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“... in his tribal village 600 kilometres from Johannesburg. They are all decent people – the two white liberals, their young children, the trusted servant, the peaceable villagers. All human instinct argues that this is not, after all, an impossible situation. Nadine Gordimer, in her unsparing new novel, suggests otherwise. Her recent Burger’s ...”

“... into the New World. In the royal charter that Queen Elizabeth conferred on Sir Humphrey Gilbert in 1583, she granted him full power over the soil of ‘those large and ample countreys [that] extended Northward from the cape of Florida … to dispose thereof, of every part thereof in fee simple or otherwise, according to the order of the laws of ...”

“... Memorial Theatre at Stratford-on-Avon was closed. But around 11 a.m. a girl called Eileen White noticed ‘an awful lot of smoke’ pouring from the back of the building. When she told her aunt she was reassured that it was only ‘Mr Gisbourne’s bonfire’. An hour later, the theatre manageress, Alice Rainbow, was finally warned that the building ...”

“... a doll’s house – with Bawden and others was ‘a riot’, ‘gosh!’ Reading and illustrating Gilbert White’s Selborne distracted him from other jobs: ‘There are bustards on the wide downs near Brighthelmstone,’ he quoted in a letter. ‘Isn’t that a beautiful statement?’ One reviewer of his 1939 show at Arthur Tooth’s gallery said that ...”

“... Waugh did become interested in himself as a literary model – very much so – and The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold is a masterpiece of self-portraiture, one of the very best in English fiction. Even so it might never have been created had it not been for the remarkable things that happened to its author and his consciousness, as a result of a cocktail of ...”

“... member of, and of which he is giving the reader offhand telegraphic glimpses in dazzling black and white. Anything about Waugh is still news, and this must explain the demand which Martin Stannard’s biography sets out to satisfy, which it does very well. Waugh certainly belongs to that category of personalities, of whom Byron is the most obvious ...”

“... of Cuba, constitutes a black community. From their local situation, their past of slavery and white domination, and from the information they hear on the radio and television concerning the social and political activity of the mass of the population in advanced countries, this body of people has derived political ideas and aspirations which their rulers ...”

“... murderer). Diana, Broughton’s second wife, who was later to become successively the wife of Gilbert de Préville Colvile and of Tom, the fourth Baron Delamere. Gwladys, Lady Delamere (Tom’s stepmother, wife of the third Baron, who broke the news to Broughton that ‘Joss is wildly in love with Diana’). Plus a number of walk-on, climb-on or lie-down ...”

“... tribe, who are awed out of their murderous intentions by the spectacle of Good’s false teeth and white legs. Good, the light-relief character, is forced to walk much of the journey without his trousers, so enamoured of his lower half are the Kukuana people. The tribesmen are also impressed by Quatermain’s gun, as he picks off an antelope from seventy yards ...”

“... Olivier died in 1966. Her apartment was ransacked and personal papers stolen. Her godson, Gilbert Krill, retrieved what was left of her Souvenirs and pieced them together to make a book. In 1988, with Picasso long dead, it was published in France. Loving Picasso is a retranslation, editing and amalgamation of the two memoirs. Were Picasso able, from ...”

“... only inspire the traditional football crowd’s advice to the referee to get himself a dog and a white stick. As for the exclusion of all signs of Land Art, the failure to put a photograph or two of Walter de Maria’s Lightning Field into an exhibition of the American art of our time is equivalent to not putting an engraving or two after the Sistine Chapel ...”

“... that exhibition was to be slid into something that looked like an MRI machine by two assistants in white lab coats. Once inside you were bathed in soft blue light. There were two settings and I had, naturally, opted for the stronger. The light began to pulse and change. Headphones played beatless music that encouraged complete surrender to a non-corporeal ...”

“... The litany of gerunds in Percival Everett by Virgil Russell surpasses the mere fourteen offered by Gilbert Ryle in The Concept of Mind (‘knowing, learning, discovering’ etc). The narrator of Glyph (1999) has yet to mark his first birthday but can already outsmart his poststructuralist father. Philosophers of language have been frequent subjects of his ...”

“... Joy Division renamed themselves New Order. They embraced computer technology and recruited Gillian Gilbert to play keyboards, the guitarist became the singer, and they went on to make a string of commercially and critically successful records, including ‘Blue Monday’ (the biggest selling 12-inch single of all time). New Order’s profits were used by ...”

“... hens and ducks. (Geese in the picture.) The dressing-gown itself is one Stanley’s brother Gilbert gave him when Stanley ‘went into hospital for his first gallstone operation’. And the goitre? This is ‘procreative symbolism’, which demands ‘that the saint be huge, female in form, indeed pregnant, his head ... equated in form to the function ...”