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Tim Cavanaugh | August 25, 2005

Michael Young takes a fresh look at Anthony Powell's Dance To the Music of Time, and shows how and why Powell ignored the rise of the good ol' USA.

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|8.25.05 @ 4:34PM|#

I prefer dancing to the music of Newsweek.

|8.25.05 @ 8:57PM|#

Why is it called a "cycle" of novels, operas, etc. when they in fact tell a story from beginning to end, or at least more or less linearly forward in time? Shouldn't a cycle wind up where it started?

|8.25.05 @ 9:42PM|#

'the rise of facism in england' ? Culminating in Margaret Thatcher?

I just read 'Jude the Obscure' -- only one mention of America, so it must be crap.

|8.27.05 @ 6:37AM|#

American self-importance is really second to none, as is your sense of entitlement to be held in high esteem by the whole world.

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