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Greenwillow's is a world, in short, where every day seems like Arbor Day and every night like Halloween, inhabited by people who are most often seen on calendars. Whatever the charm of Greenwillow the novel, the play is as vague in its storytelling as in its geography. It...
Boswell for the Defence: 1769-1774, edited by William K. Wimsatt Jr. and Frederick A. Pottle. The seventh volume in the delightful Yale University series takes Bozzy through his sometimes tumultuous first years as a husband and Edinburgh attorney.
The latest volume of the delightful Yale University series, The Private Papers of James Boswell (seven published, eight or ten to come) opens in 1769, when Boswell is a fast-rising, 29-year-old Edinburgh lawyer. Thanks to his bestselling book, The Account of Corsica, he is also a writer...
Fiorello! Out of a dynamic human being (New York City's Little Flower, La Guardia) and a razzle-dazzle era comes a musical whose few weaknesses cannot keep it from seeming generally delightful.
For all his wealth of sentiment, there is little sentimental about Koerner, and the America he pictures in kaleidoscopic fashion is more disturbing, all in all, than delightful. Future generations may well debate how much of this disturbing quality was in the man and how much in the nation.