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“... This was the era of Pevsner, Namier, E.H. Carr, D.W. Brogan, A.J.P. Taylor, Anthony Blunt and Noel Annan, all regular reviewers for the TLS (though the old, cosy TLS reappeared in 1946 when Russell’s History of Western Philosophy was sent to J.B. Hawkins, the vicar of Esher). May notes two milestones in the paper’s steady modernising: a review by Rose ...”

“... war, and like all wars it needs a political settlement. Late in the night of 16 November Kofi Annan chaired a meeting at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa at which he, the AU and the UN Security Council reaffirmed this basic fact. When he promised to bring the government of Sudan and the rebels who are still fighting around the table within ...”

“... may be other contenders – but who’s tabulating?) At her memorial service Noel Annan told the story – it’s repeated here – of how ‘at a dance she heard O’Neill ask his partner to sit out on the stairs. “I don’t want to do that,” objected the girl, “I’ll ruin my dress.” “I don’t mind ruining my dress,” said Ann ...”

“... less professional status than they can remember having. In the ‘golden age’, as Noel Annan called it, of the Fifties and Sixties, academic salaries were around two and a half times the national average wage. By 1989 the ratio had shrunk to one and a half. The academic salary range (for all but medical faculty) runs from £13,000 to around ...”

“... The effect, after all, was there, and so were the real and difficult conditions of practice. When Annan found that editors and reporters were ‘bewildered’ by the findings of Bad News, it should not have been the end of the matter. The point is to investigate the social conditions of such bewilderment. It is just because of the immediate pressures, the ...”

“... Young thought the latter was a form of ‘queer-bashing’. The much reproduced photograph by Annan – ‘loose collar and a tie gathered in a big, mock-careless bow, like W.B. Yeats’ – says it all. He also had airs, and it cannot have helped when he and his half-English middle-class wife moved to that introverted, artistic house in the West ...”

“... a group of Loretto boys called the Palship: they liked to mess about in boats, along the Tweed and Annan, camping like Boy Scouts, making their base at a fine country house in Dumfries, called Craigielands, the family home of two of their number, the Smith brothers. Adam Forman married their sister, Flora Smith, and Denis was born and bred at Craigielands. Son ...”

“... and that Vincent Massey ‘could stroke even a cliché until it purred like an epigram’. Lord Annan notes that E.M. Forster’s works ‘were full of aphorisms’, something on which he is rather an authority himself. Sir John Hicks sums up the issues between Keynes and Robertson with magisterial fairness and clarity. And Kenneth Rose reveals that Sir ...”

“... concealed dislike’ for him. A strange attitude to the case still prevails. Lords Grimond and Annan expressed their amazement that the BBC could contemplate making a documentary on the affair. If there has been an injustice, said Grimond, it should first be taken to the appropriate authorities: i.e. the Home Office. ‘Does not this conduct,’ said Lord ...”

“... improvement in living standards, there was no fundamental change: the UN Secretary General Kofi Annan reported in November 1997 that despite the programme, 31 per cent of children under five still suffered from malnutrition, supplies of safe water and medicine were ‘grossly inadequate’ and the health infrastructure suffered from ‘exceptionally serious ...”

“... and as potential cheerleaders rather than for any more serious purpose. An impending visit by Kofi Annan will surely also end in failure. And there is little sign that the British, Americans or EU have sufficient leverage to force either party to initiate discussions. This is an intra-elite struggle centred on the personal pursuit of power in which almost any ...”

“... of dummies: Berlin, Betjeman, Kenneth Clark, John Sparrow, as well as, a little later, Noel Annan and Stuart Hampshire – all capable of the odd spot of talking themselves. But they acknowledged Bowra as their master, which was fortunate since no other terms were on offer. With the young, Bowra’s preferred pedagogical resource was the dinner ...”

“... dislike still more the alternative ways in which violence impinges on young people today. The Annan Committee was told in 1977 that in an average day’s viewing an American child sees 25 to 27 violent incidents, about four million times more than he is likely to come across, even there, during a normal day. The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme (fully ...”

“... the most influential elaboration of the allegedly distinctive kinship pattern was Noel Annan’s 1955 essay ‘The Intellectual Aristocracy’. Annan itemised the numerous family links among successive generations of Arnolds, Butlers, Darwins, Keyneses, Trevelyans, Wedgwoods and so on, suggesting that they came ...”

“... asking for permission to raid the caches. The Department of Peacekeeping, headed by Kofi Annan, instructed the General to report to the President of Rwanda and ask him to act on it. Dallaire dutifully carried out this idiotic order. The Government could rest assured that its secrets remained in safe hands. Dallaire’s highly-placed source fell ...”