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World War II could not entirely extinguish the old Jamesian values. John F. Kennedy's Peace Corps was an attempt to conscript the young without uniforms or weaponry; during the debates of the space race, Aerospace Executive James McDonnell called the race to the planets "a creative substitute for war." On the war-ravaged Continent, Jean Monnet had a less visionary plan: the Common Market. As he saw it, the interdependence of French and German technology and resources would substitute economic values for military rivalries, altering the context in which Europe's traditional tribalism had functioned...
...acre estate in Saratoga Springs, into a working haven for writers, musicians and artists. Mrs. Ames decreed that the 54-room Yaddo mansion must remain "a splendid private home, where a small 'house party' of friends may feel wholly at ease," and she ran it in that Jamesian way until 1969, keeping Yaddo short on rules (no visitors from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and long on big-name residents. They included James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein, Edward Hopper, Louis Kronenberger, Carson McCullers and Clyfford Still. John Cheever, another visitor, credited Mrs. Ames with a "softly imperious" ability...
...their natural course. When James' people talk about being invited to a salon or about being cut off, they are employing the author's own intricate metaphor-performing a ritual of crucial selection. Bogdanovich and his screenwriter, Frederic Raphael (Darling), have swept out all the undertone from Jamesian society, trying instead to make high drama out of mere social graces. It is a little like trying to wring a sonnet out of a bill of fare...
...here" is not only the hotel in Switzerland where Nabokov makes his home, but the rarefied, almost Jamesian air of Meisterschaft which has grown up about him in the last few years. He is the one clear, current giant of our literature, I mean of American literature and English literature in general, and it is there, in language itself, that he has been most at home, since leaving Russia at 20, Western Europe at 40, and America for Europe again...
...unflinchingly charges half the original price for all of its used paperbacks. But give them a place like the Starr Book Shop with its crazy castle exterior and its piles and shelves of musty, dust-covered, unalphabetized books, and their romanticism goes wild. Visions of Bloomsbury circles and artistic Jamesian bookbinders flit through their minds. No doubt they imagine the booksellers themselves -- the tall, thin man with the distinguished-looking, white goatee, and the heavier-set, clean-shaven man with the ever-present pipe--as the central figures in a coterie of important literary Bostonians...