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“... United Nations’ role in the present crisis – a clear case of academics being as quick off the mark as journalists. Iraq’s claim depends on the proposition that Iraq is Turkey’s legal heir, and on the evidence, which exists but which is meagre, that in the 19th century the al-Sabah sheikhs of Kuwait acknowledged the suzerainty of the distant ...”

“... of matrimony.’ Dickens, too, gives us numerous servants who hover round sick-beds (Mrs Gamp, Mark Tapley), and sometimes identify with death in a more enterprising sense (Jagger’s housekeeper Molly, or Lady Dedlock’s maid Mlle Hortense, who both turn out to be murderers). His narrative energies are closely bound up with his authority as preserver or ...”

“... which is always to the realm of the social and always to the realm of the aesthetic.’ (Sam Weller: ‘This here’s what I call a self-evident proposition, as the dog-meat’s man said when the housemaid told him he warn’t a gentleman.’) The penultimate chapter is on the Blunt, de Man and Heidegger cases, which are all supposed to have still one ...”

“... we now take for granted in style culture, the ‘DNA of British youth culture, leaving its mark on glam and Northern Soul, punk and Two Tone, Britpop and rave’. But DNA is one thing, ‘leaving a mark’ quite another. Was Mod central and catalytic, or peripheral and intermittent? Because Mod itself came to signify ...”