“... sleeping it off under the highway with the other ‘urban Indians’ who can’t make their way home. But though their landscape is bleak, these first two books share a kind of warmhearted, comic brutality. ‘Your father was always half crazy,’ Victor’s mother tells him. ‘And the other half was on medication.’ Reservation Blues opens with the ...”

“... her only previous public utterance on the subject was an observation that ‘charity begins at home.’ But then she is only the latest head of the department – there have been five in the last four years – whose commitment to international development has been, to say the least, suspect. Of the most recent only Rory ...”

“... for whom she wrote five movies. Viertel was then the highest paid screenwriter at MGM and her home was a magnet for European refugees and American artists who gathered at her Sunday afternoon salon. Thomas Mann, Aldous Huxley, W.H. Auden, Sergei Eisenstein, Hanns Eisler, Arnold Schoenberg, Lionel Feuchtwanger, Franz Werfel and Bertolt Brecht rubbed ...”

“... Griffith in the performance of his life) could be shown as creators and manipulators of a home-grown political evil. The early pages of An Army of Phantoms take us back to a different era and almost a different country. During the last two years of the Second World War, Americans knew they were good, and the enemy was obvious: Hitler and ...”

“... as James Joyce put it – and marginality is much in vogue at the moment. Yet it is also home to a magnificent body of literature, much of it written with wonderful convenience in the world’s premier language, and so easily accessible from Tokyo to Bogotá. Being colonised by the British has its advantages. Postcolonialism is also much in fashion ...”

“... other friends of Hitler came and went . . . He enjoyed the family and artistic atmosphere at home with the Wagners, playing the kind uncle to the Wagner children, and fancied himself a friend of the arts. Almost every sentence jars. Hamann credits this semi-educated dictator with being a connoisseur; intimates he was ‘wrongly’ imprisoned; and ...”

“... may have had a glittery patina, but under their vinyl skin lay danker things. ‘In Every Dream Home a Heartache’ was like J.G. Ballard delivering sermons from a porny neon pulpit. ‘The Bogus Man’ and ‘For Your Pleasure’ seem haunted by some unnameable grief or dread. There are several Roxy Music songs I can still recite from beginning to ...”

“... Fatma Hassona, who had just turned 25, was murdered with ten members of her family at their home in Gaza. A day before, ACID (L’Association du cinéma indépendant pour sa diffusion) – the third and smallest section at Cannes, programmed by a committee of filmmakers – had announced its selection. It included Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, a ...”

“... also exculpated the Government of Northern Ireland and the RUC by arguing that the Minister of Home Affairs (Brian Faulkner) ‘had no idea’ that the techniques were illegal. The fact that someone of Gardiner’s legal eminence should employ such an obviously invalid argument demonstrates ‘the extent to which Northern Ireland was clouding British ...”

“... pet. ‘I began to throw up as soon as the first letter appeared on the blackboard. I was sent home and cleaned; papa issued a solemn warning: “Don’t repeat this performance or you’ll get it!” Again I was in school, sitting in my place, trying to stay calm; again the teacher went to the blackboard, wrote a few letters, and again I threw ...”

“... evokes the smell of his father’s postman’s bag, his voice, the cigarettes, his coming home after all those rounds, those deliveries. It is no wonder that Carson is besotted with paper, envelopes, postcards, ink and the Conway Stewart fountain pen, one of my own early images of ...”

“... The new entrepreneur knows that many traps are set for the man of action. The maxim is the home truth with which he cuts through all the mystification and recalls his real priorities. If the maxim forms one of management thinking’s most characteristic textual strategies, the quotation is another. The pages of these books tend to be scattered with ...”

“... Devoted to classical music, he had nothing but scorn for popular songs; when he still lived at home, he and Alma fought over the radio. He particularly hated ‘Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries’, and Alma, in especially perverse moods, would get her daughter to perform it for him. It’s a grim picture. I came to Doris Day backwards, or maybe it was ...”

“... in the breeding of animals, and perhaps anticipates his respect for the writings of Houston Stewart Chamberlain.’ H.S. Chamberlain is best-known for his racial theories, praising Germans and dispraising Jews. However, he also wrote (in German) about Kant, Goethe and Wagner. Bertie was interested in Chamberlain’s work and translated two of his books ...”

“... in space and distance and the sky.’ Not long after this visit, Shepherd departed to a nursing home further into Deeside. ‘It’ll be odd for me to have a new address,’ she told the writer Jessie Kesson, ‘for I’ve never lived anywhere but here. But if people will take on more than the allotted share of life, they shouldn’t take on more than the ...”