… by the Great War, but essentially, because of certain commitments which continued in force, the Triple Entente … Ifni, Rio de Oro, and Spanish Guinea have all become focal points of Nazi activity and potential bases from which Axis … so would the necessity. This brings us to the portals of Utopia. Yet it is not too much to hope that at least …
… Co. $3.00. Musical scholarship in this country is gradually coming of age. No more tangible evidence can be found than … in their respective fields. There have been innumerable studies, many of them excellent, of the music of primitive man, … details, particularly of Greek music, and there are some points which one would like to have explained, or at least …
Criticism
… was being portrayed in the press as a vision of soldierly virtue , Petraeus’s Protégé, the Man Who Never … more damaging profile than what appeared on Rolling Stone’s website on Tuesday and you have to wonder if the old man … One of the units under McChrystal’s command, Task Force 6-26 was credited with killing the Iraqi insurgent leader Abu …
… dissensus, and anxiety pervade our consideration of the complex issues surrounding nuclear deterrence. Disagreements … In his 1946 book, The Absolute Weapon , Bernard Brodie argued for the notion of a nuclear revolution: “Thus far … weapons, can be morally sanctioned. But they divide on two points: first on the moral status of the threat embodied in …
Fiction
… attack, but for years afterward she asked for it. There was also a house of cards (the two of them on the floor like … Artie’s always been musical. Hum a tune to him and out it comes on the keyboard, no sheet music or nothing. But Evy … without interest. I thought of Ben, how he had the store—kiddie clothes—going fine in Schenectady until he got in the …
Essays
… anachronistic way when Beck, a darling of literary indie-rock aficionados, released Song Reader , an album in the … by McSweeney’s and was supplemented with a crowd-sourced website, where fans uploaded their own interpretations of … Reader became a favorite of the staffs at NPR, NewYorker.com, and Kurt Andersen’s Studio 360, where the host and a …