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...friendship hasn't. The two former partners now only communicate through lawyers. Dicke is optimistic about Matchbid's future. Geibel has abandoned the New Economy...
...hero Vassily Zaitsev exists, he may have been an invention of Russian propaganda. Joseph Fiennes plays Danilov, an officer whose main responsibility is to write such propaganda to boost the morale of the troops and the Russian people. When these two young men meet each other it is friendship at first sight, and Danilov makes Vassily the center of a propaganda campaign based on the soldier's successes, creating the catch-phrase, "How many German officers have you shot today?" Danilov's campaign is successful. The Germans, upset by anything that helps the Russian morale, and needing a morale boost...
...regarding the state of American letters during these years, and to reflect on the complex relations--relations characterized by the strains of money, fame, politics and race--between two colleagues of different generations. Most of all, however, these letters challenge the reader to consider the nature of an evolving friendship between two ambitious authors, one whose career was on the rise, and the other whose career was moving in the opposite direction. Bernard rises to the challenge of infusing this vast collection with the same energy with which it was originally composed, gracefully piecing together the stories of the characters...
...restoration of Van Vechten within the world of American letters, although a helpful contribution to our conception of the ways in which literary history unfolds, is by no means the only theme of this book. This collection is first and foremost a biography of a friendship spanning four decades. Bernard's introductions to each section and helpful explanatory paragraphs help keep her story moving in a brisk and nearly suspenseful manner. Her careful annotations (which are thoughtfully formatted at the end of each letter instead of at the end of the book or at the end of each chapter) breathe...
...need a National Missile Defense system. What we need is the reinvigoration of America's commitment to the New World Order it helped create. Washington has strayed from its task of "making the world safe for democracy"--a task that included fostering friendship with Russia. As a result, our reputation has been sullied and our allies estranged. Our president's main foreign policy objective should be to repair that tarnished reputation and rebuild our alliances--not to recreate the uncomfortable tension of a bygone...