Janet Flanner writes about the American dancer Isadora Duncan’s infamous life and reputation in the arts, and her return to the stage, in France.
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Writing at the height of F.D.R.’s Presidency, in 1935, Frank Sullivan imagines a world where, like Santa Claus, Republicans might not exist.
Short story. He had come back to Watertown to spend Christmas with his family. But they were not entirely the reason for wanting to come home. Before he …
Fiction, from 1944: Mrs. Garden’s lips trembled and she put her hand up to her mouth. “I suppose everyone gets desperate sometimes,” she said.
Part 2 of Janet Flanner’s 1951 Profile of the painter discusses his rise to popularity following the First World War, his series of female figures, and his work on the Chapelle du Rosaire.
REPORTER AT LARGE about the renewal project in South End Boston and about nine members of what was known in that settlement as the Older Adults Group - …