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A number of good reasons for Whistler's waspishness are suggested in this sturdy biography by Professor Stanley Weintraub, who has also written books about Oscar Wilde and G.B. Shaw. Whistler was sensitive about his size, uncertain about his talents and resentful toward an art establishment that refused to...
Wiesenthal brings a detective's breathless prose to his various hypotheses, but his message-that Columbus was a crypto-Jew or, more likely, a descendant of converted Jews-is anything but new. Spain's eminent historian and novelist Salvador de Madariaga covered the ground four decades ago.
The Israeli challenge since 1948 has had much to do with the thrusting of the Arabs into the modern world. "We really should thank Israel for forcing us to grow up," a Beirut publisher remarked last week. In Cairo, a Palestinian businessman recalled the time in 1948 when his father...
So the Ukiyo, the Floating World-a little universe that stretched from the theater changeroom to the sake bar, from teahouse to whorehouse-was populated by actors, balladeers, pimps, wrestlers, inquisitive artists and, above all, every class and kind of girl. Japan now experienced a split between country virtues and...
This pair, both Americans, illustrate Powell's penchant for isolating national and temperamental types. Glober is a sixtyish, playboy film producer, a self-made man up from Jewish-immigrant slums, who takes a snippet of pubic hair from every woman he seduces. Gwinnett is a withdrawn, thirtyish academic, a...