Writer
Diana R. Laing
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Depression and War Left Their Marks
A Radcliffe education doesn't teach you how to do anything but it teaches you how to do anything but is
A Surrealist's Metamorphosis
T HE SPRING OF 1920 was a hard time for Joan Miro. The young Catalan had arrived in Paris from
Benares on the Charles
"Enthusiasm: Possession by a god, supernational inspiration, prophetic or poetic ecstasy..." The Oxford Universal Dictionary T HE ONLY THING that
Anthropological Soma Cubes
M ONTAIGNE once commented that the clever are usually the least reliable observers of curious customs and events. They interpret
After First Impressions...
At the Rolly-Michaux Gallery Through November 26 "An official whom I'd heard of as the Flemish patron-of-the-arts was showing me
Psychic Profiteering
S KEPTICISM, LIKE PENICILLIN, is in trouble these days. Certainty grows apace. A man in Detroit may momentarily capture national
Strangers in the Night
W ALKING THE STREETS on a rainy Sunday night in October, everyone but you is taking care of business, old
Trash
H OW COULD a Berkowitz kill a Moskowitz?" the interviewer asks Shelley Duvall as they find their table in a
Sherry and Schopenhauer
"Poetry has saints. He was not of them. His death was his best poem, and Crosby, dead Shall live in
Carnival Beside the Arctic Ocean
Newbury Street on the first sunny day in a week has almost a carnival atmosphere. No cotton candy or ferris