Classroom camaraderie: Longtime friends teach at Hubert Nov 19, 2009
Increasing their comfort zone is the fact that Mary McCarthy is principal of Hubert Kindergarten. The former Mary Hansberry was their homeroom teacher at Hudson High School when they first met in 1973. (Hudson Sun, MA)
The Fifty-Year War Nov 18, 2009
In 1965 and 1966, on the eve of the great public protests of 1967 and 1968, antiwar commentators such as Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, I.F. Stone, Mary McCarthy and Walter Lippmann defied the conventional wisdom emanating from the government. They articulated the realities reiterated above, as well as others. (CBS News -- Opinion)
Tough guys don't need to dance Oct 14, 2009
Not the free-thinkers, not today's equivalents of Mary McCarthy or Norman Mailer. Instead, he's doubtless listening to the generals and admirals, or the former generals and admirals who now occupy prominent "civilian" positions at the White House and inside the Beltway. (Asia Times Online)
Farewell to the Godfather Sep 21, 2009
According to , Irving Kristol once felt intimidated among New York intellectuals when he found himself seated with Mary McCarthy on one side, Hannah Arendt on the other, and Diana Trilling across from him. This standardof intellect, to say nothing of other allureswas very much relaxed by the time he found himself placed next to me at a dinner at the Lehrman Institute in Manhattan in the mid-1980s. (Slate)
Why Vogue Continues to Disappoint Me Sep 12, 2009
In 1950 Mary McCarthy called it out on its aristocratic condescension. Gay Talese once wrote that the women of Vogue speak in italics and swear in French. (Slate)
'At The Movies' Names Two New Co-Hosts - A.O. Scott and Michael Phillips Aug 6, 2009
He served on the editorial staffs of The New York Review of Books and Lingua Franca, and has edited A Bolt From the Blue, a collection of essays by Mary McCarthy. Born in Massachusetts, Tony graduated from Classical High School in Providence, RI and received a bachelor of arts degree in literature from Harvard and a master of arts degree in English from Johns Hopkins. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
THE VENUS FIXERS: Aug 2, 2009
From the Ponte Vecchio, the city's most famous landmark, you can admire Santa Trinita's three strangely shaped but elegant arches, which, as Mary McCarthy noted in "The Stones of Florence," conform to "no known lines or figures in geometry" and may well have been drawn, free hand, by Michelangelo. But had you looked for the bridge on August 4, 1944, all you would have found was a pile of rubble sinking into the Arno. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Dwight Macdonald, America's Orwell Jul 17, 2009
Politics made no money, its payments to contributors were laughable he charmed Mary McCarthy into writing for free and it never had more than 5,000 subscribers; but it published Orwell, Camus, C. Wright Mills, and Simone Weil, as well as The Group s future author. After Politics, he gave us his most devastating literary articles, originally printed in Partisan Review, Commentary, and the New Yorker but afterwards assembled in Against the American Grain and Discriminations. (The American Conservative)
CAMILLE PAGLIA Jul 5, 2009
Plus: Readers ask about everything from talk radio, morality and Mary McCarthy, to that big movie about a sinking ship ... Plus: Buxom foodies, frocks for the ages, and the eternal appeal of Mary McCarthy and Justin Timberlake. (The Drudge Report)
In Rakoff’s post-9/11 world, Generation Y grapples with aging Jun 27, 2009
Much like Jay McInerney s Bright Lights, Big City and Mary McCarthy s The Group, Joanna Smith Rakoff s novel focuses on a group of intelligent, idealistic young people newly graduated from elite colleges trying to make lives for themselves in the big city. Rakoff s debut has a decidedly autobiographical slant. (Boston Globe)
COLUMN: Waterboarding or your next boring staff meeting at work: You choose May 12, 2009
The Question wrote on May 11, 2009 8:53 PM:" Harry, to paraphrase Mary McCarthy, everything Cheney says is a lie, including "and" and "the. " ". (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
'A Fortunate Age' invites unfortunate comparisons May 5, 2009
Rakoff's debut novel, A Fortunate Age, is an homage of sorts to another member of that cerebral chick-lit clique: Mary McCarthy, specifically The Group, her 1963 study of Vassar grads in 1930s New York. (Rakoff name-drops McCarthy by page 4. (USA Today -- Life)
Local calendar April 30 edition Apr 29, 2009
Holiday Inn, 4 Highwood Drive, Tewksbury, Saturday, May 2, 10 a.m. Inspirational speaker Mary McCarthy. $16. (Wilmington Advocate, MA)
PAGLIA: Obama's painful missteps; Bowing to king of Saudi Arabia?!? Apr 8, 2009
Plus: Readers ask about everything from talk radio, morality and Mary McCarthy, to that big movie about a sinking ship. By Camille Paglia. (The Drudge Report)
Popular... and principled Mar 13, 2009
Enjoying an after-meeting hug are, left to right, group members Nikkie Huynh, Alissa Erico, Gabriella DeFraia, Alex Movessian, Erin Kimmelman, Mary McCarthy, Jacky Mosko and Christiana Gianetta ... Mary McCarthy, 12, adds that she has shared some of the group s lessons with another friend who sometimes gets bullied by boys in her class. (Woburn Advocate, MA)
Plays author to visit LWLT show Mar 12, 2009
She is the author of two books, Uncommon Women , interviews with nine American legends in the arts: Gwendolyn Brooks, Sarah Caldwell, Julie Harris, Mary McCarthy, Alice Neel, Roberta Peters, Maria Tallchief, Mary Lou Williams and Eugenia Zukerman, photographed by George Kufrin; and the biography, Leo Burnett, Star Reacher. She was also a contributor to the book How Peace Came to the World published by MIT Press. (Lake Wales News, FL)
