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“... a gentle virility which recalls the delicate strength of figures in Raphael; Mireille Maalouf, binding her eyes to share her blind husband’s disability and transfixed by every fresh disclosure of the war, gives Gandhari a dignity and tragic acceptance which owe much to bitter experience of the war in her native Lebanon; Mattias Habich as Yudishthira is a ...”

“... first importance to figure out the workings of this hegemonic ‘common sense’ that Hall saw as binding together the millions who voted for Thatcher throughout the 1980s, because she stood up to the unions, because she sank the Belgrano and won the Falklands War, because she let you buy your council house. ‘How do we make sense of an ideology which is not ...”

“... had billed me on delivery, as agreed, for the third and final instalment of the total printing and binding costs. In 1980, as a matter of record, this was £2,298 for 1500 superior-looking paperbacks to be sold to the public at £3.95 each. Distribution proved daunting. But before that a publication date had to be chosen. I settled for 28 March. Books, I ...”

“... might have done better if mixed with economists of other views like Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman. Obama knew little economics, however, and he took the word of the orthodox. It would have been wiser, from a merely prudential standpoint, to consult Summers behind a screen. But Obama has always craved legitimacy in a conspicuous form. He is a ...”

“... Sékou Touré, the rising anticolonial star in Guinea, advocated outright independence with no binding ties to France (‘we have one prime and essential need: our dignity’). De Gaulle warned Guineans that a strike of this kind against French influence would be a Pyrrhic victory and when Sékou Touré’s cause prevailed, France was as good as its ...”

“... savage passes through Tahiti, from Rousseau by way of Banks and the besotted crew of HMS Bounty to Paul Gauguin.And there were much gossiped about passages of dodgy behaviour on home soil. Departing on the voyage to the South Seas, Banks left behind a young lady, Harriet Blosset, so convinced he had made a promise to marry that she spent three years knitting ...”

“... the Sex Pistols as Johnny Rotten or Sid Vicious, eclipsing the group’s musical muscle: drummer Paul Cook, guitarist Steve Jones and bassist Glen Matlock. (It was Matlock who wrote nearly all the group’s best tunes, only to be pushed out for being a Beatles-loving middle-class namby.) Andrew Loog Oldham, who managed the Rolling Stones, was the crucial ...”

“... creation of a head of ‘story development’. The post of official fabulist was filled by Paul Hamill, who would play an inglorious role in the fabrication of the Dodgy Dossier of September 2002.We weren’t careful what we half-wished for. We did not anticipate the effects a free-flowing, direct, 24/7 style of communication would have on the quality ...”

“... a paradigm of the ‘classic’ – that is to say, of that notion of a literary model or measure binding on all European cultures. In his T.S. Eliot Lectures of 1973 (published as The Classic) he widened Eliot’s own discussion in What is a classic? by relating it to current controversies about ‘intention’, about whether it matters what the author of an ...”

“... as a knight for the white power cause. For more than a century, anti-communism was a reliable binding agent on the American right. Disparate factions, from tax protesters and libertarians to fundamentalist Christians, from anti-abortion activists to the Ku Klux Klan and white power terror cells, could share a common enemy. For much of the 20th ...”

“... de Gaulle for her work on behalf of the Resistance.) Padre Pio of Pietrelcina, canonised by John Paul II in 2002, was said to have risen into the clouds to prevent Allied bombers destroying the town of San Giovanni Rotondo.Eire calls​ the shared acceptance of marvels in the pre-modern period ‘one of the oddest wrinkles in early modern history’. Both ...”

“... and agents – it isn’t clear that he ever understood the status of a contract as a legally binding document. The delayed arrival of the recognition to which he felt entitled made him unappeasable when it came.There were nasty homophobic elements in reviews of his work; Alfred Sundel used the word ‘faggot’ seven times in one paragraph while ...”

“... tipped-in colour plate against matt black page, gold classical capital letters on ivory buckrum binding, and all the other characteristic devices which Goldscheider brought to perfection while time ran out. Meanwhile Dr Horovitz, the pioneer of coproduction, arranged for the translation of the books into English. At least one of them was translated from ...”

“... worse. Behind his high doctrine of the sovereignty of parliament, unencumbered by rival power or binding precedent, ‘lurks the menacing, insatiable sovereign will of the people – the id to Westminster’s ego’. The tenets of Diceyan constitutionalism, despite appearances, amount in the end to little more than a formula for ‘mob-rule’, as his own ...”