“... it: in ‘Sketches for a Self-Portrait’ (from Poems: 1943-47) he describes himself as a ‘Green boy’, interrogated by the refrain, ‘Green boy, green boy,/What did the lawn teach, what did Rip Van Winkle/Forest say, and the mellow South-West town?’ He was a poet who was happy ...”

“... be unemployed, because working families too were receiving welfare.’ Though some liberals, like Daniel Patrick Moynihan, derided such sweeping assertions, Murray’s thesis appealed both to common sense and to prejudice. It justified cuts in welfare spending and reductions in taxes and in state intervention. It also presented a pragmatic, morally neutral ...”

“... Eliot, the representation of Zionism can hardly be overlooked, though Cheyette’s analysis of Daniel Deronda barely mentions the term. Deronda himself, as Cheyette points out, stands both for the Jewish desire for a national homeland and for the ‘unity of mankind’. Among subsequent English writers, only the arch-imperialist Buchan was able to take ...”

“... her curtain, or Isabel Archer reading in that little Albany office with its windows covered in green paper, or Ursula Brangwen reading Tennyson in her room at Cossethay. The story of women reading can’t be told as if it only connected women in a sociological and political progress across the centuries. Women readers have also led the journey inwards, to ...”

“... In 1933, Hourani went up to Oxford, to read PPE: ‘a very thin young man with luminous green eyes and a diaphanous complexion’, according to his friend Charles Issawi. After graduating, he worked for Chatham House and the Foreign Office, before becoming a fellow of Magdalen and subsequently director of the Middle East Centre at St ...”

“... up under Peel in 1842. This was one important suggestion to Charles Dickens for his portrait of Daniel Doyce, inventor-victim of the Circumlocution Office in Little Dorrit. The other was Babbage’s readiness, in both senses, with his hands, which yielded the Doyce thumb: ‘a certain free use of the thumb that is never seen but in a hand accustomed to ...”

“... of The Large Glass for the Tate show; he also collaborated on a ‘typotranslation’ of the ‘Green Box’ of notes which Duchamp made while at work on the piece. Duchamp signed the Hamilton reconstruction ‘Pour copie conforme’ (certified genuine copy), continuing the complication of the opposition between original and copy begun with the readymades ...”

“... she was 16, she was long accustomed to managing and protecting those around her. Like William, Daniel Gibbens was a graduate of Harvard Medical School; and as a young child in Weymouth, Massachusetts, Alice had accompanied her father on his rounds – a routine she apparently loved, and which made for an early intimacy with sickness and death. Both ...”

“... has suggested that we look at the brain and ask how we would make an instrument like that. So has Daniel Dennett. But for Rose, the question is simply historical: observe as best we can, with a bit of imagination, how simple, slightly brainy creatures evolved into increasingly complex systems. Not just humans, and not just mammals: observe how different ...”

“... the light), and his features approximated from dirty pinks in mould-like patches on grey-green. Or consider Rue Notre Dame des Champs, a night-time street scene (unusual among Sickert’s paintings in being Parisian). The ground colour is a light purple. The architecture has been sketched in – a barber’s shop bulges in the foreground, its shape ...”

“... two discrete English gardens: buttercups and daisies, sunsets and psalms, moors and briars.Another Green World (1975) is my favourite Eno LP. (Prince loved it too, apparently.) Gently experimental and warmly formal, it is full of things which later evaporate from Eno’s work: joy, humour, sex. Tracks like ‘Everything Merges with the Night’, ‘I’ll Come ...”

“... and electorates in wealthy countries trying to reconcile the irreconcilable goals of cheap green energy, free trade and secure, well-paid green energy jobs for their own workers. There’s something more unsettling involved too: an inspiring, utopian, internationalist movement to save humanity from climate emergency ...”

“... words of Miss La Creevy in his novel. In 1839 he was able to admire his own glamorous portrait by Daniel Maclise, which was engraved for use as the frontispiece of Nicholas Nickleby when it appeared as a book in October that year. But there is no evidence that Dickens ever turned left on entering the portico and strolled around the National Gallery. He would ...”

“... readers who did not want it to end. Soldier of Fortune was founded by Robert K. Brown, a former Green Beret based in Boulder, Colorado, who made the profitable discovery that his publication could double as an employment agency for mercenaries and a weaponry catalogue. The magazine’s classified ads offered an eclectic menu of ‘professional ...”

“... every anonymous work sends us off in search of an author. Finding out who wrote Sir Gawain and the Green Knight might deepen our understanding of the poem, but it might prove no more enlightening than finding out who bolted down the final rivet on the Forth Bridge. There are literary works in which what speaks is less a personal voice than a set of ...”