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Cather herself wrote in a 1940 letter that, in James Woodress’s paraphrase, “she had known Myra’s real-life model very well, and the portrait drawn in the story was much as she remembered her”; Cather also added that the woman had died fifteen years before My Mortal Enemy was ...
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The conductor’s daughter, Lotte Klemperer (1923–2003), would serve as her father’s secretary, negotiator and administrator until his death in 1973. Otto’s son, Werner Klemperer (1920–2000), would become a stage, screen and television actor, most notably portraying Colonel Klink in the ...
For many years, scholars have regarded My Mortal Enemy as somewhat of anenigma. Written in only a few months during the early spring of 1925 and published in 1926, Willa Cather’s shortest novel was sandwiched in between The Professor’s House (1925) and Death Comes for the Archbishop (192...
From my post-parole hearing “research” (thank you, Google), I learned that Sirhan’s mother believed he was traumatized in childhood by the Israeli-Arab conflict and by his brother’s death, which was caused when a military vehicle swerved to avoid gunfire, and that in 1989, the New ...
A CRIMINAL CASE…Cass Gilbert’sFederal Courthouse building (United States courthouse) was completed in 1936, two years after Gilbert’s death. In 2001 it was designated as the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse. CriticLewis Mumfordcalled the design, which combined “two unlovely and unrelate...
one's actions could bring death or damage to others.A minority of the killers go even far beyond carelessness that can be imagined. Researchers have estimated that as many as 80 percent of all automobile accidents can be attributed to the psychological condition of the driver.Emotional upsets ca...
was fighting the civil war in England which led to his execution. Charles II tried to take the throne after his father’s death but failed and continued to live in exile until after Cromwell’s death. Once he became king, we’ll just say he got along with Parliament better than his fat...
WillaCathercapturedthissocialsituationandmadethemconcreteenoughtobeembodiedinthedevelopmentoftheheroine,TheaKronborg,withtheaimtoarousepeople’sreflectiononmodernspirituallife.Thea’sinitiationandprogress,therefore,metaphoricallyrevealsAmericanpeople’sjourneyfromautonomytosocialization,fromperplexitytoprosperity,frominnocence...