Word: erasable
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In distinct contrast to this edgy placement of Englishmen on Irish soil (a juxtaposition which comes up repeatedly in Trevor, and specifically in his latest novel, Fools of Fortune); a trilogy of stories entitled Matilda's England is a sublime, melancholic pattern of a woman's reminiscences of a life...
Like any movie (overtly political or not) with a strong point of view, Boat People is propaganda. Most of Vietnamese officialdom is polite but abrupt, in a hurry to build a model Marxist nation. The film's heroes are the "misfits" who anchor their dreams in the past or...
A professor at Harvard since 1949, Bailyn--or "But," as he is known to friends--has written or edited more than a dozen books documenting the history of the American revolutionary and colonial eras. One book, "The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution," won a Pulitzer Prize: another. "The Ordeal...
Since Rose always seemed to be from another generation anyway, his formula for measuring eras may be authoritative. "The best then would be the best now, and the best now would be the best then," he says. Athletes are fitter today, obliged by the high stakes to train in the...
Your article "Whatever Became of the Future?" [June 27] made me think of the past. I grew up in the '30s, when Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer and other Bauhaus architects were beginning to influence American architecture. During the building boom that followed World War II, I looked forward to...