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Thursday, September 20, 2007

'ON THE ROAD' IS 50: The Scroll

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Left: The British edition of 'On The Road: The Original Scroll' by Jack Kerouac. Edited by Howard Cunnell. [Penguin Classics. £25.00...
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ON THE ROAD IS 50: Critics, Movie, Lost Play, Estate

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( Left): Read the very first review of 'On The Road' in the New York Times (Sept 5th, 1957) by Gilbert Millstein. It's a crac...
Wednesday, September 19, 2007

'ON THE ROAD' IS 50: A Digital Moment

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I thought wouldn't it be good to reread 'On The Road' and draw a detailed pencil map of the journey as I went along and use this...
Friday, September 14, 2007

A LIFE MEASURED OUT IN BOOKS

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(Left): 'A Pound of Paper' by John Baxter [Ted Smart. London. 2002]. Jacket illustration by Jackie Parson. Best known for his string...
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MANGUEL AND BORGES

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Alberto Manguel's 'A Reading Diary' [Canongate Books. Edinburgh. 2004] has rapidly and recently become one of my favourite books...

LARSEN, MISHIMA & ČAPEK

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Everyone loves a pirate tale, witness the massive global boffo box office recption for Johnny Depp's 'Pirate of the Caribbean' s...
Sunday, September 09, 2007

STAR WARS TO NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE

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An Investigation by The Generalist 'The missile-defence debate, dormant since Ronald Reagan’s "Star Wars", was revived in...
Friday, September 07, 2007

STAR WARS TO OUR WARS: INTRO

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The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) was proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983 to use ground-based and space-based ...

STAR WARS TO OUR WARS: The Achilles Heel

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Reagan had assembled a large committee of eminent scientists to advise him on Star Wars. One of them very publicly resigned. He was the man ...

STAR WARS TO OUR WARS: Letters to The Times

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Eleven days before I met Parnas, The Times a top-of-the-page opinion piece by Lord Chalfont, entitled 'Star Wars: the high cost of stayi...

NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE: Background

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Under the administration of President Bill Clinton in 1993, the Strategic Defence Initiative (SDI) programme was renamed first as the Bal...

NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE: Czech Reaction

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'One leg of the journey [around the Czech Republic] has seen me beetling through deepest Bohemian countryside, for a meeting with a man ...