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“... him, to see him as, at best, the poor man’s Arnold Bennett or, even less charitably, as Wilfred Pickles between hard covers. (In attempting to correct this, it is not necessary to go as far as one later admirer who wrote a book about him as the ‘last of the sages’.) One deterrent to taking too patronising a view is provided by his own sense of his ...”

“... train at Rockaway Avenue,’ it begins, ‘and smell the leak out of the men’s room, then the pickles from the stand just below the subway steps, an instant rage comes over me, mixed with dread and some unexpected tenderness.’ The book is lyrical, rhapsodic, extremely tender about the places and people of Kazin’s Brooklyn childhood – and one never ...”

“... of the day to tell them the good news – a mixed bag: Winston Churchill, Semprini, Wilfred Pickles, Val Doonican – and he would show you a sheaf of their acknowledgments. ‘He’s batchy,’ Dad would say, meaning ‘he’s barmy,’ but it certainly kept him happy.7 February. Ploughing on with the Francis Bacon biography, a depressing book with the ...”

“... advice in the police station last year. (The communities and local government minister, Eric Pickles, managed to find £250 million to ensure that everyone in the country had weekly rubbish collections 48 hours before the Tory Party Conference.) So how do we get to a legal aid budget of £2.2 billion? The most important driver of the legal aid budget is ...”

“... on Business Appointments (Acoba) – currently led by David Cameron’s anti-corruption tsar, Eric Pickles – seldom, if ever, stands in the way of plum private sector jobs. Conflicts of interest abound. In July 2019, Priti Patel didn’t notify Acoba that she had been working as a consultant for the US company Viasat until a month after becoming home ...”

“... can only be a matter of time.Churchill is only one of the celebrities he has written to. Wilfred Pickles, Isobel Barnett, Semprini, a personality has scarcely to shove his or her nose above the horizon before Uncle Norris tries to enlist them in the no feet in the socks campaign. And his faith never falters. When he is already dying, he sends a letter ...”

“... defunct) cooking column. ‘Skarfing Material’ gave such suggestions as: ‘Gather as many pickles as you like. Wrap each pickle in a piece of ham and skarf. Dip ‘em in peanut butter for extra thrills.’ At least one recipe an issue was for a passable, or even skater-gourmet meal (like risotto). Thrasher knew nobody was cooking for us. In a stack of ...”

“... Maidan protesters slept on home-made plywood bunks; much of the floor was covered in food, jars of pickles, sacks of potatoes, bags of bread. The revolution was over, but the forces still on the square anticipated a betrayal by the political beneficiaries of the blood that had been shed: they were determined to stay put. Everywhere there were shrines, with ...”

“... face fees up to 40 per cent higher than the bulk deals agreed by local government. In 2010, Eric Pickles, then secretary of state for communities and local government, announced a government ‘commitment to adult social care, providing councils with sufficient resources’. He even promised ‘extra money’ for social services. Few believed it at the ...”

“... you would be so powerful.Lincoln in the Bardo​ I first opened over a dish of Japanese pickles while I was snowed in at a conference in Minneapolis. Besides that, there was nothing to do but visit the Wheat Museum. The old George Saunders would have liked that, I thought, but he was someone new now. The history teacher paced outside in the ...”

“... or toad-in-the-hole, with a duff of pastry and raisins for pudding. Supper might yield cheese and pickles, eggs, tinned rabbit or salmon. Cooking formed no part of a rating’s basic training. Every rating learned to cook by cooking for his shipmates, and therefore, if he were to keep the friendly esteem of his mess, he would need to learn to make the best of ...”

“... village statist economies, their hard-currency stores full of Johnnie Walker and Lithuanian pickles, and their ‘modernisation’ plans for peasant agriculture were not condemned out of hand by supporters in Europe. Nor was much said about repression. The MPLA moved hard on dissenters, including enthusiastic young leftists whose ideas were thought to ...”