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“... at least) on the courage and endurance of thousands of Argentines who stood their ground with little outside help against oppressors comparable in their sadism to those of Nazi Germany. Their accounts of the sufferings of individual prisoners are deeply moving, with the tale of Ingrid Dagmar Hagelin, a Swedish teenager, among the most poignant. The sad ...”

“... have sold at auction for a closely parallel figure, the explanations offered would surely have had little to do with the cost of encaustic medium or the size of the panel. Someone would have spoken of the importance of the particular work and, possibly, have argued that $17.5 million for Johns was perhaps not out of order if a Japanese purchaser had paid $82.5 ...”

“... denoted by vernacular colour terms in the past. In actual practice this perhaps mattered rather little. Apprentices would be taught the meanings of colour terms by ostension, so the master could be reasonably casual about what term was used to designate a specific pigment. And since in any case studio practices involved secrets of the trade, and each studio ...”

“... right? Indeed no.’ Or the chortling riffs and trills that infest his writing, and tell us very little: ‘How do you turn catastrophe into art?’ he asks in the Gericault section. ‘Nowadays, the process is automatic. A nuclear plant explodes? We’ll have a play on the London stage within the year. A president is assassinated? You can have the book or ...”

“... and that of Sir Ian MacGregor, vieux terrible of confrontation. ‘There is either too much or too little.’ Not since 1913, in fact, have the figures seemed roughly right. Coal had been ancillary, rather than essential, to Britain’s early Industrial Revolution. Demand had fluctuated consideraoly throughout much of the 19th century, but by the end of that ...”

“... which words and fantasies make no impression. This is the recognition with which the poem opens: Little by little it dawned on us that the row of kale would shortly be overwhelmed by these pink and cream blooms, that all of us would be overwhelmed. Even were his mother to make one of her increasingly rare appeals to ...”

“... since fully grown and each of them enmeshed in his own particular form of unhappiness, none of Arthur Friedland’s sons could recall whose idea it had actually been to go to the hypnotist that afternoon.’ The risk is that a memorable opening section, elaborately orchestrated, leaves a novel with nowhere to go, or at least with the obligation to start ...”

“... concrete questions ‘for which the theories with which British economists are weighed down are of little proven worth’. One might interject here the personal view that the real point is that French civil servants are much better educated than British ones, and thus quite able to spot a nutty economist when they meet one. Pollard does make weaknesses in the ...”

“... come out, smoking cigarettes, looking as though they slept in their clothes. Further along, in a little park, I see two policemen talking to a small group who look as though they slept in the park. This reminds me again of my stay here in 1977, when the town was full of young people and hippies escaping from the cold in the north. One of these was the Raw ...”

“... of her wedding, Mme Pasteur wrote to her daughter: ‘Your father, very busy as always, says little to me, sleeps little, and gets up at dawn – in a word, continues the life that I began with him 35 years ago today.’ One of his assistants called him a ‘secretive worker, who kept his ideas and projects to himself ...”

“... a sort of Christian martyrdom, observed with total lack of sympathy by the victim’s older son, Arthur. Miss Highsmith’s understanding of masculine thought and feeling (in such details as stone-throwing and shirt-buying) is as dazzling as ever. Her whodunnit talent for surprising twists still exhilarates: but this is a ‘straight’ novel, not a ...”

“... at once on a Triple Word Score with the Q on a Double Letter Score; otherwise it could mean as little as 17. The official arbitrator of what is allowed in Scrabble in the UK is the aptly named Chambers Official Scrabble Words, based on Chambers English Dictionary. In the US you need the Official Tournament and Club Word List, which in 1997 superseded The ...”

“... much of the known world. By these standards the betrothal of their fifth child to Prince Arthur of England was small beer. But not for England: the marriage of two successive heirs to the throne to the same daughter of the most formidable and militantly Christian monarchy in Europe represented the arriviste Tudor dynasty’s eager quest for ...”

“... In the annals of French literature, Arthur Cravan is more often a colourful footnote than a sober paragraph. He is usually referred to as ‘the poet and boxer Arthur Cravan’, and this odd-seeming conjunction is often fleshed out with more disreputable terms such as ‘con man’ or ‘adventurer ...”

“... at the University of Virginia School of law to dissect disparate aspects of one of the strangest little interludes in contemporary history. Several of their papers have been in corporated in a symposium of essays with a multi-disciplinary approach. This admirable attempt to deepen understanding of the Falk-lands’ yesterdays, todays and tomorrows in all ...”