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So it was with surprise, as well as a sigh, that the entertainment community greeted Hirschfeld's death last week. (Of what? Surely not of old age!) Obituarians too easily write that one man's passing marks the death of an era, but it can be written in Al Hirschfeld...
The recent opinion piece by R. Gerard McGreary '04 shows a lack of analytic ability that is endemic to liberalism, especially as expressed on America’s academic campuses (Op-ed, “A Conservative America,” Jan. 22). McGeary cannot distinguish between conservatives of different...
DIED. MARY BRIAN, 96, popular contract starlet whose 82-film career bridged the silent and talking eras; in Del Mar, Calif. She co-starred in such silents as Beau Geste and Knockout Reilly, and played opposite Gary Cooper in one of the earliest western talkies, 1929's The Virginian.
History, of course, has known plenty of such eras. The European balance of power system was one. It lasted through centuries of wars of increasing devastation until competition between nations destroyed the continent in two world wars. The respective “Warring States” periods of China and...
DIED. RICHARD HELMS, 89, former CIA director who presided over some of the agency's most controversial operations during the Vietnam War and Watergate eras; in Washington. The famously secretive spy master plotted to overthrow Chilean President Salvador Allende and assassinate Cuba's Fidel Castro with, among other things, poisoned...