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“... responding to a senator’s aide who is sure the agency has sent an innocent man off to an unnamed North African country for questioning. Or for pointless violence and humiliation, since nobody really believes he knows anything. This is a decent liberal movie caught up itself in the double-think of the War on Terror. I’m sure the writer and director of ...”

“... the dutiful city worker Brushing the statue with a toothbrush in the night There’s Nixon at St Joseph and 5th Seated, hands folded on his lap, the way he did In the midst of ‘delicate negotiations with Mao’ This is what it says at the base Bless them, Nixon and Mao both Men of peace, soldiers of God The bronze is cold in the High Plains night The eyes ...”

“... be sold. As nurseries expanded they took on the sons of labourers as apprentices; a few, like Joseph Paxton, the son of a farm worker who became head gardener at Chatsworth, made a career for themselves. The most successful were frequently Scottish – Scotland chiefly appears in Willes’s book as a source of gardeners for the English – and their ...”

“... his rebellious heir to Bayonne, where he forced them both to abdicate in favour of his own brother Joseph. He counted on his troops already in the Peninsula to enforce the transition, but faced insurrections in numerous cities and towns. In Madrid, the French army restored order with the savage repression that Goya captured in his brilliant tableaux of the Dos ...”

“... site from which to advertise, what better place than the altar? The character and situation of Joseph interests me partly because in most paintings of this period, and until the end of the 16th century, he has to take a back seat, particularly in paintings of the Adoration. He’s often so much in the background that one wonders if his role in the Holy ...”

“... Isle of Man, in 1858. His father was a sculptor and stonemason: so were two of his four brothers, Joseph and Mark. Robert became a jeweller, while Charles was a churchman, who moved to India where he became a chaplain in Delhi as well as a folklorist. The stories contained in his book Romantic Tales from the Punjab, were, he said, of the ‘highest possible ...”

“... The British have made an integrated national army out of the two guerrilla forces and the North Koreans have invited themselves to train a separate praetorian guard. The IMF has been reluctantly admitted. The Development Plan, long delayed, has been published, seen to be a nonsense, and stands gospel on the shelf. Landless peasants have occupied ...”

“... when you look south, you see the unsightly coast of the Gulf of San Miguel. Only when you look north do you see a vast expanse of water. It seems a little farfetched that Balboa should have looked north and seen a South Sea. He wanted, in any case, to own all that he couldn’t see, ...”

“... the UN secretary general, described it as ‘genocide’. On the same day, the president, Joseph Kasa-Vubu, dismissed Lumumba. Since independence, the crisis has moved eastwards, to Ituri and Kivu, where the cross-border movement of soldiers and refugees has exacerbated domestic tensions. Ituri lies in the ...”

“... Ickes replied, ‘because you won’t talk frankly, even with people who are loyal to you.’ Joseph Persico, whose admiration for FDR, like that of many Americans, is close to hero-worship, treats FDR’s endless deceptions and tricks with indulgence. John Steinbeck, whom FDR once persuaded to do some spying for him in Mexico, came to the conclusion that ...”

“... series of Robin Hood stories was compiled, complete with pseudo-historical introduction, by Joseph Ritson in 1795, and it was Ritson, inspired by the French Revolution, who first introduced the notion that Robin robbed the rich to give to the poor. It remained for Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe to create the figure who underlies the children’s stories ...”

“... me where to find you.’ Pückler announced his plans to travel extensively, perhaps in America, North Africa or the Near East, and she felt ‘dread as if you were quitting me’, which indeed he was. Plaintively she asked: ‘Have you forgotten your Weibchen?’ Sarah now suffered a nervous collapse: I ought to tell you that I have been very ill. It was ...”

“... Barocci, but it doesn’t work, chiefly because what is meant for melting delight on the face of Joseph as he looks down on the infant Christ becomes a slightly mad grimace. A painting by Barocci of Saint Francis receiving the stigmata arrived at the Met while the Goltzius exhibition was there (it is the first autograph canvas painting by this great artist ...”

“... he seemed to make his way into whatever I was doing, even the unlikeliest things. Into Kafka. Into Joseph Roth. He got into everything. Nothing seemed to be free of him, or to go without him. Perhaps it’s because of the contradictory or revisionist impulses you find in him everywhere, so he is all over many arguments. Into the past (the dinnseanchas poems of ...”

“... high value he attached to the idiomatic word ‘fellow’. There is a passage in Jessie Conrad’s Joseph Conrad as I knew him which, with its progression from tragic entreaty to Anglo-Saxon understatement, nicely epitomises Conrad’s halfway naturalisation. The Conrads were crossing the North Sea, in 1914, en route for ...”