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Goodnight, Vienna…
Goodnight, Vienna… STODDARD MARTIN reads a redolent dramatized account of an Austrian family’s 20th century tribulations Edmund de Waal had a succès d’estime a few years back with his family memoir The Hare with the Amber Eyes. His Ephrussi forbears, … Continue reading
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Tagged Edmund de Waal, Elisabeth de Waal, Gore Vidal, Stoddard Martin, The Exiles Return, Third Man, Vienna
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Twentieth century sociology – made (mostly) in America
Twentieth century sociology – made (mostly) in America STODDARD MARTIN traces the American origins of European social research Transatlantic History of the Social Sciences: Robber Barons, the Third Reich and the Invention of Empirical Social Research Christian Fleck (2007), trans. … Continue reading
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Tagged Adorno, American Jewish Congress, Carnegie Foundation, Christian Fleck, Daniel Bell, Elias Canetti, Erich Fromm, Frances Stonor Saunders, Friedrich Pollock, Gallup, Horkheimer, Lazarfield, Marcuse, Max Planck, Rockefeller Foundation, Stoddard Martin, Transatlantic History of the Social Sciences, Trilateral Commission
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Gabriele D’Annunzio – flame of the former future
Gabriele D’Annunzio – flame of the former future STODDARD MARTIN remembers the extravagant life and dangerous times of one of Italy’s literary giants When living in lascivious pleasure in post-Napoleonic Italy, Byron wrote to his publisher, “Scribbling is a disease … Continue reading
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Tagged Fiume, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Hemingway, Henry James, Ilana Mercer, Joyce, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Piave, Proust, Stoddard Martin, The Pike, Yeats
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Stefan Zweig – yesterday’s man
Stefan Zweig – yesterday’s man STODDARD MARTIN reviews a life of the aesthete and belletrist Three Lives: A Biography of Stefan Zweig Oliver Matuschek (2006), tr. Allan Blunden, Pushkin, £20 The fall of Hapsburg civilization was a catastrophe for some; … Continue reading
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Tagged Das Lamm des Armen, Fouche, Hapsburgs, Jeremias, Marie Antoinette, Oliver Matuschek, Stefan Zweig, Stoddard Martin, Ungeduld des Herzens, Vienna
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