… decline of the femme fatale among twentysomethings has become apparent, not least in the cinematic realm. No new Ava … of the era—the land of elite that has now virtually died out. BB was born and had her earliest memories on the … around October 1; so she invariably received notebooks, briefcases, and other scholastic items as presents. Ironically, …
Criticism
… sense of betrayal, bounds demolished, moral or social compacts violated. Reprieve from disgrace is also a public phenomenon, something a certain kind of … hysteria an incomprehensible LeRoy inspired in an Italian audience (“It was perfect ”) and giddy recounting the moment …
… of Potomac Punditry I’ve Seen the Best of It. By Joseph W. Alsop. Norton. $29. 95. Deadline. By James Reston. Random … their memoirs within months of one another. Joseph W. Alsop died of lung cancer on Aug. 28, 1989, at the age of 78; at … Alsop, it was entirely legitimate for the journalist to become the advocate. Significantly, James Reston, whom some …
… in the rich woods where it normally grows. It is a common herb at low and middle altitudes where it flowers … late summer or autumn.” The spadix, or Jack, is sometimes also called the Preacher because, at least to the eye of … anyone else in the family except me. Perhaps it was the combination of growing up in Washington and then moving to …
… out for an airing, my father assured her. When the time comes. Suffer the little children. They never had to, and … well and truly gone in Christian charity. How his sad ladies, who came to him to assuage their outraged souls, could … for it. You find me at 20 still going to Firemen’s Carnivals for my summertime recreation. Sometimes with Mary Ella, …
… for vindication, the writer of contemporary history has also become a participant in his own historical narrative. One … of Malcolm Cowley. Neither in narrating Chambers’ anti-Communist activities of 1940 nor in reporting Cowley’s …