… law, are indispensable for all republics; they should be common to them all; and it is safe to forecast that where … therefore, on learning how to apply our growing wealth to goals more lofty than mere private satisfaction. Man’s ideas … our labors unavailing, the failure of half a million soldiers with nearly a million allies . . .to defeat a few …
… published in 1982 [$24.95]. Richard J.Carwardine’s Evangelicals and Politics in Antebellum America was first published … Past explores popular interpretations of America’s bloodiest conflict during the 20th century, including treatment … Tales From a Child of the Enemy, a memoir of a young German coming to maturity after World War II and learning about the …
… By Kenneth Clark. Harper & Row. $13.50. Kenneth Clark, who died in May, had gathered together eleven essays and … society. Although several of these essays indicate his discomfort with 20th-century art, “so hermetic, so removed from … Pater, like Burckhardt before him and Huizinga afterward, points to the ludic character of Renaissance culture. …
… Looks At the 80’s At the start of a new decade it has become traditional for assorted “prophets” to emerge from the … again by Administration spokesmen, and the alternative expedient of adopting price-wage controls was vehemently … suggest. In his Wall Street Journal column of Nov. 26, 1979, “The Worst Is Yet to Come,” Kristol argues that …
Essays
… had were not in the book.” In Germany, all but two of his company got blown to pieces because a lieutenant made a … had won the war. Thousands and thousands of men my age had died. There was a lot of gratitude for that enormous … merely sensitive— I hope this explains some of the unclear points; I must stop now, it is too late; but please write …
Fiction
… and everything, warning signs, those rail things that come down—” “Crossing gates?” “Yeah, crossing gates, but … of only children. Grady’s parents quit after him; my mother died after having me. No one since Dick, our grandfather, … troubled. Half-recalled dreams cut through at intervals, images of oil and sludge, bodies of goldfish half-sunk …