… wedding in town, had she seen Nasrin up close. Gulia had come with Rashid, while Nasrin had arrived on the arm of … to be over. Now that she had become invisible, her past had also started to slip away to another orbit, almost beyond … she’d taken fifteen-year-old Gulia in, when her mother had died and her father remarried. “Your aunt should keep a …
… U. S. A. By John Dos Passos. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $3.00. To Have and Have Not. By Ernest Hemingway. … that it is typical of action occurring at a thousand points between New York and San Francisco. Theirs is … their illusions and natural talents and sense of values die by the wayside. Wallowing in waste and indifference and …
Profiles
… “This hard core of hostility,” a director once said, comparing him to Marlon Brando. That mesmerizing anger. … way, will not be singing “The Banana Boat Song,” and has also decided that he won’t accept commercials. “Oh my god,” … Bogart. There was a Sudanese fighting beside Allied soldiers in the Libyan desert, a black man strangling a Nazi …
… definition that history is mankind thinking about itself becomes increasingly difficult of application as the historian … partook of. But the writer of a college text feels no such false modesty: he will commonly descant on Ghenghis Khan … his spiritual and subjective experience—than all the studies of environment that will ever fill our libraries. We …
Criticism
… William Childress. I asked him to elaborate further on that commentary, to which he sent the following. ––– When Willard … of any form, vers libre can shine—but we’ve had a steady diet of it for way too long. We are, unofficially at least, … agenda-ites seem determined to keep us there. As David Orr points out in Beautiful and Pointless: A Guide to Modern …
… printing, like Gaul, is divided into three parts: design, composition, and presswork. For five hundred years these principal ingredients have stood, defying successive generations to make a … the original sources, notably the inscriptional Roman capitals. Perhaps one may conclude that it is more by accident …