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Her topic was sexism in politics, and it was appropriate for the audience that had invited her to speak on the subject: the Women's Forum, a group of New York City's most influential women in business and politics. United Nations Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick claimed that "sexism...
O'Donnell returned to teaching the subject seven years ago, after raising six children. Her re-entry came at the nadir for Latin in the U.S. In 1976 just over 150,000 American public high school students took the language, down a disastrous 79% from the 1962 peak of...
More's writing expressed the agonized self-contradiction of an up-to-date careerist pursued by ancient demons. Marius rates him as "the greatest English storyteller between Chaucer and Shakespeare." The wit and irony that would soon mark the best Elizabethan playwrights already distinguished More. Like his friend Erasmus...
There are illustrators and illustrators. But there is only one Maurice Sendak. His drawings for Grimm fairy tales and his million-copy bestseller, Where the Wild Things Are (1963), unfolded the primary metaphors of dreams; In the Night Kitchen (1970) fused Walt Disney, Laurel and Hardy, the comic strips of...
Can it be outrageous? I'd like the complete 250 volumes of the Loeb Classical Library. I already have two or three," says The Rev, Peter J. Gomes, Minister in Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals. Padre, you're welcome to come borrow I he Crimson's I...