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...Germans, namely, the German language they held in common." Their behavior quickly proves unworthy of their unifying ideal. They begin by squabbling over the proper use of dactylic words. They fall into grim dispute "over the essence of irony and of humor." Thunderous abuse follows the reading of each manuscript. Worst of all, these noble spirits find themselves implicated in the cruelty of their age; the feast mysteriously provided them by Gelnhausen, a dashing young member of their entourage, turns out to have been tainted by violence and plunder...
About a week after President Reagan presented Congress in February with his new economic plan. Rodney G. Dennis, curator of manuscripts in the Harvard College Library, went to Washington to look for funding of the largest project he has ever undertaken: microfilming Harvard's entire manuscript collection. The project's cost was around $6 million, and Dennis hoped the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) would help foot the bill...
...among them. His work on this biography dates back to 1968, when he began reporting on the group and their financial empire for the London Sunday Times. After years of research and writing, his project was nearly finished when Lennon was killed. Norman added a sad prologue to his manuscript: "The vigil was for John; the farewell was to all the Beatles...
...million in annual sales), signed up conservative stalwarts, including Jerry Falwell, as editors. There will be considerable commercial fanfare when the full Bible comes out next year. But like the old King, the New King is hobbled by its dependence on what even conservative experts agree are outdated manuscript sources...
Paltiel's memoirs are smuggled out of prison by a sympathetic court stenographer who passes the manuscript to Kossover's mute son Grisha. The boy's inability to speak is the symbolic disability of a new generation. But Grisha escapes his father's fate when he emigrates to Israel with the tale committed to memory...