Their most obvious value is the precious view they provide of Churchill, and of Britain’s hair-raisingly improvised struggle in the first years of World War II But Colville himself starts out with primogeniture His doing so is perhaps the key to this illuminating book As much as anything, it is the Education of John Colville. [...]
Its plot, simple to the point of parody, concerns the catastrophic effects of the glamorous conjurer Zuleika Dobson on the male undergraduates, who, inspired by the example of their most distinguished classmate, the Duke of Dorset, resolve to commit mass suicide on account of their unrequited love for the lady. The hilariously high-flown dialogues between [...]
Everyone knows that Malan and his right-wing Nationalists won the argument and in 1948 were projected into power. Only her mother’s dearest friend, a woman who has renounced the Mennonites and lives in France, can help; she writes to Dovie, and between them, they collaborate to preserve the memory of the woman they both [...]
You have to believe this guy was larger than life-probably still is-and must have driven his partner slightly crazy. It was the middle of the Great Depression. The Hasidic rabbi forbade the marriage: Kafka was not an observant Jew. Forthcoming titles, to be published every two months or so, include Erich Maria Remarque’s [...]
The words are largely Kafka’s own, Glatzer having assembled a kind of scrapbook from the writer’s extraordinary diaries and letters, only supplementing it with information from the biography by Kafka’s friend Max Brod The result is a moving and, for me, a strangely happy story. But Eileen knows better: She hasn’t the maternal temperament, [...]
“He’ll be black because that’s how waiters on trains to Banff are; it’s the decision of the railroad to conduct its business that way” And with the same bland edge, she affirms the whiteness of the linen, the gorgeous scenery, the splendid dinner they are about to have. While these authors come from widely [...]
While these authors come from widely different political and intellectual viewpoints, I would argue that their theses are more complementary than contradictory. Their concerns about these issues get in the way of their stated intent of giving readers an inside view of how large corporations work In looking at U. S. Wexford gradually [...]
(Elson, it is also clear, had the additional advantage of being able to write in the past tense by anywhere from 40 years to a decade at least. The first volume is a trilogy, which will run into the present day. Such observations do not necessarily invalidate the authors’ political argument, but they [...]
Its teachers serve the Lord 90 hours a week on a seven-day schedule that includes compulsory attendance at all church services by contract as well as personal conviction In 1980′81 they earned a base salary of $5,900. It was an age of magazine journalism as well as newspaper journalism, and it was a natural [...]
Anderson is pulling an old rhetorical trick here, luring in unsuspecting and uncoverted readers through empathy and then impressing them with the logic of liberal reforms. The female of some species of firefly, for example, lures the male of other species with a simulated species code and, when the lured male nears the deceptive [...]