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… a lost weekend, and I started writing it the next afternoon coming back from Washington, where we’d gone with Stevenson … could feel the way she did—that when our president died we had lost a friend. And not only Americans. He was … Kennedy began finally doubting the euphoria of his own generals and advisers. He had seen Indochina in the early 1950’s …
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The Crossover Beard; or, the True Story of Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster (Among Other Things)
… the gate. Suddenly the SOUND of the sirens is heard again, coming towards us. The M.P. pops to attention and salutes as … unsmiling, completely, it seems, without emotion. Obedient, servile, almost like robot men. Yet they are alive. … Karen watches him go, pained and concerned. DISSOLVE 26) INT. LAB DAY A full view of a large scientific space …
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… I had coined: Thus sadness is a literary strategy. I have come to think of [Kevin] Brockmeier’s version, so reliant on … in [ The View from the Seventh Layer ] tend toward a common moral: Life inevitably ends in death, which is … notes on character, point of view, style, and scene. I will also keep a working spreadsheet of all erections. I’m not …
… Tocqueville scholar [$14.95]. Perennial Library has also republished Sydney Blumenthal’s The Rise of the … to Political Power , about which Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. commented, “We have long needed an anatomy of Reaganism as … an informative account of one of the Civil War’s bloodiest battles [$8.95]. Pantheon has a paper edition of …
… Edited by Frances Mason. New York: The Mac-millan Company. $5.00. American Inquisitors. By Walter Lippmann. … of religion against the unprovoked attacks of “science falsely so-called”; if you are an evolutionist, the forces of … faint indications that the writers would not agree on all points, but there is obviously a well-bred intention to …
… do it that way, a process that follows full circle from the comic to the tragic. What first strikes one about writing in … qualified, with cautious provisos for every contingency. It also safely sticks to the general and the abstract, shunning … jargon precisely because it is unnecessary, because it embodies nothing new. This language is like the emperor’s new …