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The Berlin Wall: A Memoir
… when we arrived in 1957. When we left in 1962, Berlin had become two cities side by side with a Wall in the middle. … women, wearing old-fashioned glasses and carrying old briefcases, all hurrying to class as they came out of the subway … practice to visit their relatives regularly, smuggling “goodies” past the border guards— oranges, real coffee, a …
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The University in a World in Transition
… see his noble handiwork, a university which has served his Commonwealth precisely as he foresaw, giving to his State … are subsequent generations—fully comparable to the cathedrals of the Middle Ages and the art of the Renaissance. … with appreciation of the properties of the new heavenly bodies called quasars and pulsars or of the strange particles …
Drive
… was called for here—something—but he just couldn’t come up with what it was. He wanted to reach out to him, not … teeth and sharp hooks, almost like a facsimile of a medieval instrument of torture. It was a gift from a … of manifold color schemes, scale, proportion, and focal points. Here, too, he railed against vanity. That was the …
Unbearable Memories
… essentially avoided the Holocaust.” After such reassuring recommendations the reader finds, however, that Professor … since 1945, but he did not stop there. He reminded his audience of the “genocide of the Jews . . .unparalleled in … appeared in print. Ben Moore, a British historian, likewise points out, in his recent magisterial work about the fate of …
The Letters of Marian Adams
… 1865-1883. Edited by Ward Thoron. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $5.00. The interest of these letters is triple … and conversations, add up to a personal response, all unselfconscious and candid and prejudiced, to the Washington … is this from a Royal Academy reception, to describe the ladies’ costumes: “fat fugues in pea-green; lean symphonies in …
I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead
… everybody’s gone to bed. You know? There’s that endless commotion and you think, Christ!—too cozy under your own … Finally, he set the hat aside and squared himself to his audience. “Son of the Living God, eternally and mercifully … and hay and paper from the floorboard. I noticed the pinpoints of Orion burning clearly out over Bear Pen Mission, …
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