Thursday, July 1, 2010

The Pleasures of Reading by Robert Alter

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A distinguished critic rescues literature from the ivory tower and reestablishes reading as a personal source of complex pleasure and insigh...
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Monday, June 28, 2010

Dien Bien Phu by Ted Morgan

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Valley of Death; The Tragedy At Dien Bien Phu That Led America Into The Vietnam War by Ted Morgan; Random House, 2010 In Paris the news...
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We Are Truly Sleepwalking Through History

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"We stand passively mute... and are truly sleepwalking through history.” Senate Remarks by Robert C. Byrd February 12, 2003 To contemp...
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Sunday, June 27, 2010

Intro to Sartor Resartus by Kerry McSweeney and Peter Sabor

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While Thomas Carlyle's Sartor Resartus has little in common with the realistic tradition of verisimilar representation of human situati...
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Robert Alter on Style by Stephen Miller

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Beginning With the Word How the cadences and diction of the King James Bible affected the prose style of American writers. By STEPHEN MILLER...
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Friday, June 25, 2010

The Hearings of Robert Bork

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I spent a lot of time watching the hearing. Bork approached the Committee in his role as a Professor of the Law and was not unwilling to eng...
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All Souls College Election by Hugh Trevor-Roper

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6 July, 1951 Of the election in University College there is little to say. This was partly, of course, because no one is much interested ...
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