Word: mightly
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Paul Bowles is a Renaissance man born into an age that applauds specialization. Doing several things very well indeed has, paradoxically, brought him less public acclaim than he might have received had he stuck to one. Bowles, 68, has been a distinguished composer; in 1947 Musician Virgil Thomson called him "America's most original and skillful composer of chamber music." He has written music for the stage, particularly for the plays of his friend Tennessee Williams. He has also been a tireless collector of folklore and legends, especially from Morocco, where he has lived on and off since...
...west of fashionable society that it was nicknamed the Dakota after the remote Western territory. Yet Clark went ahead with his ersatz castle, variously described as German Renaissance and Victorian chateau. The architecture and appointments, as Birmingham puts it, were meant to "convey the impression that, though one might be living in an apartment house, one was really living in a mansion...
...gazebos, an English baronial dining hall and a uniformed staff of 150. But then the Dakota was no more extravagant than the age in which it was built. Although the building looked out over a vista of squatters' shacks in Central Park, society's reigning Four Hundred might spend $200,000 on a single ball...
...sure, has always shown a lively interest in World War II, but in the past few years the American appetite for war lore has begun to seem downright voracious-and is being fed as though it might be insatiable. Bantam Books, for instance, has put out 31 nonfiction books about the war in the past 18 months, 15 of them at a single pop last March, and all as part of an ambitious plan to put both new and old accounts of the war on the racks continually and indefinitely. Reflecting the same market mood, subscriptions to TIME-LIFE Books...
...Robert Dallek of U.C.L.A.: "We have to go back. Where we are now is a direct result of what evolved during that time." To his own surprise, Dallek's newly published F.D.R. and American Foreign Policy, 1932-45, has sold, instead of a few volumes to scholars as might have been expected, 10,000 copies in three months. Says the author: "It's a hot topic...