Crass Middle-Class Values Are What Made the Modern World

“There were big, economically vibrant cities filled with smart people all around the globe – so why did the Industrial Revolution hit Europe and America first? According to [Deirdre] McCloskey, it was only there that what she calls the ‘bourgeois revaluation’ persuaded ordinary people not only that they could be entrepreneurs, but also that their neighbors would respect them for it.”

Actress Susannah York, 72

“Her international reputation as an actor depended heavily on the hit films she made in the 1960s, including Tom Jones (1963) and They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969, for which she received an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress). But, even when her movie career waned, she worked ceaselessly in theatre, often appearing in pioneering fringe productions.”

‘The Most Spectacular Crime in American Literary History’

“Thankfully, few fictional representations are so offensive to their (reputed) models that actual violence ensues. The notable exception … took place 100 years ago this month when Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough expressed his supreme displeasure with what he believed was the depiction of his family in the novel The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig by pumping six bullets into its author.”