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Here is a good book for reading period. Nearly always funny, A Fine Madness relates the adventures of a talented and amoral poet, one Sampson Shillitoe, who is undergoing psychoanalysis to remove his writer's block. The novel maintains a high comic tone, and certain passages are classic, both in...
Math Book Muse. A slight, trim, brunette bachelor girl, Bridget Riley is now a Jill-of-all-trades in the London office of the advertising empire of J. Walter Thompson. She spent her youth during the blitz in Cornwall and Lincolnshire, which she calls "a fascinating horizontal landscape, terrifically recessional...
The Connection is an important film which represents something new in American movies. It is experimental in technique and daring in execution. It takes place entirely in one room; yet the skill of its director, writer and actors have made it a continuously fascinating, even gripping, work of art.
A Way to Live. Sargent was born in Florence in 1856 to a weak-willed Phil adelphia doctor whose wife expatriated his family to a never-ending Grand Tour of Europe. He never saw the U.S. until 1876, learning his art in fashionable Parisian ateliers. This pursuit was largely a...
"The right of privacy always needs defending, but the proposed civil rights legislation in no way encroaches on that right, properly defined. Nor is the possibility that a government may abuse a new power an argument for denying it a legitimate authority. It is an argument only for preventing the...