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...What about modern, gel hybrids? Dolly? The 24-hour information superhighway? Stick to Tang and astronaut ice cream, even disposable cartridges, my friends. Nothing beats fin-de-siècle sex appeal...

Author: By J.s. Paul, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Pen vs. Pen: FM Contemplates the New 'It' Pen | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

...thread of folly that runs through Barbara Tuchman's books is a filament of doom. In The Guns of August, a wrongheaded French strategy in the first days of World War I leads inexorably to the deadlock of the trenches. The tensions and energies of fin-de-siéde Europe and America in The Proud Tower are primed to explode in that same war. And the chaos of the 14th century becomes A Distant Mirror of the modern distemper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Downhill Road from Troy | 3/26/1984 | See Source »

NONFICTION: And No Birds Sang, Farley Mowat ∙Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske Maugham, Ted Morgan ∙Misia, Arthur Gold & Robert Fizdale ∙Show People, Kenneth Tynan ∙The Last Nomad, Wilfred Thesiger ∙The Return of Eva Perón, V.S. Naipaul

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice | 4/14/1980 | See Source »

NONFICTION: And No Birds Sang, Farley Mowat ∙Dreams in the Mirror, Richard S. Kennedy ∙Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske Maugham, Ted Morgan ∙Misia, Arthur Gold & Robert Fizdale ∙Show People, Kenneth Tynan ∙The Last Nomad, Wilfred Thesiger

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice | 4/7/1980 | See Source »

NONFICTION: And No Birds Sang, Farley Mowat ·Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske · Misia, Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale My Many Years, Arthur Rubinstein Sex in History, Reay Tannahill Show People, Kenneth Tynan · The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Editors' Choice | 3/10/1980 | See Source »

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