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… Community and World Order   As World War II drew to a close, … by statesmen who thought it impolitic openly to reject ideals that seemed to command the passion­ ate allegiance of … the Greek polis was a community, and Rousseau’s Geneva. A medieval manor, a Jewish ghetto, the miners in a Welsh pit, an …

… or smell gumbo simmering on the stove, a flood of memories comes to me. In 1953 when I traveled in the rural South with … their altars to walk the streets with strangers; when soldiers with guns were assigned to keep the peace or to … places, violence in others. People were hurt and people died. Students and civil rights workers were hosed, beaten, …

… of the Novel, or Failure of the Novel, or the Shrinking Audience for the Novel, or—conversely but not … is being made for the very first time and is Big News—is coming, and we should be ready for it, and be ready to … over-the-top scene to the next. The way Sherman speaks points not to a failure of language, but to a failure …

… all over Dracula . Mina is drained of her blood, then made complicit in the feast: His right hand gripped her by the … Maria in the mountains confesses her rape to an American soldier—​ things were done to me I fought until I could not see … can be symptom as much as cure; everything ultimately points back to pain—​even and especially these clutches at …

…   The following post by Deni Béchard is part of our online companion to our Winter 2013 issue on Classic Hollywood. … recall war scenes, confusion, him shooting a fellow soldier and later shot in a field, but from there everything is … looking for the fairy tale, the love story, the good soldier who will become a hero, only to become an entirely …