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Individual Responsibility in the Great Gatsby
… he ends his relationship with Jordan because of this commitment to his own honesty, telling her, “I’m thirty … fully to the dictates of her world. She stays away from soldiers and then becomes “presumably engaged to a man from New … even though she should have learned, as Nick eventually points out, that wealth “imprisons” as well as “preserves.” …
No Regrets, Sydney
… At 19 . . . 30 even . . . it’s wonderful. But it doesn’t compare . . . it’s not in the same league as an orgasm at … think about saving some for when I’m a hundred. My wife died last year. We were married 50 years. In 50 years I … boy from a fifth floor walk up on Mosholu Parkway. She was also imperious and self-centered and demanding. She would …
An Approach to Dante
… to Dante That Dante was the greatest mind produced by the medieval age of faith few people, we suppose, would deny. But … toward the popular problem of Church in State, has become, in our time and country, one of the uncanonized saints … was also excommunicated as a matter of course, and in 1266 had to fight the French prince at Benevento for his …
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Boundaries of Utopia
… from my first cousin to the daughter of a duke; no lord compels me to marry a girl or widow from the manor, no … Not subject to the persecutions of ecclesiastical busybodies, I decide that it would be pleasant to take a young … of the oppressed is perhaps the most inexplicable, as it is also the most important, fact in all history), have been …
The Essence of the New Deal
… to realize how early there had appeared what has become one of the most curious phenomena of the subsequent … at the rationalization of specific industries as were embodied in the oil legislation or the Guffey Act. The mechanism … today may not differ greatly from what they were in 1926, that celebrated heaven of the “normal.” It is folly to …
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The Bed Sleeps with No One
… We talked but not much was said. It was the day before you died. I was so sad I wanted to die with you. The nearby bed beckoned. The old bed was …
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