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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...explicitly anti-Semitic tracts from the early twentieth century. In what New York Times columnist Frank Rich has called a 'bait and switch,' Robertson quotes almost verbatim from these works, leaving out of his own work the glaringly obvious anti-Semitic remarks that permeate such rightly forgotten books as Nesta Webster's 1922 World Revolution: Plot Against Civilization...

Author: By Samuel J. Rascoffs, | Title: People of the Books | 4/7/1995 | See Source »

Bryn was a busy kid. "I was quite a little taxi for him," recalls his mother Nesta Jones. (Terfel is Bryn's middle name; another singer uses the name Bryn Jones.) What he learned at the eisteddfods was stage presence: "When I went to college I was streets ahead of others because I was used to facing the public." At London's Guildhall School of Music and Drama, he was awarded a scholarship. It was then, Nesta Jones says, "that we thought he had something special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPERA: In The Lap of the Gods | 11/28/1994 | See Source »

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