Steiner's imagination—an imagination doom-haunted, of tragic and cosmic depth, furnished in a manner as personal as Di Chiricho's or Dostoevsky's. First, of the past: he is obsessed by a private...
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TRIUMPH OF THE TECHNOCRATS? The death of the old Europe DAVID LITTLEJOHN AT A TIME when our political attention is divided between continental-sized superpowers on the one hand, monster-countries...
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BOOKS The American Bishops at the First Vatican Council The First Council of the Vatican: The American Experience. By James Hennesey, S.J. Herder and Herder. $6.50. by John Ratte THE publication...
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BOOKS F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Dimension of Greatness The Letters of F. Scott Fitzgerald. Edited by Andrew Turnbull. Scrib-ner's $10. by David Littlejohn THE Fitzgerald Question, the puzzle that...
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Searching for France DAVID LITTLEJOHN THE POPULAR American image of a foreign country (like the popular foreign image of America) is a compound of journalism, historical myth, scraps of...
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A Premature Presentation Capote Collected DAVID L1TTLEJOHN AT THIRTY-EIGHT-late middle age, at least, for a wunderkind-Truman Capote has been Collected, or at least Selected (by himself) in a...
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Cassandra Grown Tired DAVID LITTLEJOHN ROBINSON Jeffers, the doom-shouting Inhumanist did. Thirty-four...
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DAVID LITTLEJOHN To the Wilson Station Edmund Wilson's crusade against cant EDMUND WILSON has been among us very notice-ably now for forty years. He has written on Marxism and the Socialist Idea,...
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violet days of Church liturgy, the desolation of the empty tabernacle. God absent. The churches are strange these holy days. Holy Thursday. Good Friday. Then the Paschal Explosion, the carillons of...
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romances followed from the fact that the odds were overwhelmingly against the action hero. He might solve the mystery, but his revenges and his rescues were rarely complete. Where the typical...
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