European governments moved this weekend to soften the blow of soaring costs and a deepening energy crisis triggered by the war in Ukraine, and scrambled to prepare for the possibility of social unrest as the days grow colder.

Just as we were beginning to feel comfortable about living in the space age, bold headlines in an I.B.M. advertisement told us “there's growing agreement that” we now are in the information age.

At one moment he gave himself up completely to his pride at having captured this pretty, trustful, dewy-eyed thing!

For he ne wonneth in one certaine stead, / But restlesse walketh all the world around[…].