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Samuel M. Simon writes in his column (“Solomon’s Other Song,” Dec. 12), “As most everybody knows, the people who fight America’s wars tend to come from America’s most disadvantaged groups.?...
Compared to the aristocratic homes of other U.S. founding fathers, Benjamin Franklin's house at 36 Craven Street in London is downright modest. George Washington inhabited a grand estate at Mount Vernon, Virginia, and Thomas Jefferson built Monticello, an elegant mansion, in the same state. But for 15 years, Franklin...
A charismatic man is seized by some magnificent idea or ideal, and his pursuit often drives himself toward madness and those around him near despair. That is the grand theme that Herzog has examined, and embodied, for more than three decades, in fiction films like Aguirre, the Wrath of God...
Time was not kind to the house: it took eight years to repair damage caused by neglect, a fire, shifting foundations and a hole in the roof left by an unexploded World War II German bomb. Today, the structure bears a Grade I listing, Britain's highest designation for historic...
"'My mind is constantly wandering off,' he says. 'If they ever want to evolve a way of picking out the prospective novelists among children, this would be the aspect to go for, this drifting off' ... After attending [an English public] school, Fowles served in the British marines, which he hated...