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JAMES MADISON: COMMANDER IN CHIEF (627 pp.)-Irving Brant-Bobbs-Merrill...
...reading your review of Miss Porter's Ship of Fools [July 28], I was struck by a similarity of titles remembered from long gone college days. In checking back, sure enough there was Das Narrenschiff (Ship of Fools, 1494) whose author, Sebastian Brant, died in 1521. It would be interesting to know if this allegory played any part in influencing Miss Porter's ideas...
...sounded a serious note throughout the collegiate musical world by substituting Mendelssohn for Mrs. Casey's Boarding House in the club's repertory, led the troupe on a European tour in 1921 and in 35 concerts with the Boston Symphony; of uremia; in Brant Rock, Mass...
...four-year stretch of school-mastering in the rough-and-tumble outback. Havelock roughed it, but he was a dud as a teacher. As he later reported with clinical detachment in his autobiography, he experienced his first diurnal, involuntary orgasm in Australia (while reading the Dames Galantes of Brant...
...name was not really Helena but Alice. She was Portuguese, living with her parents in the Brazilian diamond-mining town of Diamantina, and she began to keep her record of everyday happenings in 1893, when she was twelve. In 1942, as Senhora Augusto Mario Caldeira Brant of Rio de Janeiro (her husband twice served as president of the Bank of Brazil), she published her diary in a small edition for friends and family. Famed French Novelist Georges Bernanos saw it and proclaimed it a work of genius. By the time-1952-that U.S. Pulitzer-Prizewinning Poet Elizabeth Bishop went...