties to others. Edward Mellanby, the ...”

“... revelatory experience. In his letters to Thornycroft he can be felt as virtually discovering a new self. Thornycroft (like Nellie) appears to have taken the situation in his stride, maintaining an eager pleasure in Gosse’s company, holidaying with him and making him his best man. The episode – if it can be called that – prompts a rummage. A letter of ...”

“... early twenties he developed a powerful technical apparatus; he liked to boast of being virtually self-taught in Greek, but Grafton shows that he learned much about textual criticism from Turnebus and Auratus and, later, much about the systematic reconstruction of archetypes and lost works from the great jurist Cujacius. At 24 he published valuable ...”

“... at levels which leave plant and workers idle. Yet this is indeed an equilibrium – there is no self-righting tendency, actual or thwarted, towards full capacity. This is the practical implication of the theory of effective demand, but there is also a theoretical implication. For what role is now left for interest rate? No longer the arbiter of supply and ...”

“... delivered in Oxford over a period that extends from 1928 to 1963, supplemented by a number of self-effacing but substantial contributions by Bliss himself. Both Bliss and Shippey knew Tolkien personally; both consulted him about their work; and both take him very seriously indeed. The intensity of their interest is remarkable and perhaps surprising, for ...”

“... Union, and thus illuminates the cruel dilemmas of many hundreds of thousands of talented and self-aware people, trapped in the unhappy country from which he, fortunately, managed to escape. His scientific career was outstanding, but not unconventional, even by Western standards. The clever Jewish boy, precociously brilliant at mathematics, is a familiar ...”

“... they could find their place in the Hegelian progress of everything existing towards the self-realisation of Geist. ‘Perhaps even the personal anguish of his son’s suicide and the failure of his life’s work for peace had a value and a meaning of its own, if only he were wise enough to react creatively’: readers of Charlotte M. Yonge’s ...”

“... better adapted to the pressing social needs of the times. Wolfe makes a great deal of (ultimately self-cancelling) fun of modern architecture’s alleged origins in Marxist ‘worker’s housing’ in Mittel-Europa, but shows no sense of how good, how important, that must have looked at the time. There is no mention of the architecture of the Tennessee Valley ...”

“... expense – by helping small firms, by encouraging worker co-operatives, by giving incentives to self-employment, by penalising energy-intensive technologies and fostering labour-intensive ones, by working with the social forces which are steadily enlarging the ‘black economy’ instead of against them. The second, however, is that such measures cannot ...”

“... before her into the imaginary relations she is creating is good. It is easy to imagine how a more self-conscious and workaday critic would settle down to transposing and tightening these sentences: ‘It is remarkable ...’ ‘How strange that ...’ and so on. But Pritchett’s style answers to the shape and direction of his thoughts – and to their ...”

“... law whilst defending the national interest (the nature of which is in any case far from being self-evident) is again in doubt. It has all happened with great suddenness. Last year, Reagan’s mere presence before television cameras was eagerly sought by colleagues running for re-election to the House and Senate. In the weeks prior to the polls, he ...”

“... it make any mark in the world of fiction. (Her earlier book of poetry, notable in no way, had been self-published.) At college and afterwards, she had written stories about pioneer life, but she saw no special value in that subject-matter until the Maine regional writer, Sarah Orne Jewett (whom she came to know in Boston while she was researching articles for ...”

“... a very different aesthetic from Calvino’s – in a belief, as one character puts it, ‘that the self is rooted in nostalgia and reverie, and that they are the fountains of Art’ – but no less brilliant in its ability to draw the reader into peculiarly imagined worlds. Just as Calvino’s story ‘The Name, the Nose’ exists under the shadow of ...”

“... in the frenetic battle to shore up the grossly over-extended News Corp edifice when the self-same bankers were confronted by the world recession and wanted their money back. If Shawcross is to be believed, the battle was won by a whisker. But Murdoch nevertheless remains saddled with vast debt repayments which must be completed by February ...”