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… gray shawl that my grandmother wore after her husband Harry died and she moved to L.A. from New York. My mother was a … “Be careful.” “What?” “You could fall.” “When is the driver coming?” she asks. “In a little while.” “I used to swim like … I’m standing behind a blond wood podium in front of and audience of 350 adolescents. I’m giving a talk. It seems as if …
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… Russo has devised a novel plan to raise money for the Community School in his hometown of Camden, Maine. It seems … novel. What Russo does with that name, the Village Soup website reports, “depends on the name,” though the author … 236-3000, e-mail cschool@cschool.acadia.net , or visit thecommunityschool.org . By Ted Genoways …
… Saroyan, and James Thur-ber. Houghton Mifflin $2.75 WAR fc? PEACE A Study of War, by Quincy Wright. Mr. Wright has … to understand or agree with it. Ferrero’s historical studies have covered widely divergent periods. As a young man … and Georges Lemaitre are represented. As Nr. Le-maitre points out in his Foreword to the book, this, better than …
… insecurity and is at the same time its origin. Tariff competition is replacing competition in armaments, and is in … freedom of the seas and on respect for the rights of neutrals. The sanctions, purely preventive in the first instance, … pact. But this arrangement seems insufficient from two points of view. In the first place its terms are not clear …