“... The medievalist Marjorie Curry Woods has pointed out that schoolboys reading Pamphilus may actually have identified with Galathea. As children, they were often physically assaulted and sometimes sexually abused.Although Moriuht seems to be a poem for adults, children appear throughout the story. Sometimes they are victims. Moriuht practises his ...”

“... zombie to start with, on the grounds that the presence of appropriate representational properties may itself guarantee the presence of phenomenal subjectivity. This will follow if we adopt a ‘representational theory of consciousness’, according to which conscious properties are constituted by representational properties. On any such theory, a ...”

“... the rotor arm from the distributor, were liable to find their tyres deflated by the police. It may be that the scriptwriters of Dad’s Army missed a few tricks. Why did we not see Mainwaring’s men, like the people of Margate, filling their bathing cabins with sand to use as roadblocks? Why did we never see them (or did we?) trying out the recommended ...”

“... known, though how much resemblance it bore to the Village Powell had lived in was hard to say. It may once have felt more alive with ambition and curiosity and youth, but it struck me that this air of sadness, an inducement to writing in itself, would always have been there. Perhaps, with its being a kind of village, a certain small-town claustrophobia ...”

“... One group had already been immunised some time before with Pasteur’s new vaccine. On 31 May, they had been injected – along with the other, unimmunised group of 25 animals – with a culture of virulent anthrax bacilli. International observers, politicians, farmers, Army officers, Government officials and reporters were in Pouilly-le-Fort on 2 ...”

“... The Street of Crocodiles (1934). At the climax of the story, a shifty bookseller offers Lars what may or may not be a manuscript of Schulz’s final work, The Messiah, lost after its author was gunned down in the street by the SS in 1942. The high point of this very curious novel is Ozick’s vision of what Schulz’s lost ...”

“... now decide ‘to work to destroy the new Red order’, or will he feel that destruction itself may ‘find its best outlet within, rather than against, the Communists’? ‘Why assassinate a few bureaucrats, after all, if you could terrorise and exterminate them as a class, hundreds of thousands of them?’ This is to turn the cannibal and his colleagues ...”

“... city where ashes were beginning to cool, and in a country that would never be the same again. We may think of the man in Love in the Time of Cholera who lies beautifully and romantically to the woman he loves, not because he wants to deceive her but because he doesn’t want to disappoint her stylistic expectations. She doesn’t believe him for a ...”

“... abortion and failed to offer any alternative to the global supremacy rhetoric of his opponent. He may have turned off some undecided women voters by concealing his more liberal opinions, but his real concern was the loss of male votes if he was perceived as weak and vacillating. But although Kerry was floored by Bush’s butch strategy, the policy of not ...”

“... attracting tax breaks and subsidies for the ‘beneficial’ owners of the investing company, who may well live in the country being invested in. Most flight capital, however, leaves its country of origin permanently, much of it destined for the financial and property markets of the major Western economies. The current global aid budget of $78 billion is ...”

“... address this. Instead, he seems to date its significant onset from the postwar period (though this may be an unintended inference; it could be pure accident that the pertinent document – no source indicated – happens to come from 1946). Lewin gives better marks to Khrushchev than most commentators for his efforts to combat bureaucratisation, but these were ...”

“... of the postwar period, but old enough to have known victims of these childhood scourges, it may be hard to think of vaccination except within a narrative of progress. Almost paralysed with dread of the needles awaiting us, my sisters and I nonetheless understood ourselves to be lucky children, rescued by heroic doctors and a benevolent state from the ...”

“... but realists and pragmatists . . . Illusions,’ she continues, ‘are built on nothing: hopes may have real foundations, however fragile or temporary. This was the case with the postwar decade.’ All the same, she endorses many of the criticisms levelled at the agreement, and particularly those directed against the British. Holding the balance between ...”

“... dubbed Napoleon ‘an idea on a horse’, Miss McCarthy suggests that the Continent’s advantage may be due to the fact that they had Napoleon while we had only the Duke of Wellington. It is a bad moment in the book: less than Hegel meant, and much too wholesale a demonstration that novelists are trained to write about people rather than about ideas. To be ...”

“... Indian, then an Englishman living in India, so Mrs Kingston, born in Stockton, California in 1940, may be more Chinese than the Chinese in China. There is nothing like emigration, especially when it shows in the face, for bringing out one’s nativeness: ‘characteristics’ are accentuated in a way they never were at home. ‘What is Chinese tradition and ...”