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...Marianna De Marco Torgovnick Copyright © 1988 by Duke University Press 1988 Marianna De Marco Torgovnick The Godfather as the World s Most Typical Novel Godfather appeared in March of 1969 and made publishing history: it rose quickly on the best-seller lists and stayed on those lists...

... Marco, The Godfather as the World s Most Typical Novel 329 Wolfe, Alan, Suicide and the Japanese Postmodern: A Postnarrative Paradigm? 571 ...

..., and therefore neither, thing and event that occurs about one minute and Œfty seconds into the original studio recording of James Brown s Get on the Good Foot. 2 Another way to put it is that we re all constantly trying to understand what it is to have been touched by the Godfather. We have to live not only...

... widow and friends his valet, the chief of his ministerial office, and the last chief of the Luftwaffe. The Goering that emerges is a recognizable person, the spoiled and neurotic child of a retired colonial administrator, brought up in a castle loaned to his family by his rich Jewish godfather. From...

... that emerges is a recognizable person, the spoiled and neurotic child of a retired colonial administrator, brought up in a castle loaned to his family by his rich Jewish godfather. From this environment came Hermann s ideas of war and the greatness of Germany; of all of Hitler s paladins, only Goering really...

... Morley. Some Liberals of today could learn much from a Victorian Liberal whose view of the future was inseparably connected with a solid sense of history. Merle M. Bevington. GODFATHER OF DEMOCRACY Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-sided Ameri­ can. Edited by Bernard Mayo. Boston...

..., although they could not, of course, take part in all that happened in his office. The canons of the English Church require that everyone, who does not do so more often, should partake of the Lord s Supper at least three times a year. Whoever does not do that cannot be a godfather, cannot serve as guardian...

... might well learn manners of him. We find him often on friendly personal terms with his political enemies. Lord Cromer, whose Egyptian policy he bitterly at­ tacked, consented to be godfather to Blunt s daughter at her wedding. Even Kitchener, his particular bete noir, spoke well of him on at least one...

... bookshop and at Violet Hunt s parties at South Lodge. Joyce perhaps did not know Ford personally until 1923 or 1924, but since he acted as godfather to Ford s daughter, Julie, I suppose there must have been some slight personal acquaintance. Lawrence of course first met Ford at the offices of the English...

... wrote them. For me, the Mafia was mostly a joke a joke I thought I shared with Italian Ameri­ cans and, after The Godfather and many other books and films, with most Americans too. But for these women, who live and work in or near Man­ hattan, the Mafia is not a joke: it is a stereotype, and one...

... who don’t remember, Jackson was the state of Washington’s “senator from Boeing” and a political godfather of the neo- conservatives. I am at the other pole, permanently. This formulaic centrism means that Obama always will be positioned to the right of most progressives, including myself...

.... Of the magazines examined, Sur of Buenos Aires and the Reper­ torio Americano of Costa Rica devoted the most space to North As the Other Americans See Our Literature 217 American letters. The former was founded under the inspiration of Waldo Frank and he has been a godfather to it. In content it re­ minds one...

... (1946, 1981), The Big Heat (1953), Magnificent Obsession (1954), and The Godfather (1972), each narrative using the car to threaten or destroy romance, domesticity, or reproduction. As these examples and those cited earlier suggest, Mulvey s attempt to anchor gender representation in the gaze...

... as it is further considered by new thinkers. II While the labor theory of value was not the offspring of Marx s own brain, he did nurture it much like a doting godfather. He explained it and re-explained it, gave examples of its workings, looked into its tiniest facets, and worked diligently to make it ab­...

... of a smuggler. His godfather, Fermin Montenegro, has become overseer of Don Pablo Dupont s estate. Fermin has two children, a boy Fermin, who has an excellent position in the Dupont office, and a beautiful daugh­ ter, Maria de la Luz. After Rafael has been wounded in an encounter with the guards and been nursed...

... of responsibility, there are different types and degrees of guilt, such as criminal, moral, and metaphysical guilt. Ernst von Salomon: A Study in Frustrated Conservatism 241 Is Salomon at least a spiritual godfather of the men who caused the Nazi Gotterdammerung? The late Ernst Cassirer believed that the spread...

... officer of the Revolution in the family from whom Afterglow 75 Mrs. Hooper was decended makes one wonder if this relationship was in any way connected with the fact that Cornwallis was quartered for a time at Borough House. Lord Cornwallis was godfather to Edward Cornwallis Moncrieffe. Captain Benjamin...

... to his temperament and his education. His education by the Jesuits was counteracted by the influence of his worldly and pagan godfather, Abbe de Chateauneuf, and by early contact with frivolous society. Thus, he was protected from that religious education which so many freethinkers have found...

... fantasies. (One need only compare The Cotton Club with The Godfather to see what I mean in Coppola s case.) McGann sees analogous phenomena in Romantic literature; one might express his thesis in cinematic terms by saying that the Romantic poets did not always have the right of final cut...

... is the plantation house. Basso discusses some treatments of this symbol in Southern works and goes on to anticipate the importance that later critics would assign to George Washington Cable, whom Basso calls the spiritual godfather of those modem writers who question the aristocratic tradition. Basso further...