“... atmosphere of revenge prevailed.’ The British officers in question, and Macmillan himself, may have guessed that much or known it; they could not possibly have measured its ferocity. To see further into all this, one has surely to know something of the record of these soldiers in German service. This is where the book by Samuel Newland might have ...”

“... and digressions that make up the lives of individuals and the city. He suggests that a reader may cry ‘Come to the point,’ but there is no point, no story. ‘The “real” story, with its beginning, middle and conclusion, would never be told because it does not exist.’ The ‘story’ here offers nothing more than Sandeep’s return eighteen ...”

“... Knight Grand Cross in the Civil Division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. May we look forward to a husky, non-bodice-ripping sequel, with the foam-capped Atlantic tossing fitfully between two sundered ...”

“... The flash floods in Louisiana have nothing to do with us. It’s true, the day after tomorrow we may also have torrential rain, hail, sandstorms and typhoons, but we’re not going to talk about that now: the point is the weather’s going to be quite stupendous tomorrow and I suggest you get out there and enjoy the fine sight of the autumn leaves.’ It was ...”

“... language has by now the look of rusting aluminium. Most of the poetry may be null, but the Ginsberg Story, well and lucidly told here by an admirer, is absorbingly interesting. Ginsberg was born in 1926, the grandson of Russian Jews who were firmly settled in the United States when his father Louis and his mother Naomi were ...”

“... arrested, the number executed was between four and ten thousand. Some of the contradictions may arise from the fact that most of this book consists of articles which he published in Der Spiegel during the four years he was in China. Certainly little effort seems to have been made to reconcile pieces written at different dates. Terzani deals well with ...”

“... Mum, merrily and sexily, with a hairbrush. Hence the dustpan brush. However implausible we may find this amateur psychoanalysis, we cannot dismiss the story airily, for it seems to refer embarrassingly to a real-life case-history. Ruth is said to have painted a good picture, hung at the Royal Academy, depicting ‘two moth-eaten 18th-century dolls ...”

“... at home in the country but to work in the office, the bank, the shop and the university, women who may have neither husbands nor children nor country houses, who come back at night to rented urban flats where they can catch up on their paperwork amid Laura Ashley curtains and cushions. The note she sounded apparently strikes more deeply than the surface ...”

“... indomitable. He wrote to the Trowbridge Female Radical Association (an organisation which I fear may not exist today): ‘ ’Tis true indeed that the jail beds in Salisbury are not made of roses; but whether for weal or woe, for victory or death, my mind is made up: come what will and when it will, it is my determination to live and die in the people’s ...”

“... has himself made a film about Hitler. ‘What was evil a few years ago and now seems undangerous may be evil again in another few ...”

“... sensitive to these changes told Prime Minister Holt that Perkins was ‘not a bad man, but may get into bad hands’. Early in 1969, Perkins accepted an invitation to join the Commonwealth’s new policy unit, the Office of Aboriginal Affairs. In the OAA, Perkins’s mentors sought to make him less emotional. Perkins recalls that his memos were ...”

“... by the socialist parties, represented the mainstream of the labour movement from the 1890s. Brower may be right about the strikes (the statistics aren’t good enough to prove it either way), but I wonder whether his approach to the problem of labour violence isn’t merely a reworking of the old buntarstvo stereotype – the notion of ‘dark’ and ...”

“... in France from 200,000 to over two million men. The offensives on the Somme and at Passchendaele may have been mismanaged and unduly prolonged, but Haig never lost the confidence of his subordinate commanders, and in spite of all efforts Lloyd George could find no one to replace him. In the crisis of March 1918 he kept his nerve, and selflessly subordinated ...”

“... and tried hard to establish an effective working relationship with them. During the crisis of May and June 1940 he is depicted as uncertain, envisaging a variety of possibilities, including that of taking the French fleet out of the reach of the Germans. The suggestion that he changed his attitude when he was offered a ministerial post by Pétain rests on ...”

“... somehow more germane to Scottish and American literature than to other traditions. Be that as it may, she never mentions Romanticism, nor the Gothic as a Romantic genre. Nor, except in cases too blatant to ignore, does she undertake comparisons with literatures other than Scottish and American, or even with genres other than fiction, to justify such an ...”