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“... good fees in the 1820s. In 1841 Britain asserted dominion over Hong Kong and twelve years later Matthew Perry steamed into Edo. This is what was meant by freedom.Bosco’s book, with its legal slant, doesn’t really explain how Anglo-American maritime dominance came about. In the late 16th century, John Hawkins, a privateer who became treasurer of the ...”

“... A.R. Orage’s periodical, the New Age, and to meet Scottish intellectuals including the composer Francis George Scott (to whom Hugh MacDiarmid would dedicate A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle) and a French lecturer at Glasgow University called Denis Saurat (who is often credited with giving the 1920s Scottish literary renaissance its name). Most ...”

“... or non-verbal intelligence tests, and less well on verbal abilities and achievements’, and Francis Hsu’s Rorschach test results showing that ‘the stimulus as a whole has more salience for the Chinese; the parts for the Americans.’ Chinese upbringing leads to the ‘inhibition of exploratory playfulness’, and ‘Chinese are less creative than ...”

“... is, transported to Australia. Oliver’s role was exposed by the Leeds Mercury, and retold by Sir Francis Burdett in the House of Commons (Sidmouth ‘abused Oliver for a great fool for being detected’), but the operation was another successful exercise in sending shivers down the spines of the respectable classes and in justifying further acts of ...”

“... such as snakes held ‘as if they were birds’. In one celebration, an actor playing Saint Francis preached to the birds and then tamed a ‘wild beast’ in order to remind viewers that ‘if that wild animal can obey the word of God’ they could too. An Easter re-enactment of the expulsion of Adam and Eve, staged in Tlaxcala in 1539, enhanced the ...”

“... proceeded to extract from her luggage small statues of the Virgin Mary, Saint Teresa, Saint Francis of Assisi and Buddha. She placed the statues in the corners of the room, lit candles, knelt in the middle of the room, and stripped. ‘Come here, kneel beside me, and get undressed,’ she urged. ‘Let the fragrant smoke and my prayers touch your naked ...”

“... up a good fight. It’s not surprising to learn that Hughes especially admired the paintings of Francis Bacon, with their spattered bodies twisting about and screaming defiantly despite their homely prisons. As one of Hughes’s poems has it, ‘Life is Trying to be Life’; but then, as the poem continues, ‘Death also is trying to be life.’ Who will ...”

“... Romanian their sex is almost a wrestling match, one encounter in the mud of the farmyard like Francis Bacon’s painting. The bodies, on the few occasions it’s warm enough for them to get their kit off, are not glamorised at all, with the English actor fearless in the degree of his self-exposure. God’s Own Country stays in the mind as Call Me by Your ...”

“... which she collaged pictures of the actress, along with handwritten transcriptions from the Book of Matthew. (‘The stars she admired’, Cohen writes, invariably ‘condensed divinity and celebrity’.) Of the back-up goddess – Deputy Goddess Dietrich – there are likewise striking mementos, including a single yellow sock and a lipstick-smeared scarf, all ...”

“... And why weren’t they bringing her and Jeremiah and the others down? Zainab phoned her friend Francis who lived in the next block. ‘The firefighters are here,’ she said. ‘They have told us to stay.’ When he called her back she said Jeremiah had collapsed from the fumes. Francis was standing in the crowd below ...”