The idealized small town is gone, replaced by the dual human urges to separate ourselves from the Other and, at the same time, expect all the comforts of a pasha.
Inglis is good, too, on Hoggart's urge to separate cultural wheat from chaff, his insistence that the cultural choices we make define the type of people we are and, ultimately, help us to live "better" lives.
It was the excuse he needed to withdraw from public performances, and his recording studio, like Proust's bedroom, became a refuge, "a technological cocoon that finally satisfied his urge to separate himself physically from his public".
The urge to separate pedestrians from traffic was nothing new: the construction of Holborn Viaduct, Rosebery Avenue and Clerkenwell Road in the 19th century were all attempts to sweep people up above the noise and grime down below.
This last point should be noted by lawmakers, as the urge to separate these two offices gains traction.
Last week, Dr. James T. Breeden, the president of the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, publicly urged patients "to separate the marketing hype from the reality" when considering a surgical method for hysterectomy.
After photos from a 2009 magazine shoot resurfaced this year showing Barr dressed as Adolf Hitler, Bruce Helford, co-showrunner of "Roseanne," urged viewers to separate Barr's personal life from her character.
William Press, a computer scientist and computational biologist at the University of Texas at Austin (and a former AAAS president), urged scientists to separate facts and value judgments, in order to gain the trust of a public that is skeptical about science.
Mr. Costelloe said that a potential buyer had proposed a single offer for the combination, but that to simplify matters and because he and Ms. Greenberg are working with the owners separately, the buyer had been urged to make a separate offer to each seller.
That is why the Christian Socialist Movement has supported an early day motion (EDM) yesterday urging government to separate "casino" banks from retail banks.
