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What ‘The Vicious Circle’ Of Writers Did For The United States
The “lunchtime battle of wits” at the Algonquin Hotel prepared a generation of socially conscious writers (especially the most famous of them all, Dorothy Parker) to take on the forces of isolationism, sexism, and anti-radical prejudice. – The New York Times
How Did The Mueller Report Become A Live-Theatre Sensation?
Well, there’s this: “Mueller report read-a-thons have become acts of civil disobedience, a way for artists to register their discontent by leveraging their most valuable currency: celebrity.” – Los Angeles Times
Martin Parkinson, outgoing PM&C secretary, generation's 'outstanding ..
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The Canberra Times by Daniel Burdon |
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THE retirement of Department of Prime
Minister and Cabinet secretary Dr Martin Parkinson will put an end to one of
the Australian public service's most storied but turbulent careers, while a
former foreign minister has labelled him the most outstanding... |
The Mother Of All Opera Roles
Sure, there are a lot of mothers (or, as The Guardian has it, mums) in opera, but Rosa Mamai inL’arlesiana has a command and power that’s all too rare. – The Guardian (UK)
As The US Moved Into Germany At The End Of WWII, Residents Looted Hitler’s Looted Art Collections
The government of Germany is now – yes, many years after the 1945 looting of art in Munich – making some attempts to recover the stolen and re-stolen art. “It is belatedly reporting the 1945 thefts, painting by painting, to Interpol and to the German Federal Criminal Police Office, and is also listing them on the Art Loss Register and lostart.de, two databases of missing art.” – The New York Times
Hitler liked women, but more as stage decoration than as sources of intimacy and love. There had been talk of numerous liaisons, typically with women much younger than he — in one case a sixteen-year-old named Maria Reiter. One woman, Eva Braun, was twenty-three years his junior and had been an intermittent companion since 1929. So far, however, Hitler’s only all-consuming affair had been with his young niece, Geli Raubal. She was found shot to death in Hitler’s apartment, his revolver nearby. The most likely explanation was suicide, her means of escaping Hitler’s jealous and oppressive affection — his “clammy possessiveness, “as historian Ian Kershaw put it.
