“... America’, a term they coined. They argued that, as Latins, the French resembled the former subjects of Iberian empires in being instinctive monarchists and Catholics, and so were best placed to lead them in resisting the aggression of Protestant, Anglo-Saxon and republican America. Unfortunately, the French and the Mexicans differed over the ...”

“... eyes. Truth is blinding.’ The invocations of high culture often smacked of the show-off star pupil. Rivette on Hawks: ‘The father of Red River and Only Angels Have Wings is none other than Corneille.’ This tendency persists today: in recent issues, Serge Bozon mentions Diderot’s Recherches philosophiques sur l’origine et la nature du beau in an ...”

“... between February and December 1915. It was largely the creation of Frank Baines, who had been a pupil of the Arts and Crafts architect C.R. Ashbee. He turned the wartime shortage of materials to his advantage, varying the construction and employing vernacular techniques such as tile-hanging and half-timbering. He gave historic details to houses that were ...”

“... second son of the marriage between the vicar of Berkeley, Gloucestershire, and the daughter of a former vicar of the same parish. Orphaned at the age of five, he attended grammar school and soon became apprentice to a local surgeon. At 21 he moved to London to continue his medical studies as anatomical assistant to John Hunter at St George’s ...”

“... Planeta’, as Philip was called), in the manner of Versailles a generation later. Velazquez was a pupil of Pacheco’s at Seville, and he was brought to the court of Philip IV as part of the ‘Seville connection’ associated with Olivares. A study of Velazquez at court was thus an obvious choice for Brown to make when he was invited to deliver the Slade ...”

“... aspect of Durrell’s ambiguous Grail consists – as befits a banned author of the Thirties and a former associate of Henry Miller – of ‘love-lore’ or the secrets of sex. These, which have something to do with ‘dual control’ in the love-act and simultaneous orgasm, are passed down from master or mistress to hand-picked ...”

“... and some became editors. In a phrase that would no doubt have set the head of Mr Turner’s former Head anodding, we learn of the society in which ‘the journalist rated somewhere between apothecary and cat-skinner.’ And the seediest of these parson-scribes found a natural home in the Grub Street of the day, an acre or two of foundling newspapers and ...”

“... and began to collaborate with the dancer-choreographers Rudolf Laban and Mary Wigman, who was a pupil of Dalcroze, the creator of eurhythmics. High in the Alps, on Monte Verita, Laban had taken over what we would now regard as a counter-cultural or New Age commune for his dance school, moving in permanently after the outbreak of war stranded him there in ...”

“... were quick to appear on the shelves. There was an official expedition historian, Callisthenes, a pupil of Aristotle, who was enough of a sycophant to claim the sea made obeisance to Alexander as he passed, but was not sycophantic enough to make the same gesture himself. He never finished his history, but was stoned to death – or placed under arrest until ...”

“... chercheur, c’est d’abord de se trouver un bon patron,’ he began his career in physics as the pupil of Germany’s greatest teacher, Arnold Sommerfeld.In the early Twenties, atomic physics was dominated by Niels Bohr’s model of electrons circling like planets around the sun-like nucleus, their concentric orbits governed by Newtonian mechanics combined ...”

“... of a red-brick terrace in north Leeds, she was transformed by the discussions held at her local Pupil Teachers’ Centre and began to haunt the Leeds Art Club’s conversazioni, where such topics as ‘Art and Democracy’ were debated. Nellie rechristened herself ‘Mary’, which must have sounded less plebeian, and became one of the chief organisers of ...”

“... Jones’s voluminous and unsorted correspondence. The psychoanalyst Joan Riviere, one of Jones’s former patients, to whom he lent his country home during treatment, accused him of teasing her in the full knowledge that he was ‘irresistible to women’. Maddox writes: ‘Jones, all five foot four of him, had a flair for rapid captivation of the opposite ...”

“... allegations that [a prison teacher] Beverley Horne, 35, had sex sessions with Lester Jackson [a pupil inmate], who is serving a life sentence for beating an accountant to death with a baseball bat.’ And a few months ago the News of the World sent its ‘fake sheik’ to India to test the family values of the father of the nine-year-old girl who co-starred ...”

“... the following year. Christiaan died a rich man, having inherited a thousand guilders from his former master, a director-general of the slave fort Elmina. In the absence of an image of Christiaan, it’s tempting to let the marks of his pen make a portrait. His signature is a handsome one – clear and compact but spikily elegant. Its very presence on the ...”

“... affair which resembles no known intellectual, religious or social pattern. An old friend and former schoolmaster, Mr Sayer seems to intuit the ‘highly unusual boy’ in Lewis, and this makes his biographical memoir both more perceptive and more congenial than the already numerous official and professional studies. Lewis lost his mother very ...”