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Nineteenth century travel photographers used chemicals and light to catch distant realities upon a collodion wet plate and bear them home in velvet-lined boxes to London or New York. It was a cumbersome wizardry that they practiced, lumbering across Mexico or Africa in darkroom wagons. In desert heat they...
And yet sometimes we harbor a subversive suspicion that it doesn't really matter. Once, we think, we were a people of the book. Now we begin to seem, perhaps irreparably, a people of the tube. The race of literary giants, the tyrant genius founders (Homer, Tolstoi, Flaubert, Joyce...
Among many other things. Edward Hoagland '54 knows juneberries. Moreover, he writes about them and about others of the curios of creation, whether of the natural world or of the more inorganic human one in that hard to define genre of the personal essay. His field of vision is broad...
The production focuses on the very characters modern readers of Nicholas Nickleby find to be pasteboard cliches of middle-class sentimentality: noble Nicholas, snow-white Kate, wounded faun Smike?and makes their stodgy virtues real and comprehensible. It renounces the fey modernism of camp; it takes a stand, grows tall...
In preparing the story, TIME correspondents worked sources on both sides of the Atlantic. In London, James Shepherd surveyed the booming business in royal curios and souvenirs, Arthur White interviewed Elizabeth and David Emanuel, who are designing Diana's wedding gown. Boston Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand researched the American roots...