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… indispensable role in wartime England as well as his accomplishments serving President Franklin Roosevelt during … to speak. In addition, a separate chapter focuses on Huddie Ledbetter and Woody Guthrie, two of the iconic names of … Parrot & Olivier in America, by Peter Carey. Knopf, $26.95 There is a Rabelaisian adventure in this ambitious, …
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Looking The boy looks into the monitor and wishes it was a real window. So safe, the way it shows the approaching planet. Below him, another boy looks out his window and wishes he could change channels. So sad, the car that just drove away in the rain. …
… Dietz At War TWICE or three times a week Dietz wrote his … in an oblique way. In a letter home he told a long and complicated animal story and assigned the names of the dead … and atmosphere of an asylum, or zoo. He adopted various points of view in his reportage, convinced that each moment …
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… of the mountains outside Tonopah—Mount Butler, Mount Oddie—the subtle complexity of what had seemed, at first, a toasted desert … would map for her if he was awake, which individual shining points of light, grouped together, would make a …
… Things and Ideals Things and Ideals. By M. C. Otto. New York: Henry Holt & … well with philosophy. To be sure, they have never been completely oblivious to the fact that it is the business of … so much to which he can give such cordial assent, minor points of dissent seem hardly to deserve mention. We …
… if we dwelt inland, where the magic of seeing our theater come splashing around a bend in the river was denied us, we … were praised. Like old fashioned American architecture—falsely grand and noisy in the 1850’s—old fashioned American … “Otranto” and “Udolpho.” Alongside of the bad writing that dies soon, come the greater works of the romantic spirit, …