… approaches strictly contemporary history, the “archive” becomes for all practical purposes inexhaustible and literally … from the episodic, or the parabola of change from the datapoints scattered on the grid of historical interpretation … Most of the émigrés discussed in “The Sea Change” have died within the last decade, but almost every reader of the …
Essays
… into this fall when you leave for college, and with two buddies, Jimmy and Carl, you head west on the highway to that … the light until he saw among a network of smaller nail-points the larger nail, and then I saw it too, and I was … we began the task of clearing a space large enough to accommodate the furnace. I had no idea how large this space …
… Power.” New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. $4.00. America Comes of Age. By Andre Siegfried. New York: Harcourt, Brace … and with constant comparisons between their respective viewpoints. Here, however, we must be satisfied with a brief … main trouble with the book, however, is that its author deals too much with superficial appearances, and too little …
… have felt more secure on the assumption that we were neutrals because it declares that we are. But a French … involvement is slight, and classes this country as a non-combatant belligerent. While one may disagree with the … as saying that modern war embraces “everyone from the soldier in the most forward lines to the humblest citizen in …
… Best 200 Words I Read All Week. From fact to fiction, from comedic to tragic, we hope you find as much to admire in … for him with the Machine as a whole. Persecution — that also was present. It did not break out, for reasons that … face for different reasons, but drinking had made all our bodies vulnerable. We weren’t there to assume or insist on …
… career as diplomat, policy-maker, and historian. In 1926 he joined the Foreign Service and was assigned to various … for flattery. These motivations enter at a thousand points into the final product of any political effort.” In … in making Machiavellian determinations about expediency. Walsh warned that such an ethic was appropriate for …