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...earlier age--real-life characters like Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey and Cab Calloway practically jostle you as they shoulder their way through smoky speakeasies, and the constant banging of the riveters provides a percussive sound track that drives the book. By the end, labor itself is the only pure thing left in Manhattan. Empire Rising is everything a period novel should be, but it illustrates a paradox bigger than any period: if they work hard enough, even flawed, ephemeral people can build monuments that are perfect, and endure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: They Built This City | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

...relegate the horrors of the Holocaust and those responsible for them to the realm of pure anomaly, to make them singular and unrepresentable—this is a failure to confront the moral complexity and the danger that those evetns reveal...

Author: By Moira G. Weigel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Hitler's Downfall Rescreened | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

...keeping with the Zeitgeist’s image as a testing ground rather than a place for pure entertainment, the club does not sell food or alcohol and its audience tends to be serious about appreciating the music...

Author: By Michael A. Mohammed, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE HOT SPOT: Zeitgeist Gallery | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

...show’s run by a cheekily-named organization called “The Critique of Pure Reason,” and in typically Kantian fashion they aren’t selling any advance tickets, so you’d better show up right around 8. This really is a once-in-a-lifetime chance, because the YWCA is about as big as your kindergarten gymnasium, and it’s rare that you get to be so intimate in such a setting...

Author: By Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Indie Rock Triathlon of Awesome | 3/18/2005 | See Source »

...Concertino in Eb for Trombone and Orchestra,” by Ferdinand David, was acoustically the highlight of the evening. Professional soloist Nathaniel Dickey produced a tone sweet and pure, impressing the audience with his own virtuosic skills on the trombone and conveying a sensitivity the instrument is not usually associated with...

Author: By Madeleine Bäverstam, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ARTSMONDAY: Wind Ensemble Takes It to the T | 3/14/2005 | See Source »

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