“... than winning the National Book Award for a first book? With Saul Bellow, Leslie Fiedler, Irving Howe and Alfred Kazin in his corner – ‘four tigers’, as he describes them, of American Jewish literature – it might have been possible to ignore the fringe of pious malcontents, but appeasement has never gained ground in Roth’s personal style. In her ...”

“... couplet (developed in lectures, and perhaps first employed in print in praise of Geoffrey Howe in 1967) and had typically acknowledged it. The courtesy was not returned. Obituarists have stressed Oakeshott’s charm of character, but his virtues did not include conspicuous generosity in intellectual matters. Withal, however, his construction was ...”