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And so do some of the other veterans. Looking through the pages of the 2000 edition, you will find 116 establishments that were recommended in the original guide a hundred years ago. One of these monuments happens to be the Hotel d’Europe in Avignon, not far from us, and we thought it would be interesting to see how it was holding up under the weig

Critics of suburbia, by contrast, worried that its dull uniformity would do corrosive damage to the American psyche. In the words of the American urbanist Lewis Mumford, writing in 1961, suburbia was “a multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses, lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited b

Now I shall speak of evil as none has Spoken before. I loathe such things as jazz; The white-hosed moron torturing a black Bull, rayed with red; abstractist bric-a-brac; Primitivist folk-masks; progressive schools; Music in supermarkets; swimming pools; Brutes, bores, class-conscious Philistines, Freud, Marx, 930 Fake thinkers, puffed-up poets, fra

À dix-sept ans, les Tourelles n'étaient pour moi qu'un nom que j'avais découvert à la fin du livre de Jean Genet, Miracle de la Rose. Il y indiquait les lieux où il avait écrit ce livre : LA SANTÉ. PRISON DES TOURELLES 1943. Lui aussi avait été enfermé là, en qualité de droit commun, peu de temps après le départ de Dora Bruder, et ils auraient pu s

I believe that behind the art and philosophy of our time there is a considerable element of this bottomless ambition and this unnatural hunger; and since in these last words I am touching only lightly on things that would need much larger treatment, I will admit that the rending of the ancient roof of man is probably only a part of such an endless

Somerville, near the Cambridge line. The neighborhood was known as Little Lisbon,