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Kubek's essay is a transplanted period piece, but Belfrage's book is no less dated. Editor of the National Guardian and a British citizen, Belfrage was deported from the United States in 1955. He has now written a detailed but superficial chronicle of the persecution of American radicals--whom...
He based his precise location on what seemed to be large stone walk-ways leading from the rivers, similar to those built by the Northmen in Iceland and Greenland. Those stones were pushed aside for highways in the 1940s and have never been dated. Perhaps this is a sinister plot...
For their formal entertaining, the Kissingers have, after the White House, the most elegant suite in the capital-the State Department's Madison Room, which is furnished with American antiques. But vast embassy receptions and cocktail parties are not really Nancy's style. "I'd fall over...
The chronological ordering is at times confusing as well as ridiculous. For example, Blotner opens the description of the writing of Absalom, Absalom! in 1935 in his usual meticulous way: "On March 30 he had taken a sheet of paper with printed margins and written at the top, in blue...
BEACH'S OTHER reactions to the situation included staring at walls and going to desperate parties. Which was the greater waste of time was a toss-up. Staring at walls had no bad after-effects, but it was also a little difficult to justify to other people. Harvard students generally...