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… have revered; German art I have loved. It is an unspeakable comfort to me that Thomas Mann should be with us: I am not … We are tempted to confuse three orders of phenomena: ideals and principles, the sorry game of opportunistic … on a great rearmament program under the direction of Daladier, whose patriotism seemed beyond cavil. Leon Blum …

… We got to know each other and became friends in the way I become friends with people I use for information; constant … The father thanked him. He said, I’m lucky my son died in my house. If he had been outside in my field and … a few feet behind them, like shadows. We weave through checkpoints made of yellow- and black-striped concrete blocks …

… in full: On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were … of the story. We are told what happened to the six principals before opening the book or reading a page. But we knew … the arrival of In Cold Blood, the huge majority of the audience that made the book a bestseller, were at once invited …

… the very opening of the novel. The “younger” and “older” soldiers with whom the book begins, Duval and Langlois, recall … He undergoes his baptism of fire in the name of a compulsive manhood that is an almost embarrassing echo … road was the place where he had ceased to be a boy. Cobb also practices the technique of ironic contrast found in …

… city our conference went on in the green din of post-Soviet comfort where every third channel was porn and the arguments … about ethnic cleansing were spliced by the disco-falsetto of the Bee Gees and through the giant windows we … by the green shade, and even though Euclid said any two points can be joined by a straight line, what does that make …