“... redoing his signature image (one understands why Tree Man came to be thought of from early on as a self-portrait), take steps to scramble any face-to-face reciprocity. We’re lost in the maze of waterways, the tide’s coming in, and Tree Man’s not offering to be our guide. Maybe the deer on the shore has caught his eye. But he seems, as much as ...”

“... used tactics that would become familiar in the 1960s: sit-ins, boycotts, litigation, even armed self-defence. And in 1948, President Truman, employing his constitutional power as the military’s commander-in-chief to make an end run around Congress, ordered the armed forces to embrace ‘equality of treatment and opportunity’ regardless of race, religion ...”

“... they tend to adopt, or the way relationships within their entourages tend to mimic, with delicious self-consciousness, patterns of favouritism and intrigue developed long ago at the court of Versailles. No Western head of state in recent memory (British monarchs included) has had a more regal touch than François Mitterrand, alleged socialist. Nothing is more ...”

“... promised features involve subtracting ordinary humans from the social equation. Robot maids and self-flying taxis won’t organise a union, and hologram faculty won’t give children any revolutionary ideas. The brave new world of labour discipline is already here, and management consultants’ cost-cutting measures and new techniques for the evasion of ...”

“... sign as she cycled among ancient Greek, ancient Egyptian and modern masks, a hieratic spondee of self-evident presence.Many of her poems are incantations and permutations of names: vatic declarations, mythical unspoolings or metamorphic patternings under the sign of the eponym (‘Hermes of the Ways’, ‘Oread’). Other poems conjure up entire mythic ...”

“... arriving at a time when it has been rejuvenated by the war in Ukraine, has prompted a carnival of self-congratulation. In July, the leaders of all member nations, from Biden to Orbán to Zelensky, turned up in Washington for Nato’s birthday summit, including Starmer in his first week on the job and Macron days after losing his governing authority. The ...”

“... the armistice. All there was to that was a brief meeting between Professor Louis Rougier (a ‘self-important and meddling provincial academic’) and Churchill, who had vainly hoped that a French visitor might have some inside news about the Montoire encounter.Two other feeble arrows in the defence quiver were the ‘secret telegrams’ Pétain had sent ...”

“... wrote of the encounter. ‘The pleasantness of his face freed me of all thought of my personal self. I felt like a child in the presence of one with great wisdom and much love, and I became very humble within myself … from him was radiating a feeling of infinite understanding and kindness, with supreme humility.’Huge if true. By way of ...”

“... is the child’s public house … [It] serves as an excellent training in those habits of heedless self-indulgence which are the root of half the misery of the slums.’The essays in this new volume have different views on Booth and his survey. Morgan and Anne Power, both of the LSE, salute him as the founding father of social science, the progenitor of ...”

“... nothing is more inapt to a political campaign than the unending reflexivity, critique and self-correction required of scholarly inquiry.Twitter has been disastrous in this regard, hurling the authors of critical academic discourses into the same arena as op-ed writers, politicians and members of the general public, without any mediators or translators ...”

“... verse that spanned Scots, English, Gaelic and Latin, Muir wrote in ‘Scotland 1941’, a poem of self-lacerating denunciation, that Burns and Scott were ‘sham bards of a sham nation’ where extreme Protestantism had led to ‘No pride but pride of pelf’ (the archaic noun ‘pelf’ is an example of the antiquarian diction and cadences that dog even his ...”

“... friends included Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Henry Moore and Christopher Wood. He never met the self-taught Cornish painter Alfred Wallis but supported him and bought his work. It was at the Edes’ dinner table that Moore and Barbara Hepworth had their famous argument about which of them was the first to put a hole in a sculpture. While the Tate resolutely ...”

“... terms, for ‘an active prefiguration of new communities and formations capable of egalitarian self-governance’. ‘The threshold of a post-capitalist world is not far off, a few decades at most,’ Crary concludes, but this note of hope is quickly dashed: without prefiguration ‘post-capitalism will be a new field of barbarism.’ Based on the present ...”

“... as it was to imagine herself worthy of more. In Second-Class Citizen (1974), one of her early ‘self-documentary novels’, she traced the change. Adah, an authorial stand-in, has woken up in the maternity ward with a rubber tube running into her nose, and her baby being cared for in the hospital nursery. While spending several days in recovery, she becomes ...”

“... were ‘suffering high levels of inactivity’. He promised schemes to ‘give them the self-esteem and confidence they need to hold down a job’. Those who did not step up would be punished with the loss of their benefits: ‘It is not unreasonable to require people to take up that opportunity.’Re-elected once more in 2005, Labour proposed ...”