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The memories are layered. Francois Mitterrand could savor echoes from that same Apollo Room. It was there that France's Marquis de Lafayette, hero of the Revolutionary War, was welcomed back to the U.S. in 1824 and toasted as a soldier of liberty.
Typewriters in Art. Claes Oldenburg's Soft Typewriter. Also, Leroy Anderson's musical number The Typewriter, remembered for its effective use of the bell. Marshall McLuhan surmised that the typewriter has contributed to the writing of free-verse poetry, because the righthand margins are uneven. This is fascinating...
Car buyers already are showing the influence of cheaper oil. Sales of Chevrolet's full-size Caprice and Impala models rose 12.6% during the first quarter, for ex ample, while its subcompact Chevette showed a 40.2% drop. Ford sold 25.3% more of its big Crown Victorias, and 9.8% fewer...
Writers who journey through the accounts of his life almost always confess some bafflement about why he was such a great figure in his time and remains so in ours. British Historian Marcus Cunliffe points out that Washington was a good man but not a saint, a competent soldier but...
I am a death-row prisoner in Florida. One issue not adequately covered in your otherwise objective article was the inevitability of a mistake. I know of 14 cases in which men who were once on death row have been set free. The Marquis de Lafayette put this issue into...