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“... it comes to the man: ‘I tried to think of Wieder. I tried to imagine him alone in his flat, an anonymous dwelling, as I pictured it, on the fourth floor of an empty eight-floor building, watching television or sitting in an armchair, drinking, as Romero’s shadow glided steadily towards him. I tried to imagine Carlos Wieder, but I couldn’t.’ The ...”

“... camps, as did her parents. The Bruders were ‘the sort of people who leave few traces. Virtually anonymous. Inseparable from those Paris streets, those suburban landscapes where, by chance, I discovered that they had lived … And such topographical precision contrasts with what we shall never know about their life – this blank, this mute block of the ...”

“... is to say why Gulliver’s Travels features on English Literature syllabuses and, say, the anonymous 1766 moral and political treatise The New Economy of Human Life (‘Part I. Of the Imperfections and Folly of Man Considered as a Relative and Social Being’) usually doesn’t. What distinguishes 18th-century satire in general and Swift’s satire in ...”

“... as deer. ‘Of all the chases, the hare makes the greatest pastime and pleasure,’ wrote the anonymous 18th-century author of The Huntsman. According to Gaston Phoebus’s 14th-century Livre de chasse, the hare is ‘king of all venery’. Turner drew and painted several hare chases apart from Rain, Steam and Speed. In one of them, a hare runs over the ...”

“... by the former British MI6 intelligence agent Christopher Steele, based on hearsay purchased from anonymous Russian sources. Amid prostitutes and golden showers, a story emerged: the Russian government had been blackmailing and bribing Donald Trump for years, on the assumption that he would become president some day and serve the Kremlin’s interests. In ...”

“... suspect reasons – including, perhaps, some of the men driven to vent their despair on anonymous forums – but the moment their unhappiness is transmuted into a rage at the women ‘denying’ them sex, rather than at the systems that shape desire (their own and others’), they have crossed a line into something morally ugly and confused. In her ...”

“... Navy lieutenants John Rochfort and John Greaves. Waldstreicher attributes to her a very different anonymous poem, ‘Thoughts on Tyranny’, which considers British history up to the time of Charles I. Like most Bostonians, Wheatley was displaced by the War of Independence, leaving the city to stay with friends in Providence. She addressed a tribute to George ...”

“... describes him as ‘award-winning writer on The Wire’ – and might have difficulty remaining anonymous while gathering material, but there’s no lack of precedent for that. Truman Capote, strange and fluting, nevertheless persuaded dazed Midwesterners to talk, and Wolfe himself was hardly inconspicuous, languidly prowling Manhattan in his pale suit. In ...”

“... creaking, rustling, buzzing, crackling, scraping’. The city itself, fast-moving, unpredictable, anonymous, was a crucible of futurity. A piece Mondrian wrote describing the sounds of Paris in 1920 (reportedly, it gave the editor of De Nieuwe Amsterdammer ‘bad dreams’) reads like Joyce, if Joyce had been mashed into one of Russolo’s noise ...”

“... every one of its staff and pupils deserve? The Trojan Horse​ scandal began late in 2013 when an anonymous letter was sent to the leader of Birmingham City Council and he passed it on to the police and the DfE. Four pages were attached to the letter, purporting to be instructions sent to a ‘brother’ in Bradford on how to infiltrate the governing bodies ...”

“... she will admit. ‘I sell them but so far as the authorship is concerned, I’ll say they are anonymous and that’s as far as I’m prepared to go.’ She generally chalks the gist of the current pamphlet on the pavement, though with no attempt at artistry. ‘St Francis FLUNG money from him’ is today’s message and prospective customers have to step ...”

“... freedom, ushering in a decade or more of eye-popping display for gay and straight alike. As an anonymous queer man explained to the Evening Standard in 1964, ‘fifteen years ago, almost anyone wearing tight trousers … was probably gay. But now the normals have taken over our kind of dressing and you simply can’t tell from clothes any more.’The cases ...”

“... reform. ‘We know the countdown to something very bad has begun,’ one of many necessarily anonymous insiders to whom I spoke told me, ‘but not the timing. Rather than face down minority fundamentalists by opening up the political system, the Government uses them as bogeymen to control the vast majority who hate and fear them. President Sadat tried ...”

“... cellular and call me back on a secure line when you get to your house!’ The idea was for a free anonymous web-based e-mail service. In other words, a service that would allow e-mails to be stored and sent over the World Wide Web rather than via a specific Internet access provider, so that customers would be able to send and receive e-mails in complete ...”

“... of humane studies. Even in the tour de force of stylistic analysis by which he claims the anonymous Fiore as the work of Dante, he is manifestly dealing with his chosen writer as a living human being: he once jokingly called himself a structuralist before structuralism, but it was a joke he could afford to make, since it never would have occurred to ...”