Introduction |
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3 | (4) |
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Success (On Jackie Robinson, TV salesman) |
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7 | (2) |
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Fallout (On radioactive debris) |
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9 | (16) |
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Ahab and Nemesis (On Rocky Marciano vs. Archie Moore) |
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25 | (14) |
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Mr. Hunter's Grave (On a Staten Island cemetery) |
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39 | (29) |
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The Cherubs Are Rumbling (On juvenile gangs) |
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68 | (25) |
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PART TWO ARTISTS & ENTERTAINERS |
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93 | (4) |
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The Perfect Glow (On Oscar Hammerstein II) |
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97 | (15) |
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Throw the Little Old Lady Down the Stairs! (On John Huston and the making of The Red Badge of Courage) |
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112 | (24) |
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Humility, Concentration, and Gusto (On Marianne Moore) |
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136 | (23) |
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The Duke in His Domain (On Marlon Brando in Kyoto) |
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159 | (32) |
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A Woman Entering a Taxi in the Rain (On Richard Avedon) |
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191 | (22) |
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PART THREE SHIFTING GROUNDS |
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213 | (4) |
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The Foolish Things of the World (On Dorothy Day) |
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217 | (21) |
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Notes and Comment (On the case against Senator McCarthy) |
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238 | (3) |
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The Psychosemanticist Will See You Now, Mr. Thurber (On fifties jargon) |
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241 | (8) |
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A Meeting in Atlanta (On an NAACP assembly) |
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249 | (19) |
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Letter from Chicago (On the Democratic Convention) |
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268 | (9) |
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Letter from San Francisco (On the Republican Convention) |
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277 | (9) |
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Letter from Washington (On Eisenhower and Little Rock) |
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286 | (9) |
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295 | (4) |
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No One but the Glosters (On a Korean War battle) |
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299 | (9) |
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The Seventeenth of June (On an uprising in East Germany) |
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308 | (21) |
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The Old Boys (On Chiang Kai-shek) |
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329 | (17) |
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Letter from Paris (On the Algerian War) |
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346 | (4) |
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Letter from Gaza (On refugees in the Strip) |
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350 | (8) |
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Cuban Interlude (On Cuba and its rebels) |
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358 | (17) |
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375 | (4) |
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379 | (2) |
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381 | (2) |
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383 | (4) |
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387 | (3) |
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390 | (4) |
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394 | (2) |
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396 | (3) |
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399 | (3) |
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402 | (2) |
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404 | (4) |
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408 | (5) |
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413 | (2) |
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415 | (3) |
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418 | (2) |
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Election Results via Univac |
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420 | (3) |
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423 | (2) |
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425 | (2) |
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427 | (3) |
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Vaccinating Against Polio |
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430 | (2) |
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432 | (4) |
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Rock `n' Roll's Young Enthusiasts |
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436 | (4) |
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440 | (3) |
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443 | (3) |
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446 | (7) |
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453 | (6) |
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The Vision of the Innocent (On The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger) |
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459 | (7) |
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Green on Doting (On Henry Green) |
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466 | (4) |
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Black Man's Burden (On Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison) |
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470 | (5) |
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The Book-of-the-Millennium Club (On Mortimer Adler's Great Books set) |
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475 | (12) |
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Doctor Life and His Guardian Angel (On Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak) |
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487 | (17) |
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Good Tough Stuff (On On the Waterfront) |
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504 | (2) |
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No Sanctuary (On The 400 Blows) |
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506 | (2) |
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Bouquets, Brickbats, and Obituaries (On Guys and Dolls) |
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508 | (2) |
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Something to Remember Us By (On Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) |
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510 | (3) |
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Beep the Meem (On Marcel Marceau) |
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513 | (2) |
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Shaw with Music (On My Fair Lady) |
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515 | (2) |
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Points West (On A Raisin in the Sun) |
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517 | (2) |
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519 | (4) |
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Peeping Funt (On Candid Camera) |
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523 | (2) |
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Bananas in General (On TV comedians) |
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525 | (5) |
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Thoughts on Radio-Televese (On on-the-air language) |
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530 | (4) |
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Extremists (On Jackson Pollock et al) |
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534 | (2) |
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Styles and Personalities (On an Abstract Expressionism show) |
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536 | (3) |
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The Mud Wasps of Manhattan (On tall buildings gone wrong) |
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539 | (5) |
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The Roaring Traffic's Boom (On a congested metropolis) |
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544 | (6) |
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The Lesson of the Master (On the Seagram building) |
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550 | (9) |
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Jazz Records (On Sonny Rollins and Thelonious Monk) |
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559 | (2) |
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Man with a Manner (On Glenn Gould at Carnegie Hall) |
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561 | (2) |
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Jazz Records (On Coleman Hawkins) |
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563 | (8) |
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571 | (3) |
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574 | (1) |
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Frau Bauman, Frau Schmidt, and Frau Schwartze |
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574 | (2) |
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576 | (1) |
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577 | (1) |
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578 | (1) |
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579 | (2) |
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581 | (1) |
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582 | (1) |
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Voices from the Other World |
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583 | (2) |
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Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor |
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585 | (3) |
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Just How Low Can a Highbrow Go When a Highbrow Lowers His Brow? |
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588 | (1) |
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589 | (2) |
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591 | (2) |
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593 | (1) |
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594 | (3) |
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597 | (4) |
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601 | (13) |
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No Place for You, My Love |
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614 | (18) |
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632 | (20) |
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652 | (11) |
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663 | (14) |
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677 | (10) |
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687 | (24) |
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711 | (14) |
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725 | (28) |
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Acknowledgments |
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753 | (2) |
Contributors |
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