“... at the founding of his new socialist movement. ‘Pasok is a revolution,’ he claimed.No less self-serving was the committee that organised last year’s bicentennial anniversary celebrations, of which Mazower was a member. It oversaw the creation of an Artificial Intelligence Research Institute and featured collaborations with the US Embassy on how best ...”

“... failings were many and reinforcing,’ McMaster wrote. ‘Arrogance, weakness, lying in pursuit of self-interest, and above all, the abdication of responsibility to the American people.’ The circumstances are not equivalent: McMaster was writing 22 years after the fall of Saigon; Kabul has only just fallen. But the fact that McMaster could publish his book ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... back to life the vast meals, lively clubs and busy streets of mid-19th-century New York, had self-diagnosed his bad case of bibliomania in 1842 and when he built his house organised his extensive library with a care worthy of Elia himself. No wonder then that he bought nine of Lamb’s books, including all five that Coleridge had annotated; or that when ...”

“... ideas or policies. If they are Liberals or Conservatives, they are occasionally prone to fits of self-denigration and lament, in which they admit that the clase politica, like the clase dirigente, has failed, that the traditional parties are ideologically-barren disasters, that their multi-class composition is a fatal inhibition, that it would be better to ...”

“... Johnson’s account, the wilful refusal of optical amelioration was the prime cause of Swift’s self-isolation. ‘Having thus excluded conversation, and desisted from study, he had neither business nor amusement; for having by some ridiculous resolution or made vow, determined never to wear spectacles, he could make little use of books in his later ...”

“... It’s doubly shaming – shaming to remember as well, to feel so sorry for your scabby little self back there in small people’s purgatory. The only writer I know of who has done justice to the experience is a science fiction writer, Ray Bradbury. He has a 1953 story, ‘The Playground’, where a father makes a pact with the powers of evil in order to ...”

“... confession in modern poetry may have helped condition Birch’s sympathy for the high-minded self-indulgence, the dotty and at times distracted character of much of Ruskin’s later writings. Gillian Beer, in a scintillating, funny and touching contribution to The Sun is God, which concerns Darwin’s work on earthworms and Victorian anxieties about the ...”

“... tracks. In later life – civil servant that he was – he rarely if ever committed his private self to incriminating paper. One result is that we know absolutely nothing of his sexual life other than that he married. And his wife Rose is as elusive a personage as the Dark Lady of the Sonnets. Super is reduced to dredging up passages from Doctor Thorne and ...”

“... Elish (‘When on high’). Smith’s dedication to this austere branch of study (in which he was self-taught, being by profession an engraver) arose from a passionate interest in the historical books of the Old Testament, and the early advances of Assyriology undoubtedly owed much to its relevance to Biblical study. But scholarly attention soon spread to the ...”

“... attention. The additional stigma attached to Aids, and the dire prognosis, may also discourage self-referral on the part of the high-risk but symptom-free. The strenuous attempt by the medical establishment to get everyone worried, despite the low incidence in the old industrialised countries of HIV infection outside specific groups has become a target of ...”

“... a flirt, a charmer, a dandyess and a poseuse. If somebody has put this sort of effort into their self-projection, it’s kind of by the way to call them affected or inauthentic, for, unlike, say, Simone de Beauvoir, they have never pretended to be anything else. You just have to decide whether you are impressed by the effect or not, and go on your way ...”

“... die. Dolabella has no sooner gone than Cleopatra actually makes an attempt, on stage, to kill her self (‘Quick, quick, good hands!’) and is instantly disarmed by Proculeius; the Romans, we now learn, are watching like hawks. At V.ii. Cleopatra finally learns, unequivocally, from Dolabella what she has previously suspected, that she will be led in triumph ...”

“... Kazakhstan, they have carved out a geographical area for themselves where they practise effective self-government. In the Caucasus, the interwoven skein of little peoples continues to unravel in violence, with uncompromising claims for land and justice – but justice from whom? None of this will ‘solve itself’. Zhirinovsky is the malign child striking ...”