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"A human community, if it is to last long, must exert a sort of centripetal force, holding local soil and local memory in place," Kentucky farmer- philosopher Wendell Berry told Iowans last year in a lecture on the work of local culture. "Country people more and more live like city...
I don't see it that way. I see the problem of the frozen assets as an indication of whether there is a change from a hostile policy. Naturally, this may have an effect on building Iran, but I believe that Iran, which is already rich with its own natural...
It has been more than 14 years since the last Americans were lifted off the embassy roof in Saigon, a televised vignette of ignominy that is still replayed in the U.S.'s memory. Now Viet Nam has suffered its own setback: after more than a decade of trying to defeat...
...dashing stranger . . . A Cliff's Notes summary of Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind? Not quite. It is the plot of La Bicyclette Bleue (The Blue Bicycle), a 400-page 1981 best seller by French novelist Regine Deforges. This week Deforges and her publishing company, which she now owns, are fighting to save their own fortunes in Paris, where they are defendants in a plagiarism suit brought by Mitchell's heirs...
In Italy another Gone With the Wind clone has surfaced under the title L'Orto del Paradiso (The Garden of Paradise). When the heroine of Rosa Giannetta Alberoni's novel kisses her amante ("Arianna seemed to hear a roaring, as if she had held seashells against her ears"), the moment...