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… address framed the debate, highlighted the speakers’ main points, and then offered the audience his take on the South’s “new industrial experiment.” … the soul of modern man. John Crowe Ransom As early as 1926, John Crowe Ransom and Allen Tate decided they “must do …
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… sheer size of the devastation makes it almost impossible to comprehend, much less describe: in Hiroshima, at least … in 1983 in which he calculated that 200,000 people had died as a result of the bomb in Hiroshima by 1950, and … that Americans might be most surprised to learn is that 226,598 officially certified survivors of the atomic bombings …
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… and study birds than any other class of (nonhuman) animals. This prompts the question, why? Apparently the answer … that of reptiles or mammals, yet not huge enough to baffle comprehension, as the profusion of insect forms does for … study any animals other than human beings? In popular medieval writings about the lower animals these were sometimes …
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… central theme was that America’s national ideals are incompatible with racial discrimination, and in the 1940’s … and authority. These particulars and many others are embodied in the UN Charter and are matched and extended in many … peace and multilateralism. But not every American loyalty points in that direction. Thought and selection among …
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