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“... in his mid-teens, Husain had begun attending the East London mosque with Brother Falik, a fellow pupil at Stepney Green. Funded with Saudi money, the mosque was a hotbed of extremism, both political and religious. Its principal ideologue was the founder of Jamat-e-Islami, Abul Ala Mawdudi. Mawdudi taught his followers that the most dangerous enemy to an ...”

“... in your kissThat I have not found yetIn the kisses of womenOr in the honey of their bodies.One former pupil of St Enda’s, the school Pearse set up, said: ‘Pearse used to kiss the young boys. He tried to kiss me but I would not have it.’ ‘Pearse was under a cloud because it was known that he used to kiss boys in his school,’ another ...”

“... of the early Fathers. Figures such as Cyprian of Carthage and Gregory Thaumaturgus, the latter a pupil of Origen, a graduate of the Beirut law school and then a missionary bishop, give scope to Lane Fox’s descriptive powers and invite the occasional Gibbonian comment, but it is still the exceptional rather than the ordinary that we learn about. In the ...”

“... in reality or is merely arbitrary. Within the dialogue the character called Cratylus maintains the former doctrine, one Hermogenes the latter, while Socrates (here as always the philosophic hero) proves elusive. Professor Barton chooses to confine Plato’s problem to proper nouns. In the original dialogue the thought is allowed to overflow from proper nouns ...”

“... of Dos Passos’s USA trilogy (which came out the year before). Woundingly, even Steinbeck’s former high school teacher, Miss Cupp, gave it as her opinion that The Grapes of Wrath was not an ‘authentic’ book. Her old pupil was simply (as he had years ago in the classroom) latching on to other people’s ways of ...”

“... post by a woman called Taylor Birch, who has revived an accusation of sexual assault against a former high school teacher. Taylor first made her allegation more than a decade earlier, when she was 14, but this time people are listening. The accused is Jacob Strane, a man with whom Vanessa has had a relationship since she was a 15-year-old schoolgirl and he ...”

“... Then, with the recklessness of the dying, he divorced his wife and married his mistress, Kate, a former student turned actress, 20 years younger than himself (Inglis reasonably wonders whether all his foreign travel in the late 1930s was driven less by a spirit of adventure and a confidence in the healthy properties of sea air, more by a desire to escape ...”

“... Jean​ Jaurès was a deserving child of the French republican meritocracy. An outstanding pupil from the town of Castres, near Toulouse, he came top in the entrance exam for the École Normale Supérieure, where he specialised in philosophy. In 1885, at the age of 25, he was elected as a Republican deputy for his home town ...”

“... come alive for me.’ This wasn’t the usual story of the worldly sage and his impressionable pupil, however. Friedel was insecure, self-conscious about his stutter and his looks (which were ‘extraterritorial’, according to Adorno), while Teddie, whom the sociologist Leo Löwenthal described as ‘the pampered young gentleman from a well-to-do ...”

“... America’, a term they coined. They argued that, as Latins, the French resembled the former subjects of Iberian empires in being instinctive monarchists and Catholics, and so were best placed to lead them in resisting the aggression of Protestant, Anglo-Saxon and republican America. Unfortunately, the French and the Mexicans differed over the ...”

“... Gustav Mahler and the writer Franz Werfel, Walter Gropius’s divorced wife and Oscar Kokoshka’s former lover. Thomas Mann, who was one of the guests, offered ‘cordial felicitations on your special day’. Some of Mann’s friends were astonished that he could maintain his friendship with Alma when he had been such a prominent opponent of Nazism. After ...”

“... and began to collaborate with the dancer-choreographers Rudolf Laban and Mary Wigman, who was a pupil of Dalcroze, the creator of eurhythmics. High in the Alps, on Monte Verita, Laban had taken over what we would now regard as a counter-cultural or New Age commune for his dance school, moving in permanently after the outbreak of war stranded him there in ...”

“... and some became editors. In a phrase that would no doubt have set the head of Mr Turner’s former Head anodding, we learn of the society in which ‘the journalist rated somewhere between apothecary and cat-skinner.’ And the seediest of these parson-scribes found a natural home in the Grub Street of the day, an acre or two of foundling newspapers and ...”

“... aspect of Durrell’s ambiguous Grail consists – as befits a banned author of the Thirties and a former associate of Henry Miller – of ‘love-lore’ or the secrets of sex. These, which have something to do with ‘dual control’ in the love-act and simultaneous orgasm, are passed down from master or mistress to hand-picked ...”

“... Planeta’, as Philip was called), in the manner of Versailles a generation later. Velazquez was a pupil of Pacheco’s at Seville, and he was brought to the court of Philip IV as part of the ‘Seville connection’ associated with Olivares. A study of Velazquez at court was thus an obvious choice for Brown to make when he was invited to deliver the Slade ...”