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“... out wetted as keen as a razor.’ De Quincey remembered that he ‘was often able to train the roll of stammers into settling upon the words immediately preceding the effective one; by which means the key-note of the jest or sarcasm, benefiting by the sudden liberation of his embargoed voice, was delivered with the force of a pistol shot’. Lamb was able ...”

“... a good deal of qualification, Michael Oakeshott; on the Left there is the author’s contemporary Eric Hobsbawm. Others’ heroes – Raymond Williams, for instance – are sometimes harshly dismissed (‘a nonconformist spellbinder, rhetorical, evasive and vacuous’). These judgments are made by an author whose discipline is the history of ideas. Like ...”

“... one may object that is not so interesting or original in its wording as to be worth anthologising. Eric Partridge, who was diversely interesting and original, is not well served by a slew of 23 dedications which includes such flat entireties as these: – For F. Chesney Horwood, scholar and friend. – For Essie and Diana Browning, with affection. The ...”

“... man.’ We get a quick glimpse of the staring eyes of the corpse, and the credits start to roll. The first season of The Wire has begun. The meaning of the explanation seems clear enough: brutal and old-fashioned, or entrepreneurial, if you prefer. This is the land of opportunity, and an opportunity is an obligation. You take what you can when you ...”

“... in breach of broadcasting rules for a segment in which a guest claimed that the Covid vaccine roll-out was ‘mass murder’ comparable to the actions of ‘doctors in pre-Nazi Germany’. The channel’s inflammatory content is popular on social media. Millions viewed a clip of Calvin Robinson, a deacon in the Free Church of England and one-time Brexit ...”

“... the lesser ranks of society, is almost impossible for the 18th century or earlier, though the late Eric Cregeen made some progress in this direction. The preferences and attitudes of the bosses had much to do with the eventual assimilation of Highland to Lowland culture and law. The junction of the English and Lowland Scottish societies, proceeded ...”

“... a veil over her head, looking very like a Russian doll – as broad as she was high and ready to roll back into place if knocked over. She had large coarse features and limbs and crimson-dyed hair, and she had a very strong Scottish accent.’ Her distresses make more poignant reading than Epstein’s critical reverses. At one point she invited his mistress ...”

“... for whom we have a contemporary likeness – he is depicted in the 1511 Westminster Tournament Roll, an illustrated manuscript – but his absence from the many representations of Henry VIII’s court is telling.Two hundred years later, the black population of Georgian Britain was made up of sailors, street-sellers, servants and slaves. Its size was ...”

“... themselves. Debts were collected by refugee ‘co-ops’: as one official told the British banker Eric Hambro, a ‘frictionless eviction of a lazy cultivator by his own fellows’ was the commission’s preferred means of control. But its projects were still seen as harsh and intrusive, and were openly criticised during General Pangalos’s short-lived coup ...”

“... with their small child, a record player and music that was a revelation to us: Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy. A day or two before we were due to leave, we stumbled on a crowd of young people, maybe a couple of hundred, near the Place Saint-Michel. The traffic was backed up; in the distance we heard the sound of martial clanking and boots on pavement. The ...”

“... for the Paris exhibition was a pedestal as much as a building, but a pedestal which seemed to roll forward with the colossal striding figures it supported. Mukhina’s group was made to be viewed from below – from in front and from the side (only from the side do hammer and sickle lock into the familiar pattern). The straight arms of the figures, and ...”

“... reference to the work of W.G. Runciman). Odd, too, that Appleton and Aston are missing from the roll-call of the Cavendish. Still, there is only one staggering omission. He describes the genesis of physiology under Michael Foster but never mentions Adrian, Hodgkin or Huxley, all Nobel Laureates and masters of Trinity, who immediately after the war worked in ...”

“... Besançon and Rouen. In the 20th century, cinema has relayed the tradition. The extreme example is Eric Rohmer, whose Comédies et proverbes and Contes des quatre saisons include settings in Clermont-Ferrand, Annecy, Le Mans, Biarritz, Cergy-Pontoise, Nevers, St Malo. The list, like that of Impressionist paintings a century earlier, leans towards ...”

“... mention when they apply for a rise in wages.In this way they decide from above, from the roll of dollars,in this way the dwarf traitor receives his instructions,and the generals act as the police force,and the trunk of the tree of the country rots.This warning was published in 1967, just after the CIA had abolished civilian rule in ...”

“... 1 January 2003. A Christmas card from Eric Korn:This is the one about JesusAnd his father who constantly sees usLike CCTV from aboveBut they call it heavenly love;And the other a spook or a birdOr possibly merely a Word.Rejoice! We are ruled thru’ infinityBy this highly dysfunctional Trinity!10 January. In George Lyttelton’s Commonplace Book it’s recorded that Yeats told Peter Warlock that after being invited to hear ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ (a solitary man’s expression of longing for still greater solitude) sung by a thousand Boy Scouts he set up a rigid censorship to prevent anything like that ever happening again ...”