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… Of Flight and Life Anne Morrow Lindbergh’s Journals and Correspondence Not only did Anne Morrow Lindbergh … as well as the world within. Her gift in both was for communication, and her writings touch readers deeply to … vivid, poignant, perceptive, and often delightful pieces of communication, each directed, in its own way, toward a …
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… literary programs, The Big Read and Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience . But this is what … is at stake. While Gioia came from General Foods, he also came from the old school of literature and poetry. When … at the NEA, the staff book club read The Odyssey at his recommendation, rather than the work of living, breathing (and …
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… he called it? Am I really in Mannahatta? I could not have come to America without Whitman. Now that would be an odd … populous democracy, and in India, returning after my studies in England, I read Whitman again. In me are the … seemed bland, colorless next to the room of intricate murals I had just passed through, the far wall filled to …
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… it in the Christian Examiner in 1828, he’ll remind his audience how much this strange, homespun work once meant to … that was hawked about the country, printed on sheets like common ballads,” and it presented, in language often … (“Regard not then if wit be Old or New / But blame the False , and value still the True ”), Pope hews to the …
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… celebrity exploded in the last decade of his life; fans may come to this book unaware that it is merely the last in a … I’m Your Man. There is the World War I–vet father who dies when Breavman is nine, and the anecdote in which … balladeer, a sensitive, pacifist type. The main website devoted to Cohenania, Cohencentric, lists the three …
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… the footsteps, bouncing balls, and carts from the nearby commercial street—the sound emerges: a high-pitched murmur, … most first-time visitors to the medina assume that the medieval urban nucleus expanded in a haphazard fashion. In … houses are owned primarily by foreigners, and laid-back Chefchaouen, the marijuana and backpacker capital of the Rif. …