“... plausible and durable theory of lateness. What was wrong with the old theory can be traced back to J.J. Winckelmann, the 18th-century father of art history. Taking the history of Greece as his model, he put into circulation what one contributor to the Getty volume defines as ‘the triad of development, achievement and decline’. For this unqualified ...”

“... complained in 1990. On introducing the final amendment to kill funding in 1993, Senator Richard Bryan announced: ‘This hopefully will be the end of the Martian-hunting season at the taxpayer’s expense.’ Since then, a few Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have put money into SETI and scaled-back efforts continue. With all its talk about aliens, SETI is ...”

“... featuring boutiques and nightclubs and fashionable homes, and upwardly mobile stars such as Bryan Ferry and Liza Minnelli and Ossie Clark. The London clothes shop Biba gets more entries in the index than anything else. How far the trends portrayed spread beyond the metropolis is rarely clear. A single photograph of a glamorous young Liverpool shop-owner ...”

“... used to authority-figures with an Oxbridge background the Labour Party could do worse than turn to Bryan Gould (the last Oxford don on the Labour Front Bench – and this essay was, as I remember, cheekily entitled ‘Going for Gould’ by the editors of the LRB). In his preamble to this piece, Johnson says that after he wrote it there was ‘an avalanche of ...”

“... of copies of itself. It subsequently turned out that the worm had been written by Robert Morris Jr, son of the chief scientist at the National Computer Security Centre, in what he described as an innocent experiment that went wrong. It had exploited a bug in Berkeley Unix – specifically, in Sendmail, a program designed to transmit email across any ...”

“... should be seen, he suggests, as examples of ‘semitic discourse’, a concept developed by Bryan Cheyette in Constructions of ‘the Jew’ in English Literature and Society: Racial Representations 1875-1945 (1995) who felt that anti-semitism understood as one-dimensional hatred and hostility could not yet account for the place of Jews in the English ...”

“... How should​ a visual artist respond to a culture in which the vast majority of images are produced by machines for other machines, with humans left out of the loop? This technological turn complicates basic ideas about mimesis: that images represent the world, that they are meant to be beheld by us, that they mean at all (think of facial-recognition programs alone ...”

“... that libertas is ‘from the Latin word for freedom’, but on the same page introduces the poet Bryan Waller Proctor without adding that he wrote under the pseudonym Barry Cornwall. He has an unprofessorial habit of vague assertion: ‘At the close of the 18th century the economic status of the middle class was insecure.’ His logical grasp can’t be ...”

“... ineluctable limitations: ‘art promises everything and changes nothing.’ The words belong to Bryan Appleyard, celebrating Lolita’s 40th birthday in 1995. ‘Humbert,’ he wrote, ‘is caged by his own genius ... And there is no outside.’ However, seeing Nabokov in Adair’s mirror, and contemplating the elaborate play with powerlessness this ...”

“... Bryan Carsberg of Oftel smiles up in soft brown light as he dangles in the mirror on a green office wall. Michael Meyer of Emess Lighting is dissected by the blinds that cut across him and then reassembled from outside – his shirtsleeved figure looming like a target in the formulaic eye of some Hollywood assassin ...”

“... by his grandson W.C. Hazlitt, had appeared in 1867. The reminiscences of old friends such as Bryan Procter and P.G. Patmore had also been published. Hazlitt was in vogue again: new editions were being prepared, new judgments being framed. How much Sarah knew of all this, how much it touched her, is debatable. Admirers of Hazlitt tend to wince when Sarah ...”

“... helmets, is plain wrong), but there is also an established scholarly agenda, well exposed by Bryan Ward-Perkins’s The Fall of Rome and the End of Civilisation (2005). Briefly, after World War Two the Edward Gibbon view of late antique history – Latin civilisation destroyed by Germanic barbarians – became thoroughly unwelcome in the new Europe, as ...”

“... his writings informed the anti-imperial politics of the presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan. Patel shows how Gandhi and Nehru followed Naoroji in appealing to progressive British allies, and how his arguments about the extractive nature of empire influenced many anticolonial movements. Naoroji connected the Indian cause to campaigns for freedom ...”

“... unpopular of the Mitford sisters now that Unity’s dreadful life is over. Diana left her husband, Bryan Guinness, became a Fascist and married Oswald Mosley: it is suggested in this book that Diana was even more anti-Jewish than her husband. Though the six sisters tried to remain sisterly, both Nancy and Jessica thought it right that dangerous Diana should be ...”

“... her husband in the safety of London. It was not forthcoming, and in July 1643, her home, Brampton Bryan Castle, was besieged. Lady Harley held out valiantly until the siege was lifted several weeks later, but never saw her husband or son again. In her last letter, she told her son she had ‘taken a very greate coold’, and hoped that God would restore her ...”