WELL-TRAVELED Thomas Swick he Grand Trunk Road presents a daunting prospect to the cow which wants to cross to the other side; the man who dreams of traveling from one end to the other is...
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Summer reading Suzanne Keen Suzanne Keen writes frequently for Com-monweal and teaches English literature at Washington and Lee University in Lex-ington, Virginia. In this season of...
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Thomas Swick Thomas Swick is the travel editor of the Sun-Sentinel in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and the author of the travel memoir Unquiet Days: At Home in Poland (Ticknor & Fields). I may be the...
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TRAVELS WITH TOM THE PLACE WHERE SOULS ARE BORN A Journey into the American Southwest Thomas Keneally, Introduction by Jan Morris Simon & Schuster, $20, 249 pp. Thomas Swick Here is an...
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BOOKS Critics' choices for Christmas Molly Finn MOLLY FINN, a New Yorker, is the author of three cookbooks. A musician, she sings with Amici Musicale. When not singing, she's reading. 'm...
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A LANGUAGE WE NEVER LEARNED BOHIN MANOR Tadeusz Konwicki Farrar, Straus & Giroux, $19.95, 240 pp. Thomas Swick "No one can have any conception of what boredom really means until he has been to...
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CEAUSESCU'S FOLLY THE RAZING OF ROMANIA'S PAST Dinu C. Giurescu The Preservation Press, $19.95, 210 pp. Thomas Swick This detailing of Romania's architectural treasures and their destruction...
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REPORT FROM EASTERN EUROPE ROMANIA, ROMANIA EATING-CEAUSESCU'S SALAD "Where is Romania?" That is a question I often ask myself as I read articles about the unhappiest corners of the world:...
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