“... 1954, my parents went to Edinburgh on their honeymoon. There is a picture of them taken in Princes Street Gardens, in front of the view of the Castle, my mother is wearing her white fun fur jacket, my father is wearing a big smile; they look full of their moment and altogether content. No one knows why they went to Edinburgh, they just wanted to, and after ...”

“... present in these people’s minds. Meanwhile, over by the windows, in the tartan glory of 23rd Street, other people stood and they stared out at the missing towers, and some of them pointed to the view of the Statue of Liberty and the view of Ellis Island. As I made for the exit, I wondered if any of those at the windows were prompted by the drowned-out ...”

“... course, as the last march I went on was in 1956 and that was by accident: I was standing in Broad Street in Oxford watching the Suez demonstration go by when a friend pulled me in.Today it’s bitterly cold, particularly since the march keeps stopping or is stopped by the police, who seem bored that they’ve got so little to do, the mood of the march ...”

“... mid-1950s Gaberbocchus was doing well enough to be promoted to premises of its own, at 42a Formosa Street, just around the corner from the Themersons’ flat. With the new space, an idea was conceived to open a club, the Gaberbocchus Common Room, whose aim, as ever, would be a kind of mediation: ‘to provide artists and scientists and people interested in ...”

“... poor, romantic Eveline – opts for ‘some domestic form of Home Rule in North Richmond Street’, or ‘alternatively’, if she can be termed ‘an abstensionist’, he is being either fatuous or facetious. The book covers roughly the same ground as ‘ “The Protestant Strain” ’ (playfully subtitled ‘A Short History of Anglo-Irish ...”

“... in the Russian Arctic and Far East. Weeks before Russia seized Crimea in February 2014, the Wall Street bank Morgan Stanley agreed to transfer most of its oil business to Rosneft, which it had a few years earlier helped take public and whose top financial ranks were filled with people who had worked at the bank, including its former CEO John Mack. Exxon also ...”

“... of talk about the threat to literature of ‘standardisation’, ‘the machine age’ and ‘main street’, and critics had to work hard to avoid comparisons with advertising agents. But if, as Edmund Wilson complained, too many reviews suggested that ‘masterpieces are being manufactured as regularly as new models of motor cars,’ debunking could also ...”

“... him suspicious of every stranger.’Clarke didn’t find work easily in New York. He started as a street sweeper; at least in prison he hadn’t had to beg for work, he told his wife. He was rescued by John Devoy, who was now setting up a newspaper; he made Clarke his assistant and the paper’s general manager. Clarke was effective and self-effacing. He was ...”

“... mode discourages qualification): ‘Well, I do want them to see the way I see. Walking down the street, looking quickly about, tracking, panning, zooming, cutting and all that sort of thing. I like it when two images go together and they move. I guess it may not be considered “mature”, but I enjoy it.’ This stylistic agitation (with the inclusion of ...”

“... work as in Gilliatt’s. She writes of the film persona of Burt Lancaster or Marlon Brando or Sean Connery, all actors she likes to watch, as though these are nevertheless people we all know, and don’t have to fawn on. She never suggests she has any privileged knowledge of them off the screen, and what emerges of her non-professional life breathes a ...”

“... it.He had a miserable childhood. He was born in 1930 – within a few weeks of Clint Eastwood and Sean Connery – in Indianapolis, to an alcoholic, and, according to Sandford, semi-prostitute mother, who abandoned and reclaimed him periodically through his childhood. He spent half his early years truanting on his great-uncle’s farm in rural Missouri, and ...”

“... taps. They would all have to be turned on, Rupert insisted, and the taps of all the houses in the street, adding that he was having trouble making contact with some of the neighbours, thus forcing Nona Summers and her husband to go out and wake everyone up on their street, alerting also the management of Gateways, ‘an ...”

“... crouch from one boutique doorway to the next, white tennis shoes a blur, all the way down the street to Restoration Hardware and the Baskin-Robbins store. Five or six perplexed Palo Altans stopped to watch as she bobbed zanily in and out, ducking her head, pointing at imaginary gunmen on rooftops and gesticulating wildly at me to follow. No ...”

“... of localism and conservatism, and centre on issues arising from changes in land use or occupation. Sean Connolly’s hitherto unpublished account of the ‘Houghers’ outbreak in Connaught in 1711-12 brilliantly overcomes the problems of scanty source-material to provide a vivid anatomy of ‘Hougher’ grievances and membership, including the surprising ...”

“... of the streets in the old city would be put up in Catalan, the language he had banned, that many street names would be changed, that there would be free elections, a new Constitution, that there would be an amnesty, there would be autonomy. If we were to concentrate on change in Spain in those years I would be able to tell you that the way people walked in ...”