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...Bell By Iris Murdoch Penguin Classics...
...Cold War: A New History (the Penguin Press; 333 pages), John Lewis Gaddis, the pre-eminent American scholar of the period, does indeed manage to make the old global standoff seem, for all its insanities, like a relatively coherent and well-managed struggle. In this brisk, useful primer on the period, he reminds us that containment, the decades-long American policy of confining Soviet ambitions abroad, though a dangerous game, was a highly successful one. "The world, I am quite sure, is a better place for that conflict having been fought in the way it was," he writes...
...Alexander Hamilton,” by Ron Chernow. (Penguin Books, 2004). Hamilton paid off his paramour’s husband so the fling could go on. And when faced with charges of adultery, he ‘fessed up without haggling over the meaning of the word ‘is.’ Perhaps the most dapper man to ever hold the position of Treasury secretary—at least until Larry Summers...
...hair from the wig she wore last year.Candace “Cece” Keefe ’07 and her blockmates will not be purchasing anything for their Halloween costumes this year. Inspired by the recent release of the film “March of the Penguins,” the group will be dressing up as penguins, wearing black pants, shirts, and ski masks.They plan to fashion beaks and webbed feet from orange construction paper and will use pillows and white poster board for their penguin stomachs. For one Oona’s shopper...
Kimmelman sets out on most of these cultural pilgrimages in search of a transcendent experience. He doesn't always get one, but we do. Though he is the art critic of the New York Times, his light-footed and surprising book The Accidental Masterpiece (Penguin Press; 245 pages) is anything but a dutiful gathering of old clips. It's the work of a man who is both intellectually and physically intrepid, somebody who peregrinates between art-world topics and his own life experience, shedding light on such questions as the uses of suffering in the creative process or the sources...