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...Gods, the latest offering from the nation's most annoyingly prolific political writer, does not change this gloomy picture. Drury, who struck gold in 1960 with Advise and Consent, a superbly-written Pulitzer Prizewinner about the scandals surrounding a would-be Secretary of State, has never been one to tinker with a good thing. Shrewdly noting that his first book spent two highly profitable years on the New York Times Best Seller List, he spent the next 15 years churning out a seemingly endless series of high-priced sequels, which lacking better titles might just as well have been called...
...little fairy somewhere that falls down dead." He thus upended the truth (people need fairies) and propagated a late Victorian myth (fairies need people) that must have grounded Puck and Ariel. The rest of the century was no kinder. Thanks to Peter Pan's continuing popularity and Disneyfication, Tinker Bell & Co. were ultimately reduced to trademarks or synonyms for homosexuals. The supernatural was obviously not long for this world. Until now. In Kingdoms of Elfin, Author Sylvia Townsend Warner, 83, never condescends to an ethereal race that views mortals as "unfailingly serious and unfailingly absurd." Instead, she talks about...
Ever since John F. Kennedy '40 cultivated his intellectual image by taking the likes of Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38 with him to Washington, Harvard academics have longed for the return of Democratic administration to tinker with national policy...
Warm, Witty. In 1933 Calder and his wife Louisa (a grandniece of William and Henry James) bought an old farmhouse in Roxbury, Conn., which became home for the artist's astonishing fecundity. His Roxbury studio resembled a tinker's shop more than some rive gauche atelier; wire and pliers and corrugated cartons filled with the flotsam of a lifetime lay about in splendid I-know-just-where-it-is disarray. There, and in the house near Tours, France, that he acquired in 1953, the sculptor would lumber about, creating a stage set for Martha Graham, fashioning coffee cups...
There would be no revolutionary changes, no wrenching of Government. He might tinker a little bit, but it would be within the confines of a tight budget...