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Hemenway's crowd was hushed during each rally, then would explode after the point had been decided. Robie and Fish thrusted and parried on interminable points, bending but not breaking.
Biographer Kaplan marks these travels not with a chronological posting of names and facts but with an imaginative and supplely written account that keeps bending back toward Leaves of Grass. This was the course of Whitman's own life. Youth and young manhood fed the first edition in 1855...
As a staff writer for The New Yorker, McPhee has straddled two worlds in scores of articles and more than a dozen books. Best known for his non-fiction study of Alaska, Coming into the Country, McPhee has also tangled with long, discursive pieces about the higher levels of tennis...
In a colorful 341-page book, Roots of Consciousness, Author Jeffrey Mishlove comes across as a true believer in the mysterious mental powers of parapsychology -mental telepathy, clairvoyance and psychokinesis. As Mishlove would have it, things like bending spoons through the pure power of the mind "are rooted in the...
The cancellations proved a boon for ordinary Soviets, who got the unused tickets. They were as boisterous as old Brooklyn Dodger fans, though relying on ear-splitting whistles instead of clanging cowbells. Countrymen were cheered lustily, as long as they were winning, and foreign rivals were jeered, with gusto. The...