“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... might have this as one’s aim. The best political framework in which these values can be defended may well be one of rights and justice. It certainly seems more promising than traditional forms of imposed community. Indeed, Fox-Genovese is uncomfortably aware of the fact that it is the much-belaboured Western tradition of rights which has produced and ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... into ridicule and contempt, and encourage students to report fellow students and teachers who may offend. The same tenderness towards oppressed minorities has led many universities to explicit or implicit racial quotas for student admissions and faculty appointments. Now, the liberals are deeply riven, and the conservatives are talking strange talk. Some ...”

“... of his willingness to break a corrupt labour ring. But if Mr Hammond is candid with himself, he may still concede that while the union lost nothing in practical terms, yet modern, solvent, professionally-run, member-responsive unionism requires as much to be sold as fought for, and that he will be remembered rather for combat than ...”

“... works, like the Anglo-Irish Agreement, have a dual identity at various crucial moments. Southey may appear to be a deservedly neglected figure who is not worth any extensive critical attention, but his sojourn in Ireland reveals some of the tensions that underlie that dual identity. Although Paulin’s exegetical gifts are prodigious, they cannot be ...”

“... 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 ...”

“... men such as he, ready to dare the untried and to venture boldly into new paths. Individuals may suffer from the cost of the experiments, but the nation, which is an aggregate of individuals, gains, and so does the world at large.’ Brunel’s fame eclipsed that of his father. His close friend Daniel Gooch, whose memoirs and diary only became generally ...”

“... and to explaining how much the pain of separation hurt Gilman herself. Her bouts of depression may have been an unconscious self-punishment for the urgent needs that forced her to make the break. Many of the contradictions in her ideas can be traced to her ‘uncuddled childhood’. Her father, a professional librarian and linguist, deserted the family ...”