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“... his original plan,1 having already been ‘wowed’ by the two apartment towers Mies had built on Lake Shore Drive in Chicago, which made a brutal aesthetic of the unadorned steel from which they were constructed: ‘You might think this austere strength, this ugly beauty, is terribly severe,’ she concluded. ‘It is, and yet all the more beauty in it.’2 ...”

“... Peter Prince’s admirable novel, The Good Father, is about a group of professional-class people in the London Borough of Lambeth, trying to see themselves as liberal and left-wing. They were students together in the late 1960s and are struggling to maintain in the 1980s the package of liberal values (or ‘received ideas’) which they shared so confidently in their youth ...”

“... was brought in to ensure aesthetic standards were maintained. He worked with two architects, Peter Daniel and Franc Dixon, on one of the housing schemes, Sunny Blunts, described by the Twentieth Century Society as ‘visually exciting flat-roof housing with brickwork and factory prefabricated timber infill panels’. The houses were grouped in ...”

“... spoke to anybody, the shop was privately run so you couldn’t afford to shop here anyway.’ Peter Harris, another volunteer, was one of the first to move in, from his native Fakenham, in 2008. His career as a road engineer had been cut short when he slipped while carrying a 75kg kerbstone and badly injured his back. He hasn’t worked since. The ...”

“... dollars,’ read the sales person from the ticket that dangled from the arm.   ‘I’ll lake a dozen, send them up to Taliesin.’ Next he ordered a dozen Chinese rugs. At Lyon and Healy’s he saw a concert grand piano. He caressed its keys with his Beethoven-like fingers, then ordered three ... Soon we were seated comfortably in the Pompeian Room ...”

“... one of North America’s largest medical schools – in the University of Toronto on the shores of Lake Ontario. Bliss says he was a tall and handsome young man who spent much of his spare time with his girlfriend. He was intended for the Methodist ministry and perhaps for this reason never learned to dance. War shortened the medical course and in 1917, after ...”

“... delays this noticing and intensifies bliss. His colours – emerald-green, cobalt-blue, crimson-lake – keep their individuality. When he paints a bowl of fruit, a plum is a wonderful patch of purple black, a colour to be plucked in its own right and cherished in its relation to the yellow patch beside it, and at the same time just a plum – heavy, juicy ...”

“... of all time, that he had martyred early Christians and perhaps even sent two apostles, Peter and Paul, to their deaths and subsequent sainthood. The scale and intensity of the fire would be hard to overstate. It spread quickly from one of the shops adjoining the Circus Maximus to the Circus itself, the upper levels of which were largely made of ...”

“... implications of the new railways’ capacity for moving hordes of people into somewhere like the Lake District, so a newer mass translation of the populace is behind Paradise News: nowadays the wide-bodied jet enables hundreds, thousands, hundreds of thousands of us all of a sudden to be the other side of the world, and Lodge to beam a whole plane-load of ...”

“... a plague of anxiety, debate in the smoky Romanisches Café; picnic in the woods by the Marditzer lake (Fenichel brings along his typewriter). Alix Strachey, Freud’s translator, has tea with the Eitingons: ‘I suspect the man of having taste,’ she wrote, ‘or perhaps his wife. It was heavenly to lean back and look at rows and rows of bookshelves, and ...”

“... historical documentation. He has a fascinating and meticulous chapter on the economy of the Lake District in the late 18th century, which manages (as close reading alone cannot) to alert us to significant omissions from Wordsworth’s writings. He illuminates the way that the characteristic Wordsworthian landscape plays down an actual predominance of ...”

“... buildings; the nearby Orangerie and the Karlsaue park with its lawns and paths and ornamental lake, home to a host of temporary pavilions and installations; the disused hulk of the Binding Brewery, now converted into an art palace accessible by free Documenta bus; and the city’s central railway station, the Hauptbahnhof, renamed the Kulturbahnhof in ...”

“... by the crown to rule over and make new treaties in the territories between the Limpopo River and Lake Tanganyika, and Rhodes used it to further his mining interests; he had begun buying up mines at the age of 18 with the backing of Rothschild, and founded De Beers in 1888. When the territories rebelled, Rhodes used the BSAC’s own police force to crush the ...”

“... Titian’s Schiavona in the National Gallery she explains that it is ‘glazed with costly madder lake’; has been thought to represent Queen Caterina Cornaro (nonsense that she should have refuted); is ‘one of the earliest three-quarter-length portraits in Italian painting’; and that, before the artist painted the woman’s head in relief on the parapet ...”

“... showed it contained no glucose.Only This Morning, said the other man, a lady rang me up from the Lake District, where two years ago she and her children, while walking around the shore of a tarn, also came upon this white jelly, and on that occasion there were 16 lumps.The man from Japanese TV was hunkered down and searching in his huge attaché case.What ...”