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… Reprint, Spring 1997 Transaction has come out with a 30th anniversary edition of a book hailed … the course of our history, people who qualify in Steward Alsop’s phrase as “people’s dukes,” the dukes being the … Life of General Nathaniel Lyon, the first Union general to die in the Civil War [$12.95]. POETRY Everyman’s Library …

… We went mad! The Member raised his hand for silence. “Ladies and Gentlemen,” he said. “I thank you. I would rather … required to make decisions at one of the supreme turning points of history; and their leader was the verbose, … bickering, culminating in the General Strike of 1926. It was an event of portentous significance. It might …

… of the mill were houses for the sawyer and two mill officials; to the west, houses for the mill’s bookkeeper, the commissary manager, and the filer, her father. Papa, she … sets of Scott, Hugo, and Dickens, and The Princess and Curdie , on the front of which was a picture of the princess in …

… to its stage worthiness. Its recordings have tended to compensate for these limitations, and in Riccardo Chailly’s … the Soviet conductor who defected to the West in 1978, died earlier this year in his adopted Amsterdam, where he … of three Debussy works in a new collection (DG 2531 264). La Mer is the least successful—too detached, too …

… or other monsters of wind touching down and scooping up animals and precious clay and barns, anything that wasn’t nailed … to last, even if the buildings couldn’t be budged with a locomotive. Pewter and gray; polished potbelly; base of an old … mile of mesquite. All of it continues and persists and then dies. This in a color-starved part of the world. Maybe …