"Machismo got a bad name starting with the feminist movement, where it was used to label male behavior that women found offensive," the novelist Robert B. Parker once told Amanda Smith in a Publisher's Weekly interview. "But if you called it a commitment...

All our yesterdays The Cambridge history of twentieth-century music Edited by Nicholas Cook & Anthony Pople Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, 2004); xviii, 818pp; £100, $160. ISBN 0 521 662567. THE Cambridge history of twentieth-century music is the latest and, presumably for the next...

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