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Was Peking seriously espousing such nonsense? Well, not exactly. The propagandists' real target, some Western observers speculated, was not Beethoven, Schubert, or even poor Mozart, but someone much closer at hand. Though Sinologists differed as to who the target might be, one school went so far as to speculate...
EVERYTHING THAT John Gardner has written before does not prepare you for Nickel Mountain. He calls it a pastoral novel, but that only makes you more wary. And the further you read into the book the more anxious you get. You keep telling yourself there has got to be a...
One of the movie's most articulate critics is Dominican Father Richard Woods, a young expert on occultism at Chicago's Loyola University who recently published a book called The Devil (Thomas More Press). Woods encountered 23 cases of people who thought they were possessed by the devil...
For Boucher, as the Goncourts put it, it was "a vocation to leave some trace of his art on every passing manifestation of fashion." The tumbling, rosy cupids and tiny pastoral scenes with shepherds in knee breeches that are the cliches of rococo chinaware decoration were largely Boucher's...
Greeley also produces a flood of popular works. In the past three months, he has published three new books. Building Coalition: American Politics in the 70s (New Viewpoints) is what Greeley calls "unsolicited advice to the Democratic Party on how to put itself back together." Sexual Intimacy (Thomas More Press...