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Shadow & Substance. For 2½ months Dorothy Gutheridge lived a haunted life. "I couldn't sleep at night," she remembers. "I just stared at the ceiling." Worst of all were the frequent occasions on which she had to use her car. "When I drove at night," she said last...
In 1946 the Progressive Party disintegrated, and La Follette returned to a hostile Republican fold. A few months later, after 21 years, he was unseated by an upstart named Joe McCarthy. He had been too absorbed in his work on the Congressional Reorganization Act to go home and campaign until...
Both amendment and ratification hinge on the settlement of one key issue. While Italy and the Benelux nations look on, France and Germany are fighting an epilogue to the Second World War. Haunted by visions of a new German militarism, the French demand a series of protocols which will assure...
Tradition has not been abandoned entirely. Wan and weary maidens still linger at the scene of their betrayal. Here & there a lonely house still groans with memories of ancient wrongs-though in one story the trouble is that the house is not haunted, which creates an unhappy state of "psychic...
Perhaps best of all is V. S. Pritchett's thoroughly lighthearted, thoroughly post-Freud A Story of Don Juan, which tells how Don Juan once visited Quintero, a man whose wife had died on their wedding night. To punish Juan for his sins, Quintero tucks him into the haunted...