Word: obsessionals
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∙The Last WASP in the World under lines Fiedler's conviction that the basic tone of U.S. creative intellectual life has become Jewish. He takes a poet, fashionable yesterday, hopelessly square today-a gangling, bearded figure of Protestant, romantic, outgoing, Western America-and sticks him in a Jewish...
Ice & Spice. Germans have long been famed for conspicuous consumption, but the first fad in the early years of postwar prosperity was the Fresswelle, or eating vogue. When that first craving for wurst, schnitzel, dumplings and chocolate bars was satisfied, they sank their spare income in the Autowelle, deserting bicycles...
And yet, to be himself, to perpetrate in language "the gestures of a life that is nothing but itself," was Montale's singular obsession. His entire poetic corpus is a relentless meditation on the mystery of the self, on the continuing conversation of the self and the Other, on...
Senator J. William Fulbright is fortunate enough to have been spared the loneliness of combat, the overcolored dreams of love and liberty that help preserve men's sanity in the mind-gnawing dullness of war. And despite his obsession with South Viet Nam, Fulbright has yet to take in...
Sleeping beside the River of Perfumes, the Imperial City of Hué in central Viet Nam seems to have no purpose beyond its past. Once, a century ago, the Nguyen princes ruled nearly all of Viet Nam from their proud palaces with their gardens and lagoons in Hué (pronounced...