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This is a difficult, complex relationship to explain, and if Angelou does explain it, she does not do so nearly as effectively as she portrayed the relationship between the South's social code and Black children in the 30s and 40s. She writes very well, however, of the challenging intimacy between herself and her son, Guy. The rest of Maya's life pales in comparison to the poignancy of the mother-son bond. She ends up a loving and concerned mother but a boring social observer...
...began to retreat from public life to a reclusive existence, publishing her diaries and letters. Last week, Baking a rare public I appearance, the widow of "Lucky Lindy" traveled to Washington to accept the Award for Achievement from the National Aviation Club. "Pilots of the '20s and '30s were a special breed," she recalled. "They wanted to expand life's possibilities to the limits, and their dreams and aspirations, to a large extent, have come true. As my husband said 25 years ago, 'We live today with the dreams of yesterday...
...which will go to his native Cleveland in December, and to Dusseldorf in February 1982) begins, as it were, on Weimar modernism, on the strains, dislocations and terrible urgencies of a time that Kitaj, 48, is too young to have experienced directly-Europe in the '20s and '30s. Gangsters and politicians, clowns and whores, drifting intellectuals and their pale cafe groupies, the doomed, the uprooted, the crushed, the demented-such is the cast of characters. They are imagined and mixed by a mind saturated not only in literature but in fantasies about reading, straying and witnessing...
Nettles felt frisky on the field too. "So many players play into their late 30s and 40s," he said. "I don't see why 37 is too old. People are better athletes than they used to be because of better nutrition and better training. People have to get the age thing out of their minds. Some are old at 28, and some are young...
...naive fable of White Gods and Silver Princes ignores is a much more dramatic interchange than he can see. American architectural ideas, and fantasies about Yankee technology, were distilled and elaborated in Europe, where they contributed to a messianic style. It came back across the Atlantic in the '30s and '40s, and then was academized. Without doubt, the reign of the curtain wall and the spread of a debased sort of rubber-stamp corporate modernism were helped by the factors Wolfe lists: fashion, snobbery, herd instinct and the colonial cringe. Mainly, the glass box won because...