“... accounting for between 60 and 65 per cent of the peninsula’s urban population. While they may have converted out of fear for their lives, many New Christians were eager to integrate into mainstream Christian society. They joined religious orders, sponsored family chapels in churches and cathedrals, and married Old Christians. Some sought additional ...”

“... its mind, arguing that the rebel corridor was provisioning the army garrison. When I returned in May, the rebel patrols had been replaced by checkpoints manned by RSF soldiers. Near one of them, the roadside was strewn with open suitcases, clothes and schoolbooks. Witnesses said that all civilians leaving El Fasher had their possessions searched by the RSF ...”

“... mirror – heir, in this, to the Winnicottian mother. Here, and elsewhere, the Anglophone reader may be reminded of the importance of this theme in English literature, as in Donne’s ‘The Good-Morrow’ (‘My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears’) or Shakespeare’s proto-structuralist joke about infidelity in The Merchant of Venice, when ...”

“... models abroad to be followed and traditions at home to be honoured or discarded. The framing may take years, as one draft is discredited or superseded by another. Each part of each scheme has to fit the rest in a sort of working engine of process and constraint. That surely requires expertise. But how is constitutional expertise reconciled with the ...”

“... afford expensive lawyers, but his suit against Dentsu Aegis didn’t go the way he’d hoped. In May the investment bankers Oppenheimer Holdings stepped into the breach, only to discover that the Glen was no longer willing to host. Woodstock Fifty is dead in the water. A rival anniversary event near the original site could yet happen, but Lang set his ...”

“... maid has lit a fire, And shut-out January relights desire. Don’t laugh; Childe Harold may be grey and paunchy, A lame, ex-English, ex-Scottish ex-Romantic Soon to be ex-everything, including ex-raunchy. But still I’ll have a gaudy night, not frantic Like forty years ago; and at dawn she ’ll re-tell, re-live, forgive each aging antic. All ...”

“... The tragedy is not so much that Cherish died as that she had to die in hospital. And from Louisa May Alcott, Mackay has made the courageous choice of Beth’s last days. If we let ourselves read Alcott and Collins in the spirit in which they were written, we get to the very heart of loss. Happiness is rare in these stories. Elizabeth Jolley’s ‘Five Acre ...”

“... by Islam. They play little or no role in art or design and probably never have done, which may account, Goody suggests, for the oddly limited colour vocabulary in African languages. The lack of any tradition of floral crowns or garlands and the absence of indigenous perfumes provide further evidence. Why should this be? Goody seeks the answer first of ...”

“... is significant. MacNamara plonks his people down in ‘the very middle of Ireland’ – where, we may suppose, Irish awfulness takes its fullest form. (Taking his cue from this location, perhaps, the parodist Flann O’Brien – with considerably more exuberance – creates his oddly sited Corkadoragha, in The Poor Mouth, from which views of Kerry, Donegal ...”

“... documents demonstrates that Marie’s chaplain wrote the work. De Amore’s date of composition may be half a century later than the period (the 1180s) favoured by Walsh: any time between 1174 and 1238 is possible. The very existence of the courts of love upon whose judgments Andreas is assumed to have drawn has been seriously doubted, while the equation of ...”

“... Vietcong hide-out in the Southern capital. Many readers, while enjoying Burchett’s racy style, may be critical of his opinions; there are also errors of fact. During the negotiations between the North Vietnamese and the Americans in Paris, Burchett writes of a misunderstanding between the chief American negotiator, David Bruce, and Henry Kissinger, who had ...”

“... in the satisfaction of its own wants’. Marx combined with Parkinson, perhaps. Professor Kiernan may have no master-key, but he does have a model: a general picture of the relationship between society and the state in this period which distinguishes it from the late Middle Ages and also from the 18th century. Marxists describe the 16th and 17th centuries as ...”

“... scientific reasons at any given stage for deciding how these boundaries are to be drawn, but it may be accounted a philosophical task to bring these reasons to light. Having concluded that a theory is ‘a family of structures’, reserved the title of ‘appearances’ for ‘the structures which can be described in experimental and measurement ...”

“... years on, the place still packs a thrill. Several reserves of greenery survive, And now mankind may look but must not kill Some animals might even stay alive, Surrounded by attentive four-wheel-drive Toyotas full of tourists who shoot rolls Of colour film off in the cheetah’s face While she sleeps in the grass or gravely strolls With bloody cheeks back ...”

“... Lloyd George, and the sphinx herself, Nadia, who is certainly an actress and a beauty and may be a KGB agent as well. Much talk of improvisatore, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, small or big tits, Akhmatova, Isadora Duncan, suspenders etc. ‘I asked him if he didn’t think it was slightly immoral, mixing reality and fiction,’ one character ...”