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“... began to be infected, hepatitis C hadn’t even been named, and HIV/Aids was entirely unknown; new protocols were introduced once the dangers became clear. According to Margaret Thatcher, ‘all patients received the best treatment available in light of the medical knowledge at the time.’ These claims were not true.In​ 1970, Richard Titmuss ...”

“... protested against,’ he wrote in the year of Emma’s death,is the mixing of fact and fiction in unknown proportions. Infinite mischief would lie in that. If any statements in the dress of fiction are covertly hinted to be fact, all must be fact, and nothing else but fact, for obvious reasons. The power of getting lies believed about people through that ...”

“... the sort of thing which in our own time Sir John Hackett would fully understand. It has not been unknown in great soldiers; neither was Lawrence’s other quality, a dishevelled contempt for punctilio and natty dress; Oliver Cromwell, no less, was referred to in awe as ‘that sloven’. Lawrence, for all his fervour and dash of fanaticism, was soft-voiced ...”

“... and repression, has disabled Paul’s car. Paul arrives too late, finds his grief baffled by an ‘unknown smile’ on Agnes’ dead face: ‘it was meant for someone he did not know and it said something he did not understand.’ It was meant for no one. Agnes had not wanted anyone to see her dying, or to die into anyone’s world. She had longed for a realm ...”

“... as it is social. Moreland remains fascinating because, in his unsecretive, entertaining way, unknown – an individual. At the end of the sequence, the aesthetic and contemplative Nick has to face the fact that of all his old associates his most constant fellow-traveller has been the gross careerist, Widmerpool. Ironies of this kind may be allowed to ...”

“... deal of his thousand words describing, without giving away too much about, the plot of a novel unknown to his audience. If the resulting articles do not always reprint well, a similar unevenness is to be found in the political pieces, some of which seem to have been included merely to remind us of their author’s radical credentials. Such tired writing as ...”

“... under test can thus always be accommodated by assuming an equipment malfunction or by assuming an unknown factor in the experimental environment; in other words, it can be treated as an anomaly rather than a refutation. And this is not merely a logical point; every successful scientific theory has co-existed with a certain number of anomalous test ...”

“... apologises to du Maurier’s children for exposing ‘events in their mother’s life which were unknown to them and which have proved painful for them to discover’. The apology is seemly, but she must have had qualms when explaining that du Maurier had wished ‘all truth’ to be told after her death, for, as she has shown, the truth as it is commonly ...”

“... that in a democratic age civil society must rest on common membership of a national culture, is unknown to it. Gellner’s account is in large part avowedly historical and backward-looking, spending a good deal of time on why the Marxist project was such a ruinous failure in the Soviet Union. This is perhaps a pity, since it means he has little to say on ...”

“... Meanwhile Horizon had folded and been replaced after a while by Encounter, funded by the CIA, unknown to its editor Stephen Spender or to Cyril, whose intermittently oppressive patronage Spender seems to have borne with remarkable kindness and forbearance. He was to publish Connolly’s last and unfinished attempt in his own inimitable style of ...”

“... who became more and more odd, pickled and antiquated, keeping up customs and manners which, unknown to them, had lost currency ‘back home’. This is a risk for all exiles but especially for Irish ones because our remembered Ireland was itself mesmerised by coercive memories. Ireland, in some reckonings a ‘victim country’, long ago developed the ...”

“... novel Mr Fortune’s Maggot catches the religious tone. Mr Fortune is a missionary who goes to an unknown island with the object of bringing Christianity to the hitherto happy natives. He makes only one convert, a boy with whom he falls in love. Having built an altar and ecstatically celebrated the Eucharist, he finally comes to and finds the naked boy ...”

“... a spot of fine living in Lady Gregory’s Coole Park, he snatches time to drop gracious notes to unknown authors who have sent him their work, usually just when his eyesight is playing him up. The latter part of the volume records his trip to the United States, where like his compatriot Oscar Wilde before him he swapped his poetic trinkets for the ...”

“... handy, too – kitchen boys, black slaves; no one is secure, for the King himself, his royalty unknown, has made a cuckold of a demon, while the demon slept like still grass through the transports of his accomplished wife’s newest adultery. In order to avoid being deceived a second time, King Shahriyar decides to marry for one night only, devouring, like ...”

“... he owned and no doubt studied a score of Parsifal; if we could study his musical sketches (another unknown treasure of Sant’Agata) we might learn a good deal more about his progress as a composer. His early operas were sometimes blatant in their scoring; nearly all of them contain extraordinary inventions that herald the flexibility of the late works, a ...”