Word: burr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Burr, Vidal (1 last week) 2-Come Nineveh, Come Tyre, Drury (2) 3-I Heard the Owl Call My Name, Craven (10) 4-Postern of Fate, Christie (9) 5-The Honorary Consul, Greene (3) 6-Theophilus North,Wilder (4) 7-The Loo Sanction, Trevanian (8) 8-The Hollow Hills,Stewart (7) 9- The First Deadly Sin, Sanders (6) 10- Tuesday The Rabbi Saw Red, Kemelman...
...Burr, Vidal (1 last week...
...Burr, Vidal (1 last week...
...into a second printing now. The customers would get much more absorbing reading about California if they bought Kevin Starr's book instead. It is better history, for one thing −a long historical essay reflecting on the meaning of the California experience. The Burr senior tutor at Harvard's Eliot House, Starr writes an occasionally musty prose that smells of the stacks. Still, he draws upon a wealth of material, and his research is lively. The best and worst of America wound up in California −drifters, merchants, philosophers and killers. As a kind of cultural terminal...
...Burr, Vidald last week) 2-The Hollow Hills, Stewart...