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NONFICTION: Abroad, Paul Fussell China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich Lyndon, Merle Miller Nature and Culture, Barbara Novak No Man's Land, John Toland Walter Lippmann and the American Century, Ronald Steel
Elizabeth Taylor, playing Mary, Queen of Scots, is peremptorily directing her director: "Jason, will you get that creep out of eye line?" "Who, me?" snarls Kim Novak, elaborately gowned as Queen Elizabeth I. "Jason," Taylor continues, violet eyes flashing, "would you put the Virgin Queen back in her cage?" A feud on the set between two aging prima donnas? Yes and no. The sniping is all in the script for The Mirror Crack 'd, a film based on a 1962 mystery novel by the late Agatha Christie. The two '50s movie queens portray two '50s movie queens...
NONFICTION: Abroad, Paul Fussell China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston Heartsounds, Martha Weinman Lear Kipling, Auden & Co., Randall Jarrell ∙Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich∙Lyndon, Merle Miller Nature and Culture, Barbara Novak...
...China Men, Maxine Hong Kingston ¶ Heartsounds, Martha Weinman Lear ¶ Kipling, Auden & Co., Randall Jarrell ¶ Laughing in the Hills, Bill Barich Lyndon, Merle Miller ¶ Nature and Culture, Barbara ¶ Novak Philosophy and Public Policy, Sidney Hook
...world," as Melville wrote in Moby Dick, "which to the eyes of the old trappers and hunters revived the glories of those primeval times when Adam walked majestic as a god." It deeply affected painting as well as literature, and those influences are the subject of Art Historian Barbara Novak's remarkable book. "Meditation on nature in the nineteenth century," she points out, "was a recognized avenue to the center of being ... 'Looking' became an act of devotion." Thus American landscape and its contents, the effects of light, weather, distance and time, were seen as the unedited...