It's a marvellous case study in Cybersyn capitalism.
Also marvellous is his study of Simon de Monfort, the foremost French general, oxlike, pious, and fearless — a sort of war machine — who, having been instructed to wipe out the heresy, was then forced to listen endlessly to the Pope's scruples about canon law, feudal law, other law.
That happened not long ago, when I spoke to Dr. James Levine, the leading researcher in the marvellous-sounding field of "inactivity studies," at the Mayo Clinic's Scottsdale, Arizona, campus, and the most prominent of walking-desk partisans.
In these dog days, I'm reading Charles Townshend's The Republic: The Fight for Irish Independence, a marvellous and beautifully judged study of that strange war.
Many good psychologists are fine writers – Freud's case studies are marvellous stories.
There's something instantly passive-aggressive about everyone he meets: the troubled and troubling sheriff (Terrence Howard) and nurse Pam (Melissa Leo, channelling Nurse Ratched) and of course the marvellous little tweedy Toby, a study in sinister.
A marvellous ragbag, this wide-ranging study reflects on AE Housman's morning shave, the improved brain power of mice, a digression on life in the womb, and several sidelights on Mallarmé.
His greatest painter, Ustad Mansur, made minute studies of this marvellous creature, each as beautiful as any European image of a unicorn.The Great Mughal's excitement at a novelty from abroad can seem like a thing of magic itself, from today's vantage.
"I have a marvellous squad, it is a situation to be studied.
