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Main source of this confusion, says Chase, comes from the "semantic illiteracy" of using such words as though they had an actual point of reference in the physical world, whereas in fact they are in the same category as the "souls" which savages give to trees, rivers and the like...
Underlying purpose of Cleopatra's maneuvers, avers Ludwig, was to preserve her honor as patriot, mother, loving wife. In order to make this point, he rejects the orthodox version: that she made a deal with Octavian to assassinate Antony, tricked him into suicide, committed suicide herself only when her...
With his Pulitzer-Prizewinning biography of Sam Houston (The Raven) and the first volume of a biography on Andrew Jackson (Andrew Jackson: The Border Captain), Marquis James has made a name for himself as one of the few conscientious U. S. historians whose books give the historical novelists a run...
To begin with, avers Author Brown, there is too much muddled sentimentalizing about society's responsibility for the insane. Most patients are the victims of their own ''damn foolishness." Business men (the largest group) at Bloomingdale were there because they were "hogs"' who cracked up trying...
''I love acting, and it is only during the last few years that I have become good, although, as yet, limited in scope." What he thinks of himself as a writer he modestly leaves between the lines. He avers that Cavalcade, his most successful play, was written "straight...