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...After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, James Davidson and Mark Lytle∙Clare Boothe Luce, Wilfrid Sheed∙How to Make War, James F. Dunnigan The Imperial Rockefeller, Joseph E. Peisico∙Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Diana Trilling∙Scenes of Childhood, Sylvia Townsend Warner
Thematically, The Blue Mask is a study in contrasts. The album opens with the "My House," an uncharacteristic yet moving look at marital bliss featuring Reed and his wife Sylvia at home. Love and contentment run thickly through this track, as they do through rocker that espouses heterosexual love as they ultimate salvation in a mad world...
...Crimson cagers shot a sobering 23 percent from the floor, while Brown managed to hit 59 percent. Brown hoopsters Trish Wurtz, Sylvia Mass and Donna Yaffe each hit for 12 points, many of which came from outside...
NONFICTION: After the Fact: The Art of Historical Detection, James Davidson and Mark Lytle ∙ Happy to Be Here, Garrison Keillor Lectures on Russian Literature, Vladimir Nabokov ∙ Mrs. Harris: The Death of the Scarsdale Diet Doctor, Diana Trilling ∙ Scenes of Childhood, Sylvia Townsend Warner
...ultimate magic was the act of writing: the incantation of words. In her summary of her childhood she explained: "There was a world of things, in which everything had its name and place, and there was a world of words, in which everything came to life." Sylvia Townsend Warner never outgrew that childhood. All her long life she retained the level innocent stare that sees so much more than just innocence. This strangely sophisticated child taught herself how to describe the ordinary with precision and wonder and a certain elegance, until even an adult could see that absolutely nothing...