which would include an essay “Farewell to Model T” that first appeared inTheNew Yorkeras “Farewell My Lovely.” For this Nov. 12, 1932 “Notes and Comment” column, it appears White is already pondering his paean to the Model T, contrasting...
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(Read Britannica’s essay “War Stories: 13 Modern Writers Who Served in War.”) Returning to England, Orwell showed a paradoxicallyconservativestrain in writingComing Up for Air(1939), in which he uses the nostalgic recollections of a middle-aged man to examine the decency of a past England...
George Eliot’s next two novels are laid inEnglandat the time of agitation for passage of theReform Bill. In, 3 vol. (1866), she drew the election riot from recollection of one she saw at Nuneaton in December 1832. The initial impulse of the book was not the political theme but the ...
George Marshall was an American film director who, during a career that spanned more than 50 years, proved adept at most genres, with comedies, musicals, and westerns dominating his oeuvre. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film preservation.)
Try Britannica Premium for free and discover more. Subscribe Period of his major works Berkeley’s golden period of authorship followed the revision. InAn Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision(1709), he examined visual distance, magnitude, position, and problems of sight and touch and concluded ...
(Read Britannica’s essay “War Stories: 13 Modern Writers Who Served in War.”) Breakfast of Champions; or, Goodbye Blue Monday! (1973; film 1999)—about a Midwestern businessman who becomes obsessed with Trout’s books—is a commentary on writing, fame, and American social values, intersp...
(Read Sister Wendy’s Britannica essay on viewing art.) Earlier cultural traditions—of tribes, religions, guilds, royal courts, and states—largely controlled the craft, form, imagery, and subject matter of painting and determined its function, whether ritualistic, devotional, decorative, entertaining...
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