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...prose. And a readable biography was Damrosch’s goal. His main concern, he says, was to make Rousseau available to people who know nothing about him, rather than to do original research. “Reviewers and publishers make something of a fetish of ‘hitherto unpublished material,’” he says. For Rousseau and many other obsessively researched historical figures, new facts are unlikely ever to come to light; but this doesn’t deter Damrosch. The best biographies, he says, are “reinterpretations...
...will no longer enjoy an obvious advantage of access when compared to other countries. As local students in many developing countries are granted access, physically studying in America, while still advantageous, becomes less so. In this situation, it is also more likely that underprivileged academicians—hitherto without access to Western libraries— will produce more world-class research...
...newly accessible, and there's a new drive to get him right. "We really are in a renaissance of Lincoln literature," notes Harold Holzer, a co-chairman of the Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission. "All of the classic works are being updated and improved upon. All the great themes that hitherto we thought had been dealt with definitively are being re-explored." In popular culture too, there is a Lincoln boom: in April a $150 million Lincoln library and museum complex opened in Springfield, Ill. Steven Spielberg has cast Liam Neeson to star in the first feature film on Lincoln since...
...head and carted away after repeatedly insisting he is not dead yet.) Not Dead Yet exposes important biases in the “right to die” movement, including the fact that as early as 1988, Jack Kevorkian advertised his intention of performing medical experimentation (“hitherto conducted on rats”) on living children with spina bifida, at the same time harvesting their organs for reuse...
...inquiring reader of 1982 the comparative calm of the Lindbergh Case last week was important. The scum of early reportorial confusion--result of keen newspaper competition and official impatience with the Press--had begun to be skimmed off the story. Facts hitherto obscured by haste and hysteria were clear. Also, it began to seem as though trails to the solution were converging...