Biography EssayThe first important fact in the life of Henry James is the wealth of his paternal grandfather, the Irish immigrant William James (1771-1832), who, when he died in Albany, New York, left...
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The American author Henry James (1843-1916) was one of the major novelists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His works deal largely with the impact of Europe and its society on Americans.Henr...
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The first important fact in the life of Henry James is the wealth of his paternal grandfather, the Irish immigrant William James (1771-1832), who, when he died in Albany, New York, left a fortune of $...
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Henry James was a highly self-conscious author with a systematic interest in the techniques of novel writing--an interest that culminated in the landmark prefaces to the New York Edition of his own wo...
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Henry James was one of the most prolific of major American writers, having written more than four million words of fiction and about the same amount of nonfiction; in addition, about fifteen thousand ...
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Traveling often throughout his long and productive life, Henry James wrote fiction and travel literature about Americans in Europe and Europeans in America during the great epoch of transatlantic to...
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Fed officials, wrapping up a two-day meeting on Thursday, are expected to announce that for the eighth consecutive time they will leave the federal funds rate unchanged at 5.25 percent.The Federal ...
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In 1988, a precocious Queens student named Michael Gianaris, a son of Greek immigrants, registered 10,000 Greek-American New Yorkers to vote for the Democratic Presidential campaign of then–M...
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(EDS: ADDING ABE REMARKS IN 2ND, 7TH-11TH GRAFS)
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Tuesday urged his Cabinet ministers
to continue to work in unity as they met in the morning for the first
Cabine...
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A year without a new play by Sir David Hare can’t be all bad—and so it happily proved.
Top of my list is the stunning, imaginative achievement of Gregory Burke...
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Shortly before 4 o'clock on a crisp April afternoon, James Piereson, the executive director of the John M. Olin Foundation, sat in the foundation's sparse conference room in midtown, looking like a...
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Spike Lee’s Inside Man, from a screenplay by Russell Gewirtz, has been so exhaustively excoriated by my esteemed colleague, Rex Reed, in this paper two weeks ago that I hesitated at first to ...
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Spike Lee’s Inside Man, from a screenplay by Russell Gewirtz, has been so exhaustively excoriated by my esteemed colleague, Rex Reed, in this paper two weeks ago that I hesitated at first to...
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While many New York Times readers' eyes were still bulging over Bernard Weinraub's Jan. 30, too-much-information essay about the personal agonies of working in Hollywood, a new reporter was quietly...
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The Reverberator
Henry James
Henry James
Fed not likely to change interest rates
