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Dark Noise
… are dream’s jazz. You’ve never heard this stuff?  Well, also popular last week we had an older groom  the night … after all day at the pool,  her tenderness in restive competition with a husband  who has slept beside a wife for … can call it that, leaves very little secret. A rhythm  steadier, smoother, humbler than waves: inhalations  the size of …
Militarism Marches On
… a Profession. By Alfred Vagts. New York: W. W. Norton and Company. $4.75. The most stimulating hypothesis in Dr. … aristocrats tend to become officers and your successful soldiers seep into the aristocracy, that with the passage of … it seeks not merely control of the army and navy but also an identification with the fighting services and with …
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India’s Golden Chance
… photographs of human genitalia, so as to gauge her comfort with the taboo matters of anatomy. Pinki didn’t … was fall, and villagers were bent over golden stalks in paddies punctuated by the slim, white commas of egrets, a pause … youngest brides. For every 100,000 mothers who give birth, 261 die—​more than ten times the US figure. Though it is an …
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Dmitri Nabokov’s Little Con
… Zielinski, Bronislaw, suggests autobiography to HRH, 742; commissioned to prepare index, 748; warns of suppression … Laura have been disappointed. This is okay; if Laura disappoints as a literary work it’s because of the simple fact that the author died well before he could finish and revise it (and revise …
Sheilah and Scottie
… “as much as possible”—quotations which make the always compelling text quite lengthy. Of necessity, these memoirs … during the early chapters of Scottie. Though Intimate Lies also taps Sheilah Graham’s various autobiographies, Mr. … He “was not enthusiastic” at first, but, then, after she died in 1988, he realized his mother “was the best story I …
The Wound
… I rouged my face swearing on my reflection to never die my children watching alert to grief’s common odor rising from laundry frothing in the hall from …
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