“... proper way of dealing with nationalists and momentously decided that in the spirit of enlightened self-interest it was best to enlist their co-operation in various aspects of administration. The men-on-the-spot were never at home with this approach. Co-operation with Africans did not come naturally to them, and some detected a whiff of cynicism in the new ...”

“... she or someone else lived I might have been worth something.’ The book does not end with this self-pitying note, however. On the last page (before appendices and index) Leonard places Thomson’s translation of ‘Childhood’, a poem dedicated by Heine to his own sister. It recalls himself and her as children playing at being old, worn-out people and ...”

“... at people and positions Putnam now deplores, including his own earlier, insensitive scientistic self. Where once he was a metaphysical realist and machine functionalist, now he repudiates the idea of a ‘ready-made world’ and disavows the computer model of mind. Notorious for his capacity to change his mind, he has come to see the whole analytic style of ...”

“... journeys, is never buried very deep: here the path through trials and griefs to triumph leads to self-knowledge, and that is identified frequently with the carnal. The Grimms, as Bottigheimer shows, recast anything smacking of sex to identify it with retribution, especially where the female was concerned: Redgrove has turned their morality upside ...”

“... not even mention Pearson in his early papers, Hearnshaw interprets Burt’s historical claim as a self-serving lie. Joynson, by contrast, accepts as plausible Burt’s autobiographical statement that he first obtained Pearson’s idea from a lecture rather than a published paper, which would account for the lack of formal citation. Upon closely analysing ...”

“... of many workers and political reforms which already give them much greater opportunity for self-organisation – will mobilise the workers to overthrow the bureaucracy. At long last the age of true socialism will dawn. The large element of wishful thinking here should not, however, obscure the one positive feature of Mandel’s analysis. His Trotskyist ...”

“... The reasons why one book is so much more productive than the other are mattters of writing, of the self-inscription of each writer in her work, of the legible understandings of the task in hand. One book exists because a highly-regarded writer has visited the domain of a destructive epidemic – much as she, and Jane Fonda, once visited Vietnam. Those visits ...”

“... lived a modest life, and his work mirrors that style of personal address. But this absence of self-display should not be misread. He was serious about his poetry, and his perilous moment of initiation in 1781 is an eloquent sign of just how serious he was – a sign far more eloquent, perhaps, than the better-known symbol produced by Keats in ‘The Fall ...”

“... beyond it. Herbert is out to break into this circle. The artists he is concerned with are the self-conscious Parisians: Manet, Degas, Morisot, Monet, Caillebotte and Renoir: not Pissarro, Sisley and Cézanne, for whom the city had no appeal. His period is the Sixties and Seventies. His method is to categorise the themes that these artists painted, and ...”

“... to what was being alleged to their detriment, so every sporting picture, by representing the self-image of the sporting world, also embodied an account of the view of sport which that image was an attempt to deny or to ignore. The history Deuchar proposes has four phases. The first, in the early decades of the century, is treated as more or less a ...”

“... is first and foremost a deliberate verbal artefact, full of vertiginous punning and Post-Modernist self-consciousness. At one point Christopher, the foetus-narrator, expounds his own literary genealogy, which includes Tristram Shandy, Nikolai Gogol, Pierre Menard (author of Don Quixote) and many others of what he calls the ‘Sons of La Mancha’. Fuentes has ...”

“... He is far too modest. Anyone who tries now actually to derive what could in any but a trivial and self-serving sense be called fair division from calculations of advantage will be very brave, or a knave, though a wizard if he succeeds. We also have the most powerful account yet, in a very high pile, of Rawls himself. But what of Barry’s own more positive ...”

“... are concerned with representation in a fairly strict sense of the term – representations of the self, of gender, of power, of England. Like Greenblatt, several contributors employ the strategy of the surprising juxtaposition, placing the work of Shakespeare, Spenser, Nashe and Jonson side by side with Elizabethan miniatures, the Wunderkammern of the late ...”

“... the Piranesi streets of old Leghorn. The sky was gentian, no tragedians consoled the binding self-truth of my age; I couldn’t even claim to be your father. The effort is so eerie it seems to me Montale must have a hand in it as well as the translator. It would be interesting to know whether Montale – who published late books called Diario del ’71 ...”

“... men in the grip of a huge existential crisis. Pollitt is the most imposing, a tough fanatic of self-evident ability, confident of his views, struggling to reconcile his Englishness and his Bolshevism. ‘Please remember, Comrade Dutt,’ he says at one point, ‘you won’t intimidate me by that language. I was in this movement practically before you were ...”