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Monkeys, Firecrackers, and Dust
… to sweat graciously. Why resist the inevitable? Why not welcome what brings relief? Swiftly Dr. Gopinath, the … What’s happened? What’s the problem? Her son-in-law has died , the voice tells me. He went to sleep last night and … public fireworks of every American town, city, and golfcourse. No, these firecrackers are meant to explode, to …
Codfish Chowder and Sun
… tops, if you were spry, and you must have the myrrh of the balsams in your nose along with the smell of the sea all a … darker and deeper blue between the white crests that are coming in from far Spain. The sea and the sun get in under your soul. I cannot begin to tell you all the ingredients you mix together to make this day of bliss. Somewhere …
The “Strange Country”
… the state named in its title. But its release on June 26, 1934 was greeted with a critical acclaim and commercial success that stunned the author, the publishers, … smooth steps. “He was a very attractive man and quite a ladies’ man,” recalls Robert Harwood, a student of Carmer’s …
Eve
… a hairpin in her mouth and a lock of hair lifted in her comb. “You know.” She had just plucked the hairpin from her … up these lampposts. Ice on the windshields, salt crystals and slush in the streets,” he said. “Not to mention … be talking about a funeral. A famous jazz clarinetist had died. The accents were heavy. The man and woman listened to …
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Long Division
… their current attractiveness from…isolating people from competing value systems,” Marty continues, while cults and … to recruit new members, cliques number only a few individuals and are closed to outsiders. Think of the table of … we’re willing to set aside our internal differences and die to preserve what we imagine is ours.  clique party sect …
Images of Secret Life
… a World. By Wallace Stevens. Alfred A. Knopf. $2.00. Have Come, Am Here. By Jose Garcia Villa. The Viking Press. … and I should be surprised to learn that either poet ever studied the other’s poems. Though their fundamental attitudes … For his soliloquizers are not people, but philosophical points of view—or impulsions toward these. They do not talk; …
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