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Join The Mamas and the Papas, Aztec Two-Step and Cormac McCarthy at the Waterville Valley Festival of the Arts this Friday night at Mt. Tecumseh Ski Area in Waterville Valley, NH. Tickets are $17, $14, lawn seats are $10 and a family lawn ticket is $25. Telephone...
...ceremonies on the hillside from which General William Tecumseh Sherman watched the battle of Atlanta in the Civil War, Reagan and Carter sustained the conciliatory spirit of the occasion despite reporters' efforts to provoke them into fresh bickering. That very morning Carter had lambasted Reagan on the Today show for his lack of progress on arms control. So as the two Mr. Presidents toured the complex of four circular structures, television correspondents yelled baited questions about Carter's criticism and about whether Reagan had "caved in" to the Soviet Union to secure the release of Nicholas Daniloff. Reagan...
...McElwee headed South to retrace the path taken by General William Tecumseh Sherman on his devastating Civil War march. McElwee was born and raised in Charlotte, N.C., so the trip was to be a kind of homecoming. He had been obsessed with Sherman's legacy since coming North to school and was all set to film a serious documentary about the man whose infamy lives below the Mason-Dixon line. Taking a quick detour in New York to bivouac with his girlfriend, McElwee...
...serves as a useful emissary between the whites and the nearby encampment of Delaware Indians. The local chief has made a treaty of peace, but he may not be able to restrain his warriors. It is 1812, the British are massing on the Canadian border, and the Shawnee chief Tecumseh has called for all Indians to arise against the settlers. Trapped by this turmoil is Lettiece Shipman, a freed slave from Kentucky who had hoped to go to Canada. In the meantime, she does laundry and sells sexual favors to Keene in return for booze, which he prudently waters beforehand...
...failure who saved the Union. Now, at the last, the shabby embarrassment who was also the first genius of industrial warfare made the intimate business of his dying a sort of public spectacle. Grant harbored complications. If he was of all men the typical American, as his friend William Tecumseh Sherman thought, the incendiary of Atlanta also admitted, "I do not understand him, and I do not believe he understands himself." That was the oddness of Grant. In Hannah Arendt's phrase, Adolf Eichmann represented "the banality of evil." In a way, Grant represented the banality of a momentary greatness...