Grant Takes Command in Third Volume Review
Bruce Catton’s third volume on Ulysses S. Grant traces his August 1864 push against Lee, detailing logistics, politics, and key generals. The piece notes Grant’s ascent to lieutenant general, his ties to Lincoln and Julia, and Catton’s sympathetic portrait amid a war of massive sacrifices.
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Grant
Bruce Catton
Brown
Vicksburg
Gettysburg
Chattanooga
Wilderness
Spotsylvania
Cold Harbor
Petersburg
Virginia
Potomac
Lee
Halleck
Butler
Greeley
McClellan
Catton
Lincoln
Sherman
Atlanta
Sea
Sheridan
Thomas
Hood
Appomattox
Julia
America
Boston Adams
H. L. Mencken
Lloyd Lewis
Sam Grant
Thomas Nast
Garibaldi
Gertrude Stein
Lewis
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Contemporary and classical arts events in Lorain Oberlin Elyria March schedule
The cultural calendar lists drama, art, music, film and poetry events across Lorain County Community College Allen Art Museum Oberlin College Lorain Public Library Elyria Public Library and Warner and Finney venues. Highlights include Slow Dance on the Killing Ground at LCCC, Ashes and Diamonds and Sunrise films, Cleveland Orchestra recital, Oberlin Chamber Orchestra and Hail Stones and Halibut Bones for children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lorain County Community College
Great Britain
Allen Art Museum
Oberlin
Elyria Public Schools
Elyria Public Library
Julius Held
Richard Kapuscinski
Warner Concert Hall
Oberlin College
Hall Auditorium
Cleveland Orchestra
Louis Lane
Christoph Eschenbach
Finney Chapel
Paul Roche
Eugene Redmond
Oberlin Chamber Orchestra
Robert Baustian
Guns OF Navarone
Ireland
Scheide
Serendipity
Elyria
Children’s Theater
Children’s Library
Allen Auditorium
Ravi Shankar Book and Life Illuminates Sitar Art
A high profile publisher release displays Ravi Shankar's My Life My Music as a two form edition from Simon and Schuster. The review highlights Shankar's deep discipline, cross cultural synthesis, and pivotal role in Indian Western musical exchange. It notes his early life with Uday Shankar and the enduring influence of Western exposure on his performances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ravi Shankar
Simon and Schuster
Itimate
New York
Philharmonic Hall
Shankar
Ravi
Uday
Anna Pavlova
S. Hurek
Yehudi Menuhin
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Bart joins Sinatra Berlin as nonreading composer
Irving Kolodin notes Lionel Bart, creator of Oliver! and its book, cannot read music yet proves a pivotal musical talent alongside Frank Sinatra and Irving Berlin. Bart’s career spans Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be, Tommy Steele works, and Oliver! with award-winning Ivor Novello honors as his influence grows in the early 1960s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Sinatra
Irving Berlin
Ezio Pinza
Lionel Bart
Berlin
Them
Pinza
London
East End
Bart
Lionel Begleiter
St. Martin’s School of Art
Tommy Steele
Steele
BBC TV
British Songwriters Guild
Noel Coward
Apple Records
Irving Kolodin
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Young readers learn fantasy and sculpture in select children's books
Mary Chase's The Wicked Pigeon La Dies In the Garden introduces Maureen a disobedient girl who meets seven Messerman sisters in a time bending fantasy. Looking at Sculpture by Roberta M Paine surveys sculpture forms and media with glossary notes and museum examples for ages 9 to 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Chase
Don Bolognese
Knopf
Maureen
Messerman House
Messerman
Roberta M. Paine
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Roberta Paine
Metropolitan Museum
Tokyo Passport Applications Rise 25 Percent in 1968
Japanese officials report that one in a hundred Tokyo residents sought a passport in 1968, up 25 percent from 1967. Most applicants traveled for pleasure, including trips to the Mexico City Olympics. Tokyo’s population is about 11 million and passport applications reached 140,615 in 1968.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Junyu
UPL
Tokyo
Govern
Review Roundup: Murphy and Kinross among new books
A quartet of recent releases is examined including The Mountain Lion by Robert Murphy set in Arizona, TheTreasures of the Pharaohs by Jean Yoyotte with 120 plates, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte in Ultratype edition, and Between Two Seal by Lord Kinross tracing the Suez Canal history. Additional titles include My Lively Lady by Alec Rose and related sailing feats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Yoyotte
Skira — World Publishing Co
Egypt
Skira
Nefertiti
Berlin
Charlotte Bronte
Franklin Watts, Inc
Lord Kinross
William Morrow & Co
Suez Canal
Cape of Good Hope
de Lesseps
Disraeli
Suez Canal Co
Britain
Egypta
Canal
Port Said
Verdi
Sir Alec Rose
David McKay Co
Moon
Earth
Francis Drake
Cape Horn
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Sitarists Book ‘Illuminating
Uday Shankar
Sitar
Young People's Books
Robert Murphy
Dutton
Leeta
Arizona
Murphy
Theodore A. Xaras
Pire
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Mediterranean
Red Sea
France
East
India
House of Commons
Francis Chichester
Alec Rose
Chichester
Rose
Plymouth
Atlantic
New Zealand
Theodore Z. Xaras
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