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...next morning. Thus pass strings of small cities: Harlingen, McAllen, Corpus Christi; Pueblo, Albuquerque, El Paso. Four months into the tour, everyone is tired, everyone feels cut adrift, almost everyone suffers from a cough known as the "bus crud." The play, coincidentally, is a musical confection, On the Twentieth Century, about the giddy, romantic life of theatrical types traveling cross-country...
...late twentieth century, however, the whole reality issue has become virtually fossilized. It is surprising, then, to discover that in The Day Room playwright Don DeLillo has managed to extract some delightfully fresh material from such an overworked vein...
Journalist Phillip Knightley prefers his legends lightly tarnished. An earlier book, The First Casualty: From the Crimea to Vietnam: The War Correspondent as Hero, Propagandist, and Myth Maker, removed the romantic luster from combat journalism. The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century is a pickling look at the romantic past and bureaucratic present of the flourishing espionage business...
...left of center, but they have made a show of evenhandedness in presenting their research. In the depths of their Washington buildings, ideas simmered until they percolated into books and monographs that laid the foundation for legislation. "These groups," says James A. Smith, a historian at the Twentieth Century Fund in Manhattan who is writing a book on public-policy organizations, "were inspired by the belief that people of divergent political viewpoints and interests could get together, discuss the facts and reach some kind of policy consensus...
Hemingway was mourned mostly as a great celebrity, his worst side, and not as a great writer, which he was. The Louisville Courier-Journal wrote in an editorial: "It is almost as though the Twentieth Century itself has come to a sudden, violent, and premature end." He was a genius of self-proclamation. He made himself a representative hero. The adjectives he used did not so much describe as evaluate and tell the reader how to react: things were fine and good and true or lovely or wonderful, or else bad, in varying degrees. As the scholar Harry Levin...