The anonymous Mr Spectator, Ms Field writes, declared that his aim was to take knowledge from where it was "bound up in books" to where it could "dwell in clubs and assemblies, at tea-tables and coffee houses".
But the press releases had already been written, declaring, in boldface type, that the two episodes covered "the most riveting, fateful period in New York's history".
"The bulk of mankind," he wrote, "declare that a prairie with corn growing on it, and a log house or two with a corrugated iron roof, is a more pleasing sight than the same prairie with a herd of wild horses on it, and the beaver swimming in every creek".
Wilson, Freud wrote, "repeatedly declared that mere facts had no significance for him".
Some men who wrote declared, a bit smugly, that couples struggling with the fact that the wife made more money should look elsewhere for the root of their marital problems.
Two days later, Umberto Eco, also writing in La Repubblica, declared that Grillo's campaign signalled "an (incipient) illness of the body politic".
He has been an outspoken critic not just of industrialized farming but of industrialized writing, once declaring that writing on a computer instead of his old Royal typewriter would make his work dependent on strip-mined coal.
In a written statement he declared that "Catholics do not need the support of civil law to be faithful to their own religious convictions and they do not seek to impose by law their moral views on others of society".
Never mind that Pol Pot (who was raised in the royal palace in Phnom Penh before being sent to school in Paris, where he became a Communist) called for regicide in his first published writing, declaring in 1952 that the monarchy was "a running sore that just people must eliminate".
The leadership of the Fifth Avenue temple had remained silent since the arrest of Cantor Nevison on Wednesday, except for a brief written statement declaring that he was innocent until proven guilty and saying that the cantor had brought up the "issue" previously but that the leadership had "found nothing untoward".
