“... to the play of gender differences, doesn’t mention them here, especially given the dreadful power of the heavily racialised and genderised image of the ‘welfare mother’). It’s not that goodwill and political change are unwelcome, only that they are insufficient. We need to learn the ‘practices of respect’. In insisting that feelings of ...”

“... spoken in a worried, uneasy tone, or with a disgusted shrug. This is no admiring boast of the power of modern technology.’ For Kirsty Douglas, the signs of water are everywhere evident to the observer who walks, drives or flies across the semi-arid landscapes of south-eastern Australia. From the dry channels and huge fossil meander belts of the ...”

“... trips.Early in his career, Gott stood in the 1966 Hull North by-election. On 7 November 1965, Henry Solomons, the Labour MP for the constituency, died after a short illness. He had won the marginal seat from the Tories at the 1964 general election with a majority of 1181 votes on a turnout of 47,717. His death reduced the parliamentary majority of Harold ...”

“... was famously ugly and would never allow himself to be drawn or painted, though that didn’t deter Henry Fielding from writing about him in his poem ‘The Masquerade’ (1728):        As Mulciber was driv’nHeadlong, for’s ugliness, from heav’n;So, for his ugliness more fell,Was H-d-g-r toss’d out of hell,And, in return, by Satan madeFirst ...”

“... with the announced target goal of 1992; the second is the advent of Japan as a leading economic power on the world scene, with the prospect that it must, over time, be increasingly recognised as a major player in the world’s political councils. An academic friend once told me that no speech or article on American foreign policy can have legitimacy unless ...”

“... a particular moment. Market conditions always reflect, among other things, imbalances of economic power; to give any particular historical price a normative status endorses those imbalances. Any attempt to go further and determine a ‘reasonable’ level of return for a particular activity is in effect either to pluck an arbitrary figure out of the air or to ...”

“... in Burma the civil war – Ceylon became Whitehall’s model for the transfer of colonial power. ‘There was no fight for that freedom which involved a fight for principles, policies and programmes,’ Solomon Ridgeway Bandaranaike, the anti-colonial head of state who took power in 1956, said when he reviewed the ...”

“... and embraced a morality tale of the sort Tuchman offered. It goes like this. In 1914, two opposing power blocs, each in the process of a massive and historically unprecedented military build-up, came to feel that it was more dangerous not to respond militarily to a relatively minor incident at the periphery of Europe than it was to do so. The precise nature of ...”

“... Shakespeare would have been delighted. This is not the only way to define a classic – by the power to hold and move two sensitive and intelligent if not particularly literate persons, 350 years after first publication. But it is one way: and, though that was certainly a more innocent phase of our culture, I was glad to see a warning in a recent Radio ...”

“... shared with William James to ‘that instinctive belief in the omnipotence of Man and the creative power of his beliefs which is perhaps natural in a young, growing and prosperous country, where men’s problems have been simpler than in Europe and usually soluble by energy alone’. In 1939 Russell said that it was ‘natural’ that Dewey’s ‘strongest ...”

“... I doubt that an artist of Picasso’s sort ever raises his or her account of humanity to a higher power simply by purging, or repressing, what had been dangerous or horrible in an earlier vision. There must be a way from monstrosity to tragedy. The one must be capable of being folded into the other, lending it aspects of the previous vision’s ...”

“... and stylised composure; and Whitman’s composure finds its equal among American writers only in Henry James. With majestic aloofness, he likes, as he says early in Song of Myself, to be ‘both in and out of the game and watching and wondering at it’. And like the games James plays in The Turn of the Screw, Whitman’s are intended to create mysteries, to ...”

“... Mary, Martha – very biblical, a detail not lost on Updike, on whom nothing was lost, as Henry James had enjoined. Complicating matters for Updike was the fact that Mary was also taking lovers while he, when not cleaving unto Martha like a shipwreck survivor, carried out his own extracurricular sorties, including with a pair of Australian ...”

“... mulatto and house-nigger (Ariel) rather than a field-nigger (Caliban).’ In ‘Talking Black’, Henry Louis Gates, searching for a black critical language with which to read black texts, describes the same problem from a different point of view. How can we write or read the text of ‘Blackness’? What language(s) do black people use to represent their ...”

“... Eventually, however, Berger appears to have become disenchanted with Communism as a form of state power. ‘Early Constructivist’ works, made in the first flush of Revolutionary enthusiasm, expressed ‘the hopes aroused by the new functional possibilities of science and engineering for an industrially backward country in a time of revolution’ – hopes ...”