… on a dirt road behind a mosque with four Lebanese Army soldiers aiming their rifles at me. The noon sun beat down on … in the war zone suspicious. And my problems would be compounded once the soldiers discovered that I had also gone … my satchel. The sun was bright, the wind was rising, checkpoints were set up on every corner of the neighborhood. …
… Poems: 1930-1940. By Horace Gregory. Harcourt, Brace and Company. $2.50. It is possible to read well into his “Fifty … rate, for the absence of his usual collage of brothels, petals, and smiles in the present volume, and for the presence … whole, a struggle for affirmations, in which the will to die and the will to survive engage each other at close …
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… but the Moroccan industry made a serious effort to compete in the 1990s, pulling even with Tunisia in the … The town still has dozens of cave homes, though many locals have moved into more universal aboveground houses. “It’s … Arabic and Persian films, and there’s a small but loyal audience for Tunisia’s auteur films. And yet, despite its …
… Best 200 Words I Read All Week. From fact to fiction, from comedic to tragic, we hope you find as much to admire in … gift hilarious, and wore the socks proudly with his new sandals right through to Halloween. I laughed, too, pretending … his hands and consider the hundreds of thousands who have died just in Syria after Iran, under Suleimani’s direction, …
… writing on space rates for the World , and decides that “come what might, this was the end of newspaper reporting for me. Never again, if I died in the fight, would I condescend to be a reporter on … them for full-length books such as Notes on Democracy (1926) and Treatise on the Gods (1930). He wrote his newspaper …
… out of his pajamas like fallen branches, I felt warm and comfortable. Instead of being parted by time and youth’s … she shot him. Although James lost a leg, he did not die, and grandfather got Bessie off with a suspended … “Samuel Pickering, Beta House, Vanderbilt University, 1926.” Often holding three jobs at once, father worked his way …