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… the air in handsprings, sprint down a track, and dodge oncoming players in rugby, my muscles had begun to atrophy by … able to do a sit-up for decades, since the year my mother died, one year before I’d gotten pregnant. That was twenty … an Adirondacks cabin, a swimming pool, and residences for 260 men. The new lap pool at the Y opened in 2014. The …
… for many listeners, minimalism’s critical acclaim and commercial success have earned it the right to be taken … attractive new collection is called Glassworks (CBS FM-37265), in which his usual grouping of seven players has been … though we’ve always been partial to its affectionate melodies. Neumann again leads the Czech Philharmonic (Supraphon …
… Northwest in the early summer of 1938, he was impelled by a combination of strong motives. He had just delivered to his … he had pneumonia, from the complications of which he was to die in Johns Hopkins Hospital within nine weeks. There in … that sad September fifteenth, a few hours after Wolfe had died, I sat in the hospital talking with the members of his …
… generation in China. Up to now the Chinese have lived and died well embedded in their tradition. It was a powerful … Malay Peninsula, and Trincomalee in Ceylon into valuable points d’appui. And while no full-fledged English … only at the last moment not to involve Japan. And in 1926, at what is now called the Manchukuan border, there began …
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… American Family’s Curious Bond With Russia It may sound incomprehensible— senseless , Constance Garnett would have put … or on the history of the Soviet Union. And though I studied Russian in college, just so I would know what my … beef, and dill, which my mother, stylish in strappy sandals and a silk wrap dress after a day at the office, would …