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… We lie on the rocks and enjoy the simpleness of it, Just bodies, not a sister or brother. Old strap welts Pale in the … Baron Wormser, from “Families,” Summer 1984 The competition of life is keenest between those organisms which … Henry Pratt Fairchild, “Battling Impulses,” Fall 1926 This craving to see the ocean again had started, …
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… Depression and on the brink of World War II. Roosevelt points to mentalities of paranoia and fear, to some … Americans’ default to calling those they disagreed with “Communists” and “radicals,” and calls for a return to moral courage and democratic …
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… close friend and a once-famed poet, who had died of a heart attack, paranoid and alone just two years …
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… later included in his Pulitzer Prize-winning collection Complete Poems (Harcourt Brace, 1950). In a letter dated October 11, 1927, Sandburg commended Wilson for the “proud strength” and “Jeffersonian …