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In the days of Cathy Leroy and Michele Ray, girl reporters in Viet Nam seemed to be trying to out-tough Hemingway. Frances FitzGerald's voice is low and her style quiet, though she is known as Frankie. There is even a trace of the debutante she once was...
When the book first appeared in 1940, the Moscow purges and the Hitler-Stalin pact were very much in everyone's mind. It then seemed to some critics either odd or disingenuous of Wilson to close his chronicle just at the moment when the great Communist experiment was about...
The stage history of Antony is almost entirely a lengthy parade of failures. The Festival's only previous involvement with the play, twelve years ago, made the dreadful mistake of importing Robert Ryan and Katherine Hepburn from Hollywood for the title roles. With all the good intentions in the world...
People almost everywhere are living longer than ever before. Because of pestilence, war and famine, plus a dreadful rate of infant and maternal deaths, the ancient Romans survived to an average age of only 22. By the Middle Ages, longevity in Western Europe had risen to 33 years; a century...
"My first printed joke," he recalls, "was in a gossip column. It read: 'Woody Allen says he ate at a restaurant that had O.P.S. prices-over people's salaries.' " Dreadful by any standards, and thus ideal for the likes of Winchell, Ed Sullivan and Earl Wilson, whose...