… Studies in American Diplomacy History of American Foreign Relations. By Louis M. Sears. New York: Crowell Company. $3.50. The Recent Foreign Policy of the United … The Johns Hopkins Press. $3.00. The Monroe Doctrine, 1823-1826. By Dexter Perkins. Cambridge: Harvard University …
Criticism
… not narrowly circumscribed by economics. So this is also national history, of the past seven decades, often … scrupulously to avoid partisan party polemics what becomes relentlessly evident is that, on balance, Republicans … Jansson succinctly describes the various expedient New Deal programs. As some of us vividly remember, FDR …
… because it nullifies the palpable diversity of possible points of view, the inconsistencies of science, and the … that we settled on forty years ago is abandoned. The most completely thrown over is gentle Darwin’s survival of the … Barzun notes) and modernity. The imaginary unity of the medieval order consisted in social and personal integration, …
Poetry
… rung of light, a pregnant silence. Isn’t the after always tidier, divisible? I remember it from the floorboards, the … believed you better than my own pain; two-legged God, false prophet— I am a Muslim. Each of your breasts a mosque …
Essays
… of Los Angeles It is useful to start at the end, which is also the beginning: at the far side of an imaginary bridge, … at the 101 freeway’s eight lanes. Mountain lions have died here before, crossing from one sliver of wilderness to … to take down livestock or approach humans. Mountain lions communicate through code: scrapes or scratches on tree bark, …
Criticism
… Thomas’, Der Tod in Venedig , Thomas’ review of Heinrich’s, Die Grosze Sach , and birthday speeches by Thomas and … notes which clarify and enrich the understanding of comments and references made in the letters. Finally there … the development of this split as well as their intimacy; also, Heinrich’s move toward the French and democracy and …