“... e Folclore, which funded much of Dina Dreyfus and Claude Lévi-Strauss’s early research. The self he had inhabited in 1927 embarrassed him, but the diary is both charming and exacting precisely because it is a record of his inhibitions and reticence, his lack of the multitudinous capacity he desired:Departure from São Paulo. I bought an enormous bamboo ...”

“... 1982.) Alexis is also a violinist, and his playing reaches new heights as he emerges from his self-imposed silence. Improvising on his instrument soon after his son is born, he begins ‘to comprehend that liberty both art and life have when they obey only the laws of their own development’. Yourcenar is saying that our lives can become our own with ...”

“... of the rapport between Blair and Clinton and the genuineness of Blair’s populism, penchant for self-made multimillionaires, and pleasure in throwing parties at Downing Street for pop stars. I ask a question, ‘Whatever happened to Labour’s commitment to the principle of progressive income tax?’ to which Ross replies that he doesn’t know ...”

“... local gun club, where his friends buy smuggled AR-15s through WhatsApp groups for what they call self-protection. She notes the specialised language of the WhatsApp groups offering merchandise:Bullets were called ‘frijoles’ (beans) or ‘chicharros’ (small mackerel). Guns were known as ‘juguetes’ (toys). A new gun was referred to as ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... dependent on her for the financing of his pleasures. His wife, Liliane, was intensely puritan and self-denying, the survivor of a childhood of stark poverty in the Auvergne. Life there was much as it had been in the Middle Ages, with people living off chestnuts, cabbage, potatoes and lard. She was almost comically at odds with her husband’s values – if ...”

“... that the octopus is, phenomenologically speaking, in a hybrid situation: its arms are partly self, and partly other. Because of this, the octopus is sometimes held up as a mascot for the ‘embodied cognition’ movement in psychology, according to which the physical body, by constraining and making possible certain actions, is itself ...”

“... sanctuary, with both of them fans of the naturalist R.M. Lockley. There were a few volumes of self-help in the house but the only non-library book of autobiography was I Haven’t Unpacked by William Holt, who had got away from the dark, satanic mills by buying a horse and riding through England. The Armley library was at the bottom of Wesley Road, the ...”

“... cultured intelligence of the Austrians (which he admitted was superior to his own) but saw them as self-satisfied and the opposite of revolutionary. In 1913, Stalin, who had been sent to Vienna by Lenin to research the issue, published Marxism and the National Question, which ‘represented the outright rejection of the Austro-Marxist concept of national ...”

“... postwar Britain in anything like the same volume, as the country underwent a push towards national self-sufficiency in food.The vast dock complex built when Liverpool was at the heart of imperial power and British trade networks was abandoned. The new industrial estates created by the postwar social-developmental state were struggling. Obsolescence was layered ...”

“... diary to Buckinghamshire, or they could lose the whole shebang.In Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self (2002), Claire Tomalin calls what followed a ‘tragi-comedy’. Her account, which has become the standard narrative of the diary’s transcription, has Neville hiring an impecunious undergraduate, John Smith, to produce a readable version of Pepys’s ...”

“... HTP engine to use as a template. The Stentor was built with military money to power the Blue Steel self-propelled bomb. Blue Steel was designed to be released from a Vulcan over the wheatfields of Byelorussia and to fly the last 200 miles of its journey on its own. Over the target, a little hatch opened on the Blue Steel and the warhead dropped out – for no ...”

“... In the words of one Earth First! figurehead, their derring-do actions were undertaken in the ‘self-defence of the wild’, an intriguing syllogism. There was no plan by Earth Firsters in the US to ‘overthrow any social, political or economic system’.Earth First! in Britain came to the conclusion that the Americans were a bunch of rednecks, obsessed by ...”

“... Isherwood, who was in the habit of thinking well of people, thought Klaus ‘without vanity or self-consciousness’; ‘his great charm,’ Isherwood said, ‘lay in this openness, this eager, unaffected approach.’ Others didn’t share his view. Glenway Wescott called Klaus a ‘tragic twerp’; Janet Flanner thought he was pathetically dominated by ...”

“... her Mattress Performance (Carry That Weight), a work of endurance art and political protest whose self-imposed ‘rules of engagement’ required her to carry a dormitory mattress everywhere she went on campus for nine months. ‘That image,’ Hillary Clinton said in her speech to the Democratic National Committee Women’s Leadership Forum in ...”