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...wood and plasterboard, it is defended by only one secretary. The 71-year-old Kahn can be found in a small room (stacked with battered tomes on architectural history), tossing his thatch of white hair and discoursing in a high, cryptic, unstoppable flow on the principles of his craft. There is probably no serious architecture student...
...hostesses, entertaining geniuses destined to fame. Maynard Keynes and Lytton Strachey, and geniuses contracted to obscurity. Saxon Syndey-Turner. Bell reveals the Virginia of the Bloomsbury period to have irresistible, gay, irreverent, charming, flirtatious and independent. Admidst the libertarian affairs of Bloomsbury Virginia was also earnestly training for her craft. She read omnivorously, took up journalism, practiced writing daily, and attempted to compensate for the lack of formal university education she resented having been denied...
Perhaps Virginia Woolf's current stature and importance to present-day women derives from exactly the excruciating periods in her career. Bell makes clear her courage and fortitude, as he does her expert sense of her craft. In the end, reading Bell's account shows Virginia Woolf had more emotional resiliency than she has been credited for. As a novelist she succeeded in solving the intellectual challenge writing presented by embodying her sensibility in the only shape capable of expressing it. That she was ignorant of great preserves of human experience is undeniable, but to expect more from...
...inside. Painted pitch black, they looked like the birds of death that they are. Of all the 80 or so aircraft I watched depart, only one of them had to use its "drag bag"-the drag parachute used to abort a takeoff because of a technical difficulty. A reserve craft quickly took its place. That mass departure, timed to the split second, was a feat the Strategic Air Command ought to teach the world's commercial airlines...
...read as if it were being written in front of use we feel we are present at a first, groping recollection of submerged memories, but that is only Doctorow's cunning. In effect, our reading becomes an act of participation; this both dares Doctorow to match his craft against our knowledge of his trickery, and challenges us to delve into ourselves as deeply as does his narrator. Daniel's honesty accuses us: we have shied away from confronting our compromised selves and foreshortened social roles. And we have given government--no, all social and cultural public life--over...