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...biography of Radclyffe Hall, Sally Cline has decided not to take the easy path, and steps away from making The Well the central focus of Hall's life. Instead, Cline takes the long view, exploring Hall's entire life from beginning to end within the context of the history in which she lived her life and wrote her books. The result is an exhaustively informative, if occasionally tedious, literary biography. It takes a lot of effort to get through it, but the life it explores is a genuinely fascinating...
...great strengths of Cline's book is that very richness of context: in her hands, our journey through Radclyffe Hall's life becomes a journey through half a century of political, literary, and cultural history. The picture we derive from her biography is that of a writer who, far from existing for only a single moment of historical controversy, lived richly and fully--and in very interesting times. We whirl with the young Hall through the wild nightlife of Jazz Age London, watch her early involvement with the women's suffrage movement, and chafe with her when, at the outbreak...
...adds that his goal is to make students aware of the social context of music...
...vestibule of this new millennium continues to have intruders that TIME tries to wrestle into moral and historical context. The digital age, for example, has brought not only the excitement of more democratic forms of media but also the specter of invasions of our privacy and the spread of false information and poisonous ideas to every nook of a networked world. The impending biotech age promises not only the ability to engineer an end to diseases but also the weird prospects of cloning our bodies and tinkering with the genes of our children...
...White House had a sinking feeling when it contemplated clauses that called on the U.N. to respect Iraq's "legitimate concerns relating to national security, sovereignty and dignity." This is diplomatic boilerplate that has been used in other Security Council documents, but in this context it could become another monkey wrench in Saddam's toolbox...