Memoir
… South Indian Food Theresa Seelye (Source Material: @Istock.com/Brytta) Hotel Saravana Bhavan is one of the newer … January at this Saravana Bhavan on Lexington Avenue at 26th Street in New York I enjoyed something of a parental … in South Asian groceries and supplies. But the special ingredient in both, my aunts will all tell you quite firmly, is a …
… slaughter in which more than seven thousand Union soldiers were killed in minutes early on the morning of June 3, … and community leaders in the mix as well. And as Richard points out, kinship ties seemed more important that ideology … The Vehement Passions , by Philip Fisher. Princeton, $26.95 In a field getting more crowded by the year, Fisher …
… law, are indispensable for all republics; they should be common to them all; and it is safe to forecast that where … therefore, on learning how to apply our growing wealth to goals more lofty than mere private satisfaction. Man’s ideas … our labors unavailing, the failure of half a million soldiers with nearly a million allies . . .to defeat a few …
… By Kenneth Clark. Harper & Row. $13.50. Kenneth Clark, who died in May, had gathered together eleven essays and … society. Although several of these essays indicate his discomfort with 20th-century art, “so hermetic, so removed from … Pater, like Burckhardt before him and Huizinga afterward, points to the ludic character of Renaissance culture. …
… attitude; this we may learn from Mr. Krutch, who has studied it in “The Modern Temper.” Modernism is a progressive … is skepticism and disillusionment, and ends in despair. We come to such a degree of self-consciousness that we question … of his mind. He presents his story preferably from the points of view of a succession of interested characters. …
Essays
… changed everything, working their way in under the skin, becoming like kept secrets, affecting our least perception of … the most important ones, which is that feelings change, or die, and that as time goes on we become the reliquaries of … sense of the texture of the past which he will at various points invoke. But the real interest—and power—of the …