Word: himselfe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like much of Arthur Miller's other work, A View from the Bridge belongs to the Drama of Embarrassment--almost the dominant American genre--where the hero makes a spectacle of himself while his wife wishes he would behave, and all the people onstage (and not a few in the...
One morning Vag awoke from a disturbing dream to find himself transformed into a large tape recorder. Indeed, he was no ordinary tape recorder, but a portable, nearly automatic machine which was capable of functioning with a minimum of whirring, clicking and other unsociable noise.
But perhaps the greatest Tory asset was Harold Macmillan himself and the general post war image of his party which he has helped to create in the public mind. This is the image of a united, progressive, responsible party which can maintain Britain's role abroad and bring prosperity without...
Aside from well-written and amusing scenes. The Baron in the Trees stops short of real worth. Its satire on life-on-the-ground is too tentative to slice deep, and only once does Author Calvino suggest a theme. That is when Voltaire asks Cosimo's brother: "But is...
While Author Kieran easily makes his point that nature endures all things, even concrete and steel, he also chronicles the species that have been pushed beyond the city limits-the oyster, the deer, the bobcat and beaver. Among the latest to leave is snowy-thatched, Latin-quoting John Kieran himself...