… shake the foundations of the Republic, it may be a small comfort to remember that Americans of the last century fell … to the same mania. It seems that have-nots have always studied the ways of the haves, with the hope that someday they … not temper the bite of their indictments. This tendency is also apparent in the more prominent biographies of Morgan. …
Essays
… life, which it surely did, and not by inspiring me toward complex thought, but by the opposite process: the complete … who had dabbled in hippiedom and raised me up on a steady diet of Beatles and Stones, a kid who had thrown his lot in … a curb outside the arena, Will still in his dark suit. We also smoked a big, fat blunt. Shit yeah. At one point, a …
Essays
… sophistication of the national palate, the flood of soldiers returning home after the end of World War II had a … reflected in an interview for the NEA’s Operation Homecoming documentary: “If you’re a soldier existing under … Metal Jacket,” and “Apocalypse Now”—the end of the war also saw an outpouring of important work by veteran writers, …
… Coolidge. By Claude M. Feuss. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $4.75. Journal as Ambassador to Great Britain. By … Dewey may well become a significant personality in the annals of the party. Certainly the careers and views of these … illustration of the traditional “Coolidge luck.” Harding died in California on August 2, 1923. In surroundings …
Essays
… it. I fall short as a feminist. I feel like I am not as committed as I need to be, that I am not living up to … (not too slutty, not too prude, show a little leg, ladies), and so on. Good women are charming, polite, and … There seems to be little room for multiple or discordant points of view. Essential feminism has, for example, led to …
Profiles
… Oliver W. Hill Civil rights pioneer Oliver W. Hill Sr. has died in Richmond at 100 years old and will lie in state at … County, Va. , one of the five cases that the Supreme Court combined into Brown v. Board of Education . That case, of course, ended segregation in public schools, but it also opened the door to the Civil Rights Movement—and Hill …