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… a sufficient achievement. Melvin Kranzberg, however, accomplished much more. By the time of his death at the age of … professional historians, particularly the distinguished medievalist Lynn White, Jr., were de facto historians of … A Political and Social History . Little in the book deals directly with technology, and the term itself is never …

… my Hemingway was going through the press—the editor seemed comatose, the lawyer constantly broke his word and delayed … letters stated that Lady Cynthia Asquith’s son Michael had died in 1960. But I had a hunch he might still be alive and … Lawrence and died in a mental institution at the age of 26. This information enabled me to show that in “The …

… of hope, discouragement, and liberation, his childhood becomes the text which he earnestly studies for clues to who he is and what he should do and how he … carries the day; he wins the story hands down. Joan gets no points in the reader’s heart, despite the fact that she is …

… when he set down, casting off reticence with an uncommon boldness for him, a reminiscence of Enfield, where, … voluptuous monster, “into which the soul with all its maladies had passed;” and his predilection was for the sensuous … soul has associated its interests, can have, as Pater points out, “no real claim upon us.” The address of this …

… exploits, my hero-worship of him that verged always uncomfortably close to idolization, and thus inevitably tinged … moment of his life confined in plexiglass. A boy who would die unless ingenious doctors and machines kept him separate … my father’s voice performed down there in the South as unselfconsciously as birds sing or birds shit, Daddy, I heard you …