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A FREEZE-OUT by F. Scott Fitzgerald Scott Fitzgerald / El desprecio  Here and there in a sunless corner skulked a little snow under a veil of coal specks, but the men taking down storm windows were laboring in shirt sleeves and the turf was becoming firm underfoot. In the streets, dresses dyed after fruit, leaf and flower emerged from beneath the shed somber skins of animals; now only a few old men wore mousy caps pulled down over their ears. That was the day Forrest Winslow forgot the long fret of the past winter as one forgets inevitable afflictions, sickness,...

s Calvino's NovelsBIOGRAPHY by Gore Vidal Between the end of the Second World War in 1945 and the beginning of the Korean War in 1950, there was a burst of creative activity throughout the American empire as well as in client states of Western Europe. From Auden's Age of Anxiety to Carson McCullers' Reflections in a Golden Eye to Paul Bowles The Sheltering Sky to Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named sire to Tudor's ballets and to Bernstein's enthusiasms, it was n exciting time. The cold war was no more than a nip in the air while the junior senator from Wisconsin was just another genial pol with a drinking problem and...