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Paper Back Booksmith, located across the street from the Brattle Street Theater kept its doors open 24 hours a day. A popular student hangout, Booksmith often filled up with customers after a movie finished at the theater across the street...
...says his friends and classmates won't be surprised to hear that his career has kept him near the stage...
Whittaker Chambers, Tony's ogre, kept up a correspondence in the '50s with the young William F. Buckley Jr. Chambers was emphatic in his contempt for Joe McCarthy: "For the Right to tie itself in any way to Senator McCarthy is suicide...[H]e can't lead anybody because he can't think. He is a rabble-rouser and a slugger...
...easy for them to do it. Used to be, spies were guys in their intelligence service and ours who lied and duped one another into handing over a nation's secrets with help from the occasional renegade citizen. We each knew the other was an enemy, and we kept our countries and our people at arm's length. Even so, secrets slipped out. But how do you guard your nation against information-hungry friends or business partners? What do you do to keep national-security secrets when a foreign scientist can scan our unclassified journals for weapons know...
...Scotia, bound for New York City. Edgar Degas was then 38, a promising but not a well-known artist, and not at all the enormous figure in French art that he would become. But there was never a time in his life when he did not work, and he kept painting and drawing throughout his five-month sojourn among his brothers and cousins in New Orleans. Hence the shapely and interesting show on view through Aug. 29 at the New Orleans Museum of Art: "Degas and New Orleans." It consists only of some 40 paintings and drawings...