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“... a senior police officer, long concerned with the Calabresi case, would have rushed off to meet an unknown crêpe vendor with no great story to tell. In fact, it’s clear from the transcripts that both Colonel Bonaventura and Manlio Minale, the President of the Assizes, inadvertently let slip that Calabresi’s murder had been discussed during those nocturnal ...”

“... might have been a set-up for a Soviet ambush. But at this stage, mark well, Chambers was still unknown outside literary circles and had made no charges against anyone. This excellent book is intended as a biography and not as a study of the Hiss-Chambers case (which has generated a vast secondary literature of its own). Tanenhaus simply makes the ...”

“... he had refused Chirac. For the next five years he held office. The appointment of a relatively unknown personality as prime minister had an excellent precedent in the Fifth Republic – that of Pompidou (who was also of la République de professeurs). But the Fourth and Third Republics, too, had had their unknowns (when journalists tried to find out ...”

“... writing in any age; the truly modern is always sublime, an encounter with something previously unknown – the enemy, in other words, of fashion; mode is the travesty of the modern, its high-wire a catwalk. Modern writing makes each particular hair to stand on end; as the Fat Boy says, ‘I wants to make your flesh creep.’ What’s the point of ...”

“... beach on an inaccessible island near Ko Samui, a legend among backpackers, isolated, unspoiled and unknown to the Lonely Planet Guide. Accompanied by a young French couple, Etienne and Françoise, Richard sets out to find it. In the course of the book we learn in detail about Richard’s taste in video games and the countries he has visited. We learn from him ...”

“... If Karla Abrahamsen had been, as Erik’s half-sisters later suspected, virtually raped by an unknown, it would explain why she would never speak of her son’s parentage; on the other hand, the circumstances of his conception may simply have been discreditable or humiliating. The silence allowed him as he grew up to invent a Danish nobleman or artist to ...”

“... the Western Front, Joe Bonham, the soldier in Trumbo’s novel, lies in a similar condition in an unknown hospital. The nurses’ hands, the vibrations caused by people walking around the ward, the pain of the sheets against his wounds are his only contact with the outside world. He is unable to separate the present from his hallucinations of the past: work ...”

“... red figures are, in their crowd, drifting about in various directions with an air of carrying out unknown but pedantic ...”

“... rewrite of The Dunciad. Yet the cadences of optimism in Pope’s Essay (‘All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee;/All Chance, Direction, which thou canst not see’) again and again echo Shaftesbury’s Theocles, with his certainty that ‘All is manag’d for the best, with perfect Frugality and just Reserve.’ In his less excited moments, his sayings can ...”

“... ward of fading matinee idols, consider this. He may be an obscure fogey to young TV viewers and an unknown quantity in college lit. courses (where his novels are considered too commercial for the syllabuses), but his political espousals have never been more in vogue on the activist front. His constant drumbeats against American imperialism, the corruption of ...”

“... which the student unconsciously learns as he goes on, but the main principles of which are as yet unknown to us’. I’m not in a position to report that indifference to theory has ceased. Most of the teaching of English is still, I imagine, a mixture of practical criticism, literary history, and intermittently the lore of politics and sociology. But it is ...”

“... was restless and throbbing with movement; streams were gliding forward filled with a longing for unknown waters; winds were moving to and fro with the indecision of homeless wayfarers; leaves were dropping from the brown branches, falling down the curves of the wind silently and slowly to the great earth that whispered out the secret of everlasting ...”

“... and lest we should miss the point, ‘Hail, divine innocence!’ growls the author. In ‘The Unknown Woman’ (a tale which Raitt considers misogynistic, though if we are to read it in that way it is better termed misanthropic), the heroine, cut off from ordinary life by deafness – and by superiority of sensibility – tells her would-be lover, himself ...”

“... would be if Max Ophuls had decided to make a film of it, as he did of Zweig’s ‘Letter from an Unknown Woman’. Zweig’s text unites perfect narrative control with exceptional psychological subtlety. But it also shows an extreme attention to visual detail – never the set-piece description but the kind of ‘close-up’ at a moment of high drama which ...”

“... in the proper style, ‘down through a seam in the mantle of darkness that covers the face of the unknown, down into the depths of my subconscious’ – hallucinations and a giddying amnesia take him over without his knowledge. The most frightening part of the book is the queasy middle section, where hypnotic regression therapy (in which Gregory is ...”