… Theodore Roosevelt spoke a patent truth: “Presidents may come,” he said, “and Presidents may go, but Uncle Remus … herself to identify her man, as it were, by. testimonials from people less important than the man himself. In … Alas, for that generation. It was in 1908 that Harris died. Only six years ahead lay the Great Confusion. But not …
… tree-falls-in-the-forest issue, easily dismissed. He points out the flashy new Millennium 2000 lightboard the … chambered necropolis was discovered below; it had to be studied and assessed by UNESCO and then structurally reinforced … the foreign media ditto. Even the peppy and informative website had vanished. The obelisk, last anyone knew, was …
… of Cities. By Lewis Mumford. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $5.00. Lewis Mumford’s “The Culture of Cities” is … whole. We have had in the recent past a great number of studies dealing with the sociological problem of the city, with … such a regional development, however, is, as Mr. Mumford points out, the establishment of the service state, as …
Memoir
… when she played excerpts of Gregorian chant and the madrigals and motets of Michael Praetorius, John Dowland, Giovanni … many other late-sixteenth- and early-seventeenth-century composers. These works all took root in my growing awareness … best show of my life Tuesday night and all thanks to the audience, a thousand Mennonites and their neighbors in a small …
… Boulevard, and if the inventor of Monroe Stahr hadn’t died in 1940, what prodigies of fiction might yet have come? If Gary Snyder hadn’t met Jack Kerouac in the Berkeley … Muir—and besides, the author of The Mountains of California also founded The Sierra Club. The vast shift of hope and …
… The disappointing son of Marcus Aurelius, the emperor Commodus, no angel himself, is said to have put a man to … decade of his life in seclusion on the island of Capri, died at last at the age of 78, and Gaius Caligula was a … a poor judge: too unpredictable and emotional, but Levick points out that there was a homespun quality to his justice. …