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… Income Disparity Within a Marriage The following post is part … to the limits of digital publishing, but one of the points made in a post over at Gawker really leapt out at me: … And while living this life makes me feel gratitude, I will also always feel extreme, crushing guilt. Last year, I was …
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… (“solidarity”)—tapped into a reservoir of communal memories, memories of more than a century of worker … across a white page, throbbing occasionally to jagged verticals, above which were marked the dates 1944, 1956, 1968, … thousands were injured and hundreds killed as Polish soldiers fired on Polish workers. The memory of that traumatic …
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… it. I fall short as a feminist. I feel like I am not as committed as I need to be, that I am not living up to … (not too slutty, not too prude, show a little leg, ladies), and so on. Good women are charming, polite, and … There seems to be little room for multiple or discordant points of view. Essential feminism has, for example, led to …
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… The Future of University Presses and Journals (A Manifesto) In February 1935, James Monroe Smith, … journals, whatever their history of achievement, when it comes crunch time. In the last decade, Duke University cut … State University sold its press (right down to the name) to commercial publisher Blackwell; Boston University shuttered …
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… After the screening, a retired professor of American Studies and I answered questions. I was told to speak slowly … What is the future of U.S.-European relations?” I was also asked how the United States could win the war on … that literary studies served diplomatic ends, that (in the Commission’s words) “these efforts will lead to better …
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… The Wasteland (1922). In the margins were exclamation points my father had drawn, which were meant to indicate … and support myself by teaching college, because I knew I’d die if I couldn’t write, but I didn’t want to die because I … still spoke and thought highly of her. On October 26, 1775, Wheatley sent a poem and letter to George …