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...letters he wrote at Yale and as a field artillery officer in France in 1918, a somewhat romantic earnestness begins to mingle with Ivy League wit. Though a little grating in tone, these letters provide some striking glimpses of nineteenth-century consciousness trying to make sense of the monstrous twentieth. "The thunderbolts of the King of Olympus were not more terrible." MacLeish writes, than his first view of modern warfare...
...these years he wrote J. B., the work for which he is best remembered, a verse play based on the story of Job. And in one concurrent letter he states the problem J. B. addresses, an ancient human quandary made even more pressing by the painful events of the twentieth century--"the problem of making sense, making 'justice,' of a world in which men and women and children suffer and die by the millions in holocausts which seemingly take no account of humanity." MacLeish finds the resolution for the play and for himself neither in reason nor in religion...
...number of stores, we noticed a tradeoff between selection and price. For example, Paperback Booksmith carries 10 of the 13 books required for Literature and Arts A-19 "Fiction, Ideology, and Myth: The Novel in the Twentieth Century," but sells nine of them at the same price as the Coop, and one for a dollar more. WordsWorth 2 has only two of the 13 works--The Counterfeiters by Andre' Gide, and The Castle by Franz Kafka--but undersells the Coop by a combined total of $7 for the pair...
...latest film, Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean Jimmy Dean, director Robert Altman weaves these themes into an intricate plot as he depicts the twentieth reunion of the Disciples of James Dean--a small club of James Dean fans--in the one-room Five & Dime in a barren town in Texas. Altman borrows the best qualities from the live theatre of precisely staged movements and vocal patterns and merges them with the best potentials of the cinema--fluid-flashbacks, close-up shots and angular filming. The setting of the tacky small-town corner Five & Dime, with...
...make you a big builder." Later, in the West Bank town of Qalqilya, Dekel showed the contractor a barren hill a mile north of town. He explained that the government controlled 62½ acres there, and would let the contractor have them for $14,000 per acre, about one-twentieth of what the land would cost in the nearby Israeli towns of Kefar Sava and Ra'ananna. He added, "If you will build 250 villas there, we will help you finance the project, and we will develop the area for you." The landscape is stunning, the air clean...