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Such situations were once the end of Westerns; in The Stalking Moon it is only the beginning. Sarah's "husband" is Salvaje (Nathaniel Narcisco), a murderous Apache with a memory as long as his rifle. As the troop moves West, Salvaje follows like a red plague, killing everything-including horses and dogs-in his path...
Many M.L.A. editors insist their plodding, comma-splicing spadework is absolutely necessary because the texts of any American classics have been hopelessly corrupted. Typesetters were often careless; authors read proofs badly; later editors bowdlerized on grounds of prudence. Nathaniel Hawthorne's widow, for example, was an eccentric who diligently excised all words that offended her from his manuscript notebooks before she let them be published...
...Nathaniel a Bowditch rollicking was a Massachusetts astronomer and mathmetician. In 1799 he wr50te the U.S.'s first authoritative mariner's manual. Did he look like a rollicking seafarer or a pinch-faced accountant? How pretty was Charlotte Cushman, the American stage's most beguiling actress of the 1840s?Gold was first discovered in California at Sutler's Mill, but who was this German-born idealist, John A. Sutter? And what was his appearance after the gold rush had, paradoxically enough, ruined...
...country store. Salty and profane as a whaler captain, he has a mean word for everybody. Composer Deems Taylor? "What a punk!" His Mississippi steamboat-captain grandfather, Charles Henry Ruggles? "A terrible old tyrant-he had to be captain of the ship all the time." His father Nathaniel? 'Drunk all the time." His boyhood hero, Actor Richard Mansfield? "A fine actor but a mean bastard," To this day, he has only one answer when asked about the state of American music: "I think Sun Treader is the greatest composition" And his reply to the obligatory question about his remarkable...
...Your article on Mr. Nathaniel Owings and today's architecture was indeed much overdue. Buildings have long reflected the people that inhabit them, the times that harbor them and the civilizations that grow with them. It is especially apparent today, when one has only to go to Harlem or Watts or Hough to see how the buildings reflect the temper of the people...