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“... Convention and later been appointed as a special assistant to Johnson’s attorney general, Ramsey Clark. Nixon had just got rid of him and now, in his late forties, he had started his own consultancy. The organisers were against conspicuous policing, and so was Pomeroy. He would be the watchful father looking through the window as the young began ...”

“... In Being and Nothingness Sartre has an admirable passage about the stubborn human tendency to ‘fill’, the fact that a good part of human life, in politics as elsewhere, is devoted to ‘plugging up holes’. Holes are vacant, and the humdrum psychopathy of political life seeks them out, in the cause of repletion – by contrast, the bore of omnipresence, as Sartre implies later when speculating about what life as the Almighty must be like, is that you just don’t get out enough ...”

“... of Lincoln and Chester Arthur. After a few words from Rudrakumaran, the former US attorney general Ramsey Clark rambled on about world peace from beneath a Tiger flag emblazoned with criss-crossed AK-47s. The Rajapaksa years now look like the most ignominious period in the country’s post-independence history. The government squandered the huge amount of ...”

“... of explorers, famous in their day, but now known only to Arctic buffs, such as John and James Clark Ross, Rae, Pullen, Collinson, M’Clure, Austin, Ommanney, Richardson, Penny, DeHaven, Kane, Forsyth, Bellot, Kennedy, Belcher, Inglefield, M’Clintock – and names of ships, such as ...”

“... sequence of experiments, since it attempts (with debatable success) to define it, by the method of Ramsey, Savage and others, via individuals’ preferences for different actions (such as gambles). The second argument for indeterminism is the centrepiece of the second volume, and is an attack on the possibility of Laplace’s demon, a creature who, if ...”

“... condemned person is not black, it still plays its part. McFeely quotes the former Attorney General Ramsey Clark’s impassioned plea in a Federal court for the life of John Spenkelink, the first person in line for execution under the new laws passed to meet the Supreme Court’s objections in the Furman decision: because Spenkelink was white, his ...”