Gentleman's AgreementIt's always wrong to watch the movie first. (I watched Gentleman's Agreement again 3 weeks ago.) The book is usually so much better. In this case, the movie is really great, The book is so similar, it seems to be a copy. (I read the book because it was on my Kindle.). The boo...
In the shifting social landscape of America in the 1960s, a mother struggles to understand--and accept--her son's homosexuality Tessa Lynn considers herself independent and progressive, a liberated woman of the 1960s. And yet, when she receives a letter from her youngest son, Jeff, informing her ...
On the decks of the Normandie coatless passengers lazed and walked in the warm sunlight of the benign May morning. Lying back in her steamer chair, Vee was acquainting herself with peace again. It was good to be on this great sea, calm and well once more, headed toward the Paris and London she kn...
Two-other studios were rushing out films with world government themes, and Harry Von Brann was no man to trail anybody. Thus, weekends were abandoned for the entire summer by everybody with what Von Brann now called “a civilized employment contract,” and even the Fourth of July was no official ho...
Apart from the paper’s activity, Berkman’s own group had been holding fund-raising “readings” of the manuscript, and at last a specific day could be announced for the book’s appearance next month, in September. But still Fehler gave no sign of triumph, and Ivarin was puzzled. He had little time f...