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The Americans," Walt Whitman wrote in the 1850s, "are going to be the most fluent and melodious-voiced people in the world, and the most perfect users of words." The line was more hopeful than prophetic. Today, many believe that the American language has lost not only its melody but...
The Moslem conception of paradise made an ideal recruiting device. An account written by Marco Polo reported that Hasan educated the Fida'is to believe every conceivable bodily pleasure awaited them after death. As a foretaste, he had them heavily drugged and transported to magnificent gardens constructed near his...
Jaws, which opens in 490 theaters this week, is part of a bracing revival of high adventure films and thrillers over the past few months (see box page 44). It is expensive ($8 million), elaborate, technically intricate and wonderfully crafted, a movie whose every shock is a devastating surprise. Like...
During the time chronicled in these notebooks (expertly edited by Leon Edel), Wilson was merely Bunny Wilson, a bright, pompous young writer among other writers in Greenwich Village. He supported himself with work at Vanity Fair, where the staff sometimes played a game with the secretaries called "The Rape of...
One woman, caught between a bus and the building when a shell burst, was carried inside unconscious, but only from fright. A European walked down the line asking everybody to sign a 500-piaster note he wanted to keep as a souvenir. Sister Fidema of the Good Shepherd Convent in...