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Vladimir Nabokov called it "posh-lost," a Russian term he translates as "crude pseudo literature." Thomas Mann called it Death in Venice, perhaps the most celebrated novella of the 20th century.
Political Power. One of their most important points is that massed economic power translates into political power, through the ability of wealthy businessmen to finance campaigns for office.* The big money, they say, flows to candidates who favor retention of the oil-depletion allowance and import quotas on petroleum and...
> The inscription, apparently on a piece of metal from a downed aircraft rather than on rocks, translates from Arabic: "1. Phantom downed by [censored] at 1830 hours on June 30, 1970. M.L. 2. The second Phantom was downed at M.L. at 1509 hours on July 5, 1970. Pilot was taken...
McGuire lived for a while with a Danish girl he had been seeing for three years since meeting her at a summer language course in Vienna. After they married, he started his quixotic last stand at St. John's College. Now the McGuires have returned to Copenhagen, where he translates...
The Primacy of Form: While individual contradictions-"content"-can be re-packaged and assimilated by the system, a structure of contradictions constitutes a practical, revolutionary tool: the dialectical method, which cannot be co-opted since its sole function is the destruction of the ruling order. The most useful revolutionary cinema...