MICHELANGELO and Raphael, who worked in the sixteenth century, are regarded by Italians as "moderns." That is a measure of the age of their country. Italy is a young nation inhabited by an ancient people. Collectively they remember the [...]
The spartan interior of a U.S. Air Force C-130 has uncomfortable web seating. Our gear is strapped to a pallet in the aft section, where clamshell doors yawn open until we accelerate down the runway. This airplane is all business—bare fuselage walls and exposed bulkheads, longerons, and stringers.
A few words are in order about this essay's title. It is pilfered from that great American man of letters, Edmund Wilson, who used it for his collection of American writing, The Shock of Recognition.
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