Wednesday, 27 July 2011

The most truly eccentric dresser in the country is the Queen

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The most truly eccentric dresser in the country is the Queen, who pays no attention whatsoever to fashion, mainstream or otherwise, continui...
Friday, 22 July 2011

In the security bred of many harmless marriages

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In the security bred of many harmless marriages, it had been forgotten that Love is no hothouse flower, but a wild plant, born of a wet nigh...
Friday, 24 June 2011

The man whose voice had resonated from the tomb of exile

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The man [de Gaulle] whose voice had resonated from the tomb of exile and emboldened its cringing listeners in their darkened rooms had strid...

Baron Haussmann will not be asked to die for his Emperor

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Baron Haussmann will not be asked to die for his Emperor, but he is prepared to sacrifice his reputation, which is besmirched almost every d...
Wednesday, 22 June 2011

One can and may blame the wicked Fourth Crusade

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Though one may bitterly deplore, as I do most fervently, that the Turks ever set foot in Europe, it would be absurd to blame them for the de...
Monday, 20 June 2011

Nobody listens, but it is never turned off

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The instrument [the radio] is nearly always faulty, all these sounds, turned on full blast, are strung in the connecting thread of an unbrok...

Each village was a long solid sheaf of towers

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Each village was a long solid sheaf of towers. There were scores of them climbing into the sky in a rustic metropolis, each tower seeming to...