… Gershwin’s An American in Paris, the first recording of the composer’s duo-piano version (Angel). The liner notes relate … works. It’s indicative of the sisters’ admiration for the composer that they played a role in ensuring the score’s … in the hands of French master musicians Philip Catherine, Didier Lockwood, and Christian Escoude. Bridging jazz and …
… Chased Down the World’s Most Notorious Nazi, by Neal Bascomb. Houghton Mifflin, March 2009. $26 At the end of the Second World War, Adolf Eichmann … Aires. Throughout his trial, Eichmann averred that obedience to orders exculpated him. His rambling expositions, …
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… I had that published, I got that published.” As if at his command, as if he’d flung the manuscript to New York with … paper of its cover and the bright paper of my shelves of complete runs of Astounding and Amazing, the way my dreams … from the jars of pills. Incredibly enough the store also houses a spinner rack for paperbacks—old-style, too, …
… to start work in 10 days. First, he had his vacation time coming. We went into the office. Felix stood waiting, a thin … built to house teachers and mid-level government officials. I lived on the fifth floor. The living room was large … a string of mud-brick houses, but the conversation always died out. At the Sanaga River, the traffic was backed up …
… By John Holla-day Latane. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company. $4.00. PROFESSOR LATANE’S qualifications are well … foreign policy written by a scholar who has for years studied the facts in all the available source material. The … of national policy. Nevertheless, as Professor Latane points out, there are some very definite aims in American …
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… counselor. Sometimes his all-purpose utterances were comforting and other times they made Kate want to kick him. … mother had improved markedly after Megan was born. She had died of a brain tumor in the summer following Megan’s high … an oddly bouncy ring, reminding her of television commercials for cleaning products that portrayed drudgery as …