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February 26, 2010
Blog: Page-Turner

In the News: Dead Teens Talking, Scarpetta Scandal

What's with all these dead teen narrators? Over a century after it was stolen from the Institut de France, a letter written by Descartes has turned up at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. Our bookshelves, ourselves?...
October 26, 1957
Letter from Amsterdam

LETTER FROM AMSTERDAM

Article about Amsterdam in general. Tells about the canals, the bicycles, and the housing problem. With more than 10 million people crowded into about 13,000 sq. miles, Holland is the most densely populated country in the world. Some 5,000 people live on houseboats moored in the canals of the city…
May 05, 1956
Poetry

Clerihews

Of Gibbon (the old prude Who left footnotes in Latin because they…
March 16, 1946
The Talk of the Town

Existentialist

Talk story about Jean-Paul Sartre, the foremost French dramatist of the war years and the father of a new way of looking at the world, known as Existentialism. He was lecturing under the auspices of "View" a local intellectual review. He enjoys being able to go about N.Y. unmolested…
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