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… the state named in its title. But its release on June 26, 1934 was greeted with a critical acclaim and commercial success that stunned the author, the publishers, … smooth steps. “He was a very attractive man and quite a ladies’ man,” recalls Robert Harwood, a student of Carmer’s …

… a hairpin in her mouth and a lock of hair lifted in her comb. “You know.” She had just plucked the hairpin from her … up these lampposts. Ice on the windshields, salt crystals and slush in the streets,” he said. “Not to mention … be talking about a funeral. A famous jazz clarinetist had died. The accents were heavy. The man and woman listened to …

… their current attractiveness from…isolating people from competing value systems,” Marty continues, while cults and … to recruit new members, cliques number only a few individuals and are closed to outsiders. Think of the table of … we’re willing to set aside our internal differences and die to preserve what we imagine is ours.  clique party sect …

… Life of W. B. Yeats. By Joseph Hone. The Macmillan Company. $6.00. In the Andersen fairy tale illusion alone … ideas; of his literary and political fights and feuds and accomplishments, positive and negative; of his preoccupation … his poems after they had been published, and Mr. Hone points out enough of the variant lines to make a convincing …

… Thomas Frank’s exegesis (which I enthusiastically recommend) of Doris Kearns Goodwin’s  Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln in February’s … Years & The War Years (though its antiquity may be incomprehensible to the current generation); David Herbert …