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This flourish of a book takes Raleigh from the year 1603, when he was condemned to death for his supposed part in a plot against James I, the new king, to 1618, when James finally enforced the sentence. Raleigh was a complex figure-a scholar, poet, courtier, soldier, explorer, promoter...
The following is an interview conducted at Harvard last week dealing with social and political problems of Latin America. Questions appear in italic type.
The price of private schooling comes high. Tuition runs up to $900 a year at the Roman Catholic Convent of the Sacred Heart, attended by Caroline Kennedy and housed in the Fifth Avenue palace built by Banker Otto Kahn. Brearley, academically the top school for girls, charges up to $1...
Fuentes is at his least effective when the blunt weapons of Marxist homiletic fall heaviest. This occurs in impressionistic italic inserts in Artemio Cruz's dying reveries, and is a curious exercise in reportage in the manner of the early Dos Passes-a novelist still admired in Mexico, where...
No cult follows Tommy Flanagan. In almost perfect secret, he has played with all the jazz giants for a half-dozen years, cheerfully accepting their styles, ingeniously enriching them with his own. But with his name still an italic footnote to somebody else's accomplishment, he has developed into...