Mary Mccarthy

Birthday Wishes for Betty Daniels: Still Vassar's Cheerleader After 65 Years!

Lonna Saunders | Posted 05.13.2012

Read More: Civil War, Vassar College, Matthew Vassar, Elizabeth Daniels, Betty Daniels, Maria Mitchell, Mary Mccarthy, Charlie McCarthy, Edgar Bergen, Candice Bergen, College News
Lonna Saunders

Happy Birthday, Betty Daniels! Elizabeth Daniels celebrated her 92nd birthday on May 8th, coincidentally "National Teachers Day," and has worked for Vassar College for 65 years, nearly half the existence of that 150-year-old institution.

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Like 'Girls'? You'll Love These Books

The Hairpin | Posted 04.27.2012

Read More: Girls, Marilyn French, Girls Hbo, Books, Judd Apatow, Sylvia Plath, Margaret Atwood, Rickie Solinger, Jeanette Winterson, Mary Mccarthy, Reading, Lena Dunham, Women News

Let's just say there are a lot of articles about Girls. And, if you're like me, it's been making you think a lot about women, and friends, and the cit...

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PHOTOS: Hiroshima: The Original Ground Zero

Adam Harrison Levy | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, September 11, Strategic Bombing Survey, Hiroshima, Mary Mccarthy, Japan, War Photography, World War II, Atomic Bomb, Ground Zero, Photography, Arts News
Adam Harrison Levy

What can a suitcase, found in a pile of garbage, tell us about Hiroshima and its legacy? The suitcase was found eleven years ago by a man who was out...

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Culture Zohn: Louise Bourgeois, Spiderwoman

Patricia Zohn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Goldwater, New School, Lillian Hellman, Guggenheim Museum, Duchamp, Amei Wallach, Louise Bourgeois, Stanley Hater, Museum of Modern Art, Mary Mccarthy, Mondrian, Leger, Arts News
Patricia Zohn

2010-06-16-outsidespider.jpg The French-born but American-in-spirit artist died on May 31 at 98. Her spiders show simultaneous arachno-grace and arachno-fierceness. Her work and person both expressed this artful duality.

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Influences: Angelic and Demonic

Barbara Probst Solomon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jean Malaquais, Jane Austen, Michael Lennon, Zola, Mary Mccarthy, Picasso, Helen Mirren, J.D. Salinger, Aleksandar Hemon, Blanche DuBois, Jill Scott, Jean-Paul Sartre, John Updike, Philip Roth, Humphrey Bogart, Mma Ramotswe, The Three Weissmanns of Westport, Otto Abetz, Saul Bellow, The Beat Generation, Emma Bovary, Sense and Sensibility, Norman Mailer, Dreyfus Affair, Henri Matisse, Marcel Proust, Tolstoy, William Faulkner, Celine, Cathleen Schine, Baudelaire, Petain, Malraux, Huysmans, Stendahl, Simenon, Gides, Dannecker, Flaubert, Laval, Books News
Barbara Probst Solomon

Salinger gave my generation a permission to write about our lives, our very ordinary adolescent times. He gave us our voice, our right to be serious in our own postwar, perhaps over-privileged, tones.

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Mad Men: "The Color Blue" -- HuffPost Review

William Bradley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 1960s, Jon Hamm, Flash Forward, Prison Break, Richard Harris, Jared Harris, New York, Elisabeth Moss, London, Roger Sterling, Lane Pryce, Matthew Weiner, Peyton List, Betty Draper, Don Draper, Marshall Allman, John Slattery, January Jones. Peggy Olsen, Mad Men, Advertising Business, "The Group, Bob Dylan, Mary Mccarthy, " Abigail Spencer, The Singing Nun, Suzanne Farrell, Entertainment News
William Bradley

Last night's "The Color Blue" was a cracking good episode that, after last week's rushed and rather arbitrary plot developments, returned Mad Men to its strongest ground.

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Mary McCarthy in Vietnam, Barack Obama in Afghanistan

William J. Astore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vietnam, Mary Mccarthy, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, World News
William J. Astore

Cross-posted from TomDispatch.com In 1967, outraged by the course of the Vietnam War, as well as her country's role in prolonging and worsening it, M...

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