Publishers may have been wary of the enumeration of the phobias, some transient and some lifelong, that Wollheim suffered from.

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It may well be, Mr Wollheim says, that you cannot lay down in advance what art must or must not look like.

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Wollheim was subject to a laxative regimen and eating and bedtime rituals.

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Wollheim describes her extraordinary system of cleaning the house room by room daily, moving all the furniture to the center of the room, then dusting, sweeping and vacuuming.

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Ms. da Fonseca-Wollheim writes about classical music for the Journal.

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Undaunted, Ayer turned UCL into one of the liveliest centres of English-language philosophy, hiring men who later became public intellectuals, including Sir Stuart Hampshire, Richard Wollheim and Sir Bernard Williams.

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In the memoir, Wollheim captures in sensuous detail the textures of an upper middle-class childhood in Surrey, near London, in the 1930s, with the usual features: chauffeurs, nannies, seaside vacations (with the nanny), coin collecting, corporal punishment at school.

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