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...their history and their myth. The two have always intertwined, of course, but they differ radically in purpose and content. The myth has always been the engine of the future, a bright and energetic contraption that owed its efficiency to both American know-how and the hand of God. Except in its occasional celebrations of heroic legends, myth does not gaze backward; it is prospective, not retrospective. Being a creation of the Enlightenment, it is even inclined to be contemptuous of history. As Descartes said, historians are people who spend a lifetime attempting to discover facts about Roman life that...
...most impressive thing about The Blues Brothers is its numbers: a budget in the $30 million-$38 million range, a cast of 91, a crew of 191, a stunt team of 78, and the cooperation of nearly every able-bodied Chicagoan except Dave Kingman. Elwood (Aykroyd) and Joliet Jake (Belushi) are out to reunite their band and raise enough money to keep their old parochial school open-and to do it they are willing to turn the Second City into an Indy 500 junkyard. Too rarely, the movie relaxes to let some fine rhythm-and-blues artists (James Brown, Aretha...
...loose from the world and alone, suspended in space." What remains just out of sight is the relentless dilation of every Lindbergh move, the echoes of the kidnaping and murder of the couple's first child, and the inability of the great, silent pilot to make himself understood-except to his wife. In the end, War Within and Without is less history than love story, a testimonial to loyalty and forbearance. Anne concludes: "I write lightly but I do not feel lightly." Nor can any reader, following the progress of two vulnerable souls a world...
...more dismal island when she was 16 and attended school for a year, until her father's death forced her to quit. For the next two years she toured, incongruously, as a chorus girl in musical comedies. A decade later she married and moved to Paris. There, except for a few brief pages, the book ends, barely a third of the way through her life...
...Liebman, professor of Law, said Wednesday it appeared that Bok was "bringing about dean changes after ten years without ever having bound himself to that as a policy, and I think that's a good thing." Since Bok became president in 1971, the deanships at every graduate school except Dentistry have changed hands. Bok has been unavailable for comment since Tuesday...