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But in general it was Shakespeare, not Milton, who gave Fuseli his big themes of blood, darkness, prophecy and witchcraft, those unfailing ingredients of the romantic sublime. Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream were his favorite sources, though he also illustrated Lear. Hamlet and some of the histories...
Inevitably, the book is more concerned with The New Yorker then than now. Gill's memories are mostly ebullient. They include, of course, Ross, that "aggressively ignorant" Midwesterner who bullied The New Yorker into shape. Thurber's portrait remains definitive, but Gill adds amusing embellishments. Once Gill included...
A President pleading once again for more U.S. military aid to Southeast Asia. Antiwar underground radicals igniting a bomb at the State Department, hiding another in a federal building in Oakland. Peace marchers rallying in Washington, exhorted by Congresswoman Bella Abzug, Congressman-Priest Robert Drinan, Folk Singers Joan Baez and...
Refiners could well have had additional reasons for seizing the first opportunity to cut wholesale prices. Fed up with high sugar costs, the Consumer Federation of America is staging a ten-day nationwide consumer boycott scheduled to end Dec. 10. Some supermarket chains, like Tradewell Stores Inc., which operates in...
Under Neal's attack, Mitchell insisted that seizing leaders of groups planning demonstrations against the 1972 Republican National Convention and taking them to Mexico-part of a plan presented to him by convicted Burglar G. Gordon Liddy-would not have constituted the crime of kidnaping. Mitchell called it "segregating...