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Civil War could be converted into art when seen from afar, through a cultural lens, by a noncombatant. It was paintable, as the raw material of American social realism...
...throw them he will, if often from afar. "There will be phone calls from wherever he is," says Backe. The new chief executive, who is 44, seems a perfect choice for tandem harness with Paley. Brash Arthur Taylor had a homing instinct for the limelight; he could not be trusted to refrain from redecorating Paley's castle. But Backe is unassuming, efficient, extremely bright and content to be an inner-sanctum manager. "It isn't a matter of my letting Bill influence me," says he. "I do take his advice and we agree on most things." Backe cannot...
...work. For once Renior lets us unabashedly sympathize with his protagonist, a dreamy, doe-eyed printer who stays up nights writing hack Westerns. The corrupt, sybaritic publishing boss closes his eyes to the printer's serial, "The Arizona Kid," and monopolizes the woman who the poor dreamer worships from afar. But Renoir slips a little social message into the revenge against this meany; the printer and his fellow workers triumph by taking over and collectivizing the printing shop, bringing the "Arizona" serial to predictible fame and fortune. The story ends sadly, but with all the unsentimental humanity that ennobled almost...
...pages of Souvenirs and Prophecies, a commingling of diaries, early writings and annotations by Stevens' daughter Holly. Here is the Harvard undergraduate, scribbling doggerel fit for a greeting card: "Long lines of coral light/ And evening star,/ One shade that leads the night/ On from afar...
...past 14 years Military Historian John Keegan, 42, has been lecturing on battles to young British officer cadets at Sandhurst. Along the way, a thought struck him: "I have not been in a battle; not near one, nor heard one from afar, nor seen the aftermath." Sensibly, he did not try to make up for this gap in his experience by seeking out a battle and joining up. But he also found the massive literature on warfare oddly bloodless...