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Julien Green: The End of a World
On the morning of May 15, 1940, five days after Germany invaded the Netherlands, Belgium, and France—and five days after Winston Churchill became prime minister of the United Kingdom—the French prime minister, Paul Reynaud, called his British ally to tell him that France was lost. Churchill did not believe it was possible.
“Moving and Memorable”
Philip Larkin started writing poems in 1938 when he was fifteen or sixteen and very nearly stopped about ten years before he died at sixty-three. His reputation, during his lifetime, was based almost entirely on three collections published at intervals of approximately ten years: The Less Deceived (1955), The Whitsun Weddings (1964), and High Windows (1974). Together they contain eighty-five poems, all but a few of them under forty lines.
William Byrd Was a Colonial-era Surveyor and Satirist
It was just another wetlands before William Byrd II called this area between Virginia and North Carolina the Great Dismal Swamp. The very name still inspires laughs. An example of what is called a pathetic fallacy, it might have been part of the geography in The Princess Bride, lying somewhere north of the Cliffs of Insanity and a likely habitat for Rodents of Unusual Size.
Paper Trail
Chartered in 1791, during George Washington’s first term as president of the United States, the Massachusetts Historical Society was the brainchild of the Reverend Jeremy Belknap, a Harvard graduate and Congregational minister whose single-minded purpose in life was to document the American experience.
Why Paris?
So why did so many artists flock there from around the world? As a new PBS program called Paris: The Luminous Years asks, “Why Paris?” Another question could be, Why does any great city, with its high rents and low standards of living, attract artists who could paint or write just about anywhere? One answer may be found in an unusual place: a theory of economics first promoted by the urbanist Jane Jacobs.
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