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… in the past fifteen hundred years, economics had made no comparable progress; and he attributed it chiefly to a … of economists with the practical problems of individuals, in the hope that a new approach may prove useful. I … out of existence. Farm organizations will ask for subsidies; inefficient producers will seek embargoes on the …

… exasperating. Until recently, he hasn’t had much of an audience outside of Europe. But thanks to New Directions, … we’ve been graced with Krasznahorkai’s four taxing, darkly comic novels: Satantango , War & War , The Melancholy of … In his introduction to Krúdy’s Sunflower , John Lukacs points to “the loneliness of the Hungarian language” as one …

… Vietnam, but the bitter wartime debate, except for a deeply committed minority, would not outlast the termination of the … protect its favored international position from future rivals. Triumphalists William Kristol and Robert Kagan took up … reluctance to accept casualties: “How can you have soldiers who are ready to kill, who are not ready to die?” …

… relatives. After dinner. I’ve eaten so much I know I’ll die. No lamps turned up yet. Cream-colored roses float the … lonely, evil and innocent in the spruce camp he’d let you  come— calling “Owl!” “His name’s Al—A-L,” my mother says … haired lightly— rubs the wire. What have they come for, since they won’t be petted, won’t take grass? 3 …

… items (DG 2530 879). The wistful Printemps , one of the composer’s earliest of numerous depictions of the season, … Foote and Mrs. H. H. A. Beech found on New World disc NW 268. Chopin and Brahms are the obvious influences here, … and had just completed a work based on Native American melodies. All this in a period of but 13 years. While death is …