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Diplomacy
Diplomacy To the other high-rise residents the landlord introduces me as Our Famous Madam Writer. Reminds me to please try the hot tub percolating in a tent atop the roof, the water slimy and lukewarm. Mid-May. Drumming my nails on the balcony railing. …
Notes on Current Books, Winter 1984
… to Adam, hers is an identity capable of equally complete blessedness and self-fulfillment (McColley is not … authors” and a Ph. D.-level bibliography useless to the audience that the volume addresses. Despite such blemishes … the English Novel , by Elizabeth Deeds Ermarth. Princeton $26.50 This book reads like the doctoral dissertation of a …
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Sitting in the Silence
… years since that Los Alamos lunch, this contradiction has become known as Fermi’s Paradox. The lack of contact has … make the apocalypse seem alluring; as the writer Geoff Dyer points out, zombie movies feature a certain idyllic … upright, distinguishable as inhuman only by their small bodies or their pallid, hairless skin. The notion of a Great …
The Green-Room
… distressing and spectacular developments in the textile communities of North Carolina, especially Gastonia and … The study of Madame de Maintenon is one of a series of studies of women that Gamaliel Bradford has been making. “Eve … of Rochester is author of “The Monroe Doctrine, 1823-26.” Herbert Heaton is professor of history in the …
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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Transfigured Night
… also gave us a letter that said one of us had to leave. The company didn’t allow employees to be married; it was a … risk to draw diagrams of military planes while in the audience at a concert hall? Devin never knew when he’d get an … I wanted, the kind that was only possible in stories.  117-126 By Paula Whyman Illustration by Lauren Simkin Berke …
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