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Voyage en Grande Garabagne. Henri de Montherlant, Les Jeunes Filles. Marianne Moore, Selected Poems. George Moore, Memoirs of My Dead Life. George Orwell, Animal Farm, 1984. Wilfred Owen, Poems. William Plomer, Turbott Wolfe. Ezra Pound, Lustra & Mauberley, The Pisan
Deep down, even the most Milquetoast driver occasionally imagines himself a Juan Fangio or Jimmy Clark, shifting down for the Curva Grande at Monza or roaring onto the Mulsanne Straight at Le Mans. Few automakers play on this fancy so successfully as Milan's Alfa-Romeo. An ad for...
Gringo Grumbles. Mexico's motives are not altogether selfless. It would like to boost exports and build a stake in the thriving, 12 million-consumer Central American Common Market. This in turn led some Central American businessmen, worried about superior competition from what they refer to as the "Colossus...
And then there was a Ranger named Ray ("Pinochle") Miller. When captured by Mexican bandits who decided "to 'dobe-wall him," he shot the firing squad with a camera before it could shoot him with bullets. Flattered and fascinated, the bandits began posing for photographs and drinking straight shots...
But the grande dame is there, and to have missed her would be to miss one of Boston's most charming moods. It's an anachronism that somehow works, a reversion that is delightful rather than reactionary. It is perhaps the only mood in which the Dickensian Charles Basin skyline...