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...lone wit ness was Father George Rapp, founder of the first of two Utopias that flowered and withered in New Harmony early last century. Exploring their brief history. Mar guerite Young has written a sometimes difficult, often fascinating book whose erudite, poetical meandering explores some forgotten corners in the attic of U.S. history...
...Good Man." High on the Allies' blacklist stood the name of notorious Wuppertal Police Chief Paul Kinkier, founding member of the Nazi Party. When U.S. soldiers caught up with him last week in an attic hideout at Nissmitz, he chose to die by taking poison in the best Wagnerian manner-but in a hurry and in a nightshirt. Cried his grief-stricken wife over his body: "My husband was a good man. I just couldn't control him." Then she admitted that her good man had shot twelve people...
...costumes are by Cecil Beaton, who evidently lost his heart but not his wits in somebody's attic. The characters, their plight, their lines, their postures and emo tional attitudes are as exquisitely stylized as classical ballet...
...with the $6,500 the Langs got for Grandma's house, the store was the biggest adventure of their lives. Until this point, Lower than Angels seems only another story of the decline of the lower middle class. But this store makes money. A tan, two-story-and-attic house, with its porch remodeled into a store front, it stood in a village where there were sycamore and elm trees over the streets, a Methodist Church where Marvin got converted in a whirlwind revival campaign, the drugstore where he got his first job. There was a big house owned...
...Most of it appeared originally in the New Yorker. The anthology includes stories from My World and Welcome to It, My Life and Hard Times (his best book, reprinted complete), The Middle-Aged Man on the Flying Trapeze, and drawings from Fables for Our Time, The Owl in the Attic, Men, Women and Dogs, and The War Between Men and Women...