“... that surrounded his reputation both in his own day and afterwards, as reflected in the 1962 David Lean biopic, presenting him as the romantic hero – tall, blue-eyed, in flowing robes – he always wanted to be. His failures are familiar to anyone who has taken any serious interest in him, and were only too painfully known to himself. He either led or ...”

“... premises in Stratford during or soon after the town’s first great Shakespearean festival, David Garrick’s Jubilee of 1769; it may even have adorned the Birthplace itself, part of which was still in business as the Swan and Maidenhead Inn. Garrick himself preferred to think of the infant Shakespeare being taught by Nature rather than Fancy: but the ...”

“... a woman’s body (unmindful, perhaps, of the evolutionary energy behind this emotion), is widely held to have acquired descriptive details from two Princeton philosophers. Mallach, the physicist in Properties of Light, shares many ideas with David Bohm. Klapper, who thinks ‘Goethe … settled for being a genius’ and ...”

“... explanation of the gunfire and cancelled the visit. The departing American commander, General David Petraeus, keeps saying that the fall in violence and the extension of government control in Iraq is ‘fragile and reversible’. His caution is based on experience. In 2004 Petraeus, then commander of the 101st Airborne Division, appeared to have pacified ...”

“... for introducing the Viennese public to the music of Handel and J.S. Bach, and for a time held salons every Sunday (which Mozart attended) dedicated to the performance of Bach’s works, because he was fascinated by counterpoint. Liebhaber took a more ‘recreational’ view: they might get together to play a piano trio, or enjoy hearing a cassation ...”

“... self appears in ‘Farewell Performance’, where he describes scattering the ashes of his friend David Kalstone: Now, in the furnace parched to ten or twelve light handfuls, a mortal gravel sifted through fingers, coarse yet greyly glimmering sublimate of palace days, Strauss, Sidney, the lover’s plaintive ‘Can’t we be just be friends?’ which your ...”

“... opinions married to a successful businessman. (Florence’s mother has been a friend of Elizabeth David and is a friend of Iris Murdoch.) Both stories are set at a very precise date, with debates about socialism, Britain’s decline as a world power, and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. Both works exude a sense, alive in McEwan’s work since The Child ...”

“... Scottish king on what became English soil’. Feudal dynasties such as the Bruces and the Balliols held estates on both sides of the porous border. In the late 11th century, the Normans appropriated Hadrian’s Wall as a convenient borderline, turning Roman forts into Norman castles at Carlisle and Newcastle. Although by 1230 the eastern border had been pushed ...”

“... such as Donoso might be said to meet is Santiago’s National Stadium. Nearly 20,000 people were held there in the eight weeks after the coup; 41 of them were killed. It is one of the locations most strongly associated with the events of 1973. But in The Twilight Zone it’s something else as well: the site of some of the happiest moments of the narrator’s ...”

“... The third anniversary of independence was celebrated at the new stadium; a beauty contest was held, with contestants described in their full range of skin colours, a sure sign that Jamaica’s ‘pigmentocracy’ was alive and well. The ‘not quite white’ Browns gathered on their verandas to drink rum punch, served by their Black servants (soon to be ...”

“... might have been said in the Commission’s report was ever going to reconcile these two sincerely held, internally coherent, and mutually irreconcilable viewpoints. But we could have said something more than we did about the principles of the burden and standard of proof, if only to make clear our commitment to upholding the distinction between how judges are ...”

“... released in 1985 in exchange for some captured Israeli soldiers.The founding meeting of Hamas was held at Yassin’s home in Gaza in 1987, at the start of the first intifada. In attendance were professors, doctors, engineers and would-be revolutionaries who nursed memories of 1936 and the wounds of 1967. Rather than the elusive political settlement with ...”

“... and the shooting. As we drove back to the Russian base that afternoon, Sergeant Major Glenn Snazle held the steering-wheel with one hand and a clearly visible pistol in the other. I don’t know how you conduct a hearts and minds campaign when you’re shooting people who come too close. 2 July. I’d been to most 8 a.m. intelligence briefings and repeatedly ...”

“... across their ancient homeland. Hämäläinen relates the account given to the English explorer David Thompson by one of the Blackfeet Indians, Saahkómaapi. In around 1730, the Blackfeet heard that there were horses in Snake Indian country and that not far away was the body of a horse that had been killed by an arrow. They found the dead horse and gathered ...”

“... of a generalised identity-statement. It then emerges, however, that Sluga believes Frege to have held the two sides of Axiom V to coincide in sense, which would indeed make it, not merely true, but self-evident, as an axiom ought to be. If this were so, it would be one of the identity-statements which can be explained without appeal to the sense/reference ...”