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Charles Dickens and the Law
… us as the various qualities of mind and heart which we have come to associate with such memorable characters as David … and lacked the means of paying them. This prison, Marshalsea, figures prominently in Little Dorrit , even as it did … “”Have you concluded your argument?” “”Mlud, no—variety of points—feel it my duty tsubmit— ludship,” is the reply that …
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Translators and Alchemists
… I was given a copy of Paideia, the workbook that formerly accompanied the Scripps National Spelling Bee, and told to … into a projectile brush. Here, as in Brown’s work, a full-bodied practice in an entirely other discipline—dancing, … expression somewhere between a grimace and a jeer as she points a handgun at the viewer. The X suggests her …
The Descent of the Theater
… Stagecraft. By Sheldon Cheney. New York: Longmans Green and Company. $10.00. Poot-lights Across America. By Kenneth … books in any but the most superficial conspectus. The one deals in broad strokes with the history of dramatic art … theater of the golden age is not of long life. Indeed it dies by the very process of coming alive. It is in the …
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Nobody Knows the Stars Like The Star
… The following post by Courtney Watson is part of our online companion to our  Winter 2013 issue on Classic Hollywood. … Luckily, the professor moved on to discussing the finer points of Coriolanus before I had a chance to make any more … had been to the other side of the looking glass. I almost died of envy. Though I’ve known for a long time that much of …
See the Pyramids
… it’s my grandmother again; here’s her heart condition and also ibis, wading ibis. Now my grandmother does her laundry, … here I lie and watch trees that seem stone arteries the bodies have been eroded from, gone to smoke like the passing … her cells. Only when some toy her brain has imagined alive comes at her will she cry, and wake. 503-504 By Ross Taylor …
Notes on Current Books, Winter 1986
… of Unbelief in America , by James Turner. Johns Hopkins $26.50 This stimulating work explores how and why disbelief … what it is trying to be: a chronological series of short studies of the major eras in science, usable either as … of modernism to date. Every reader will dispute some points of emphasis; despite a long (excellent) chapter on …
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