“... juice had been known for its medicinal properties since antiquity. Alexander the Great’s army may have introduced Anatolian opium into Iran, a history implicit in the linguistic connections between Greek opion, Persian afyun and Indian afeem. Mercantile networks across Asia carried it to China, where it was known as yāpiàn. By the 16th century, the ...”

“... have shown that, at least when assessing the potential toxicity of new drugs in humans, rats may be worse than useless. One analysis found that ‘results from tests on animals (specifically rat, mouse and rabbit models) are highly inconsistent predictors of toxic responses … little better than what would result merely by chance – or tossing a ...”

“... it on the charts’. A wall of weird masculinity supplements behind him and a carnivore dog.You may want to lay off the coffee, we told him gently, when he described how his hands shook when he was trying to install the guitar pickup. On the mornings I have metalsmithing class, I drink green tea, I said. That’s a very good suggestion, Bit, he said ...”

“... rights advocate, argued that Americans ‘face the world, it seems, with fear of the ideas that may invade from abroad’. In 1972 the Supreme Court heard the case of Kleindienst v. Mandel, which concerned the refusal of a visa to the Belgian economist Ernst Mandel, a Marxist who had been invited to speak at various events in the US. American academics ...”

“... name was Fillide Melandroni, and she did once try to slash the face of a rival – the paintings may have been staged, but it wasn’t all pretend). Annibale Carracci took a look at Fillide as Judith Beheading Holofernes and didn’t think much of it: ‘I don’t know what to say except that it is too natural.’ Perhaps he was troubled by Fillide’s ...”

“... Jews are excluded from public office in April; trade unions are banned and books are burned in May. Step by step, Germany is transformed. Carson spares her readers no detail of the disaster as it evolves. But her impulse to account for the Klugers’ commitment to the Nazis does not waver. Helmy isn’t a monster, though his actions have monstrous ...”

“... unhelpful neologisms such as ‘Antipostfascism’. The optimism with which she ends her account may also be misplaced. The far-right Alternative für Deutschland, now the second largest party in the Bundestag after doubling its seats at this year’s election, is attempting to revive the stigmatisation of the disabled, on the basis of the populist fantasy ...”

“... celebrated the Restoration in 1660 with more enthusiasm than Sherborne in Dorset. It was late May, and crowds piled into the tight streets of the ancient castle town. Wine flowed and hogsheads of beer and baskets of white bread were put out for the poor. Some five thousand troops gathered, on horse and foot, as Sir John Strangways, a local ...”

“... relatives and acquaintances alike. A victim who knows her assailant and who volunteers for testing may well hold the key to catching a serial offender.When this scandal hit the headlines, Goddard was no longer working as a victim advocate. From the late 1980s, she had become increasingly reclusive, then disappeared altogether. Much of Kennedy’s narrative ...”

“... admonished. ‘You are only commanded one small thing! That you should die so that the Führer may live a little longer!’ The more​ famous Surrealists, such as Breton and Ernst, left for the US and Mexico, which, again, had significant ramifications for young writers and artists in the Americas. However, when the Surrealists returned to a ravaged ...”

“... husband, so the story goes (this kind of disclaimer recurs throughout books about ghosts: hearsay may not be a defence in libel law, but it is in the telling of ghost stories), a psychic warned Sarah that if she were ever to finish the building, the ghosts of all the people her family’s rifles had killed would return to torment her. Baines points out that ...”

“... gracious and measured, and why he isn’t that in other settings I don’t know.’ Then again, he may have been played. In the New York Times, Larry David responded to Maher’s account of his cheery time visiting the commander-in-chief with an alternative version: ‘My Dinner with Adolf.’ ‘It wasn’t just a one-way street, with the Führer dominating ...”

“... along in the mythical underbelly of America … there where it is soft and prickly, where you may rub your nose against the grainy sands of illusion and come up bleeding,’ she writes. ‘Idealism came back in style. People got along for a while’: this is the refrain she weaves throughout the story. ‘Inside the melting pot. Inside the melting ...”

“... He sees himself as Castro’s paraclete, whereas he is only the devil’s advocate. Be that as it may, Cuba under Batista proved perhaps not too congenial but it certainly was more fruitful to him than under Castro. He hasn’t yet written Our Man in Havana (Part Two) and he had censorship problems when shooting the movie in Havana early in 1959. I arranged ...”

“... when we arrived. ‘Here,’ he said and tore out a paragraph from an inside page. ‘This may interest you.’ A man accused of child murders, held on remand, had written to the governor of the state of Bahia and to the President of Brazil demanding a trial to prove his innocence. ‘But this happened years ago,’ I said. ‘What’s so special about ...”