… Avrich has written his book in terms of strong individuals asserting their autonomy at a time when lawless … transformations through which the technological age of the coming century was being shaped, gave rise to trade unionism … after the event. Revolutions need martyrs, and the hanged died with ringing words on their lips. The workers’ dawn has …
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… Pat Robertson. (Roslan’s PR firm Dera, Roslan, & Campion also represents Alice Cooper and the Institute for Human … Mr. Robertson personally to rebut the article. I have welcomed that rebuttal and offered to feature it prominently on our website. The ball is now in Mr. Robertson’s court. While …
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… just thinking about Calista and iron. Some years ago she commissioned a piece by a young sculptor—an artist whose … that it was the power: the sheer power in those bodies flying past. And I love that about Garry: his unabashed … cannot say I mind it so much. I am grateful for him. And I also don’t mind being left again, to a spanakopita, say, or …
… New Rivals for Jefferson The Two Franklins: Fathers of American … Democracy. By Bernard Fay. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $3.50. Honest John Adams. By Gilbert Chinard. Boston; Little, Brown and Company. $3.75. In the great stream of history, the annals … New Rivals for Jefferson …
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… Jacuzzi-sized pool. Mrs. Sussman owned the mikvah and was also my attendant, although recently Penina, a shiny-faced … affect a desire to get pregnant in order to be allowed to come to her mikvah, which was small, word-of-mouth only. … to discern from her last look whether my performance had come off or not. Someone who didn’t know better might have …
… Wright made himself something of an anomaly in the black community as a consequence. He championed the cause of black … invectives on Mencken, stand as Exhibit A. The year was 1926, and the Harlem Renaissance was in full flower. What … Crouch’s ruminations on Michael Jackson, films such as Eddie Murphy’s version of The Nutty Professor , or …