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Norfolk, 1969
… as if the possibility of going to war was nothing compared to the certainty of calling this place home. They … of hair and the delicacy of wrists, these become melodies missing all their notes. When he read her letters, they … hours maneuvering around merchantmen, fishing boats, and points of land, who had often late at night calculated …
The Green Room, Winter 1987
… to obliterate mankind as well. Yet, as Michael Joseph Smith points out in his essay, “virtually from the beginning of … to law school. The larger questions presented by a world of competing sovereign states seemed more compelling.” Winning … as a research fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies in New Delhi. An associate professor of sociology at …
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Capturing Saddam: Iraq, December 2003
… 2003 The spartan interior of a U.S. Air Force C-130 has uncomfortable web seating. Our gear is strapped to a pallet in … in mud-spewing ATVs. Looking for MANPADS shooters. Those soldiers would just as soon kill a MANPADS team as look at … busts of Saddam have been cut free and craned from pedestals at each of the main roof corners. They have a vaguely …
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Self as Self-Impersonation in American Poetry
… horse first, and Saul second, indicates how far I am from comprehending the mind of a truly religious sensibility, for … “a tempestio in a teapotio,” the usual jockeying for audience that every generation is heir to, while some of it … line, “The land was ours before we were the land’s,” points to not only the irony of a colonial situation in …
Men and Masks
… Pepys. Does life hold any more exciting adventure than the comprehension of other lives? So that one opens a biography, … on which they strut. Perhaps Edward Everett, who did not die till 1865, can come to life in his biographer’s hands. … for famous fountains have to be gone at systematically. He also improved his time at Florence by writing some really …
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The Future of Industrial Man
… works. Hence these questions are undoubtedly our starting points: What makes a society? What constitutes success and … unemployment during the German “high prosperity” of 1926 and 1927, the unprecedented boom of 1935 and 1936 in … wherever there were leaders of non-gentry origin—Keir Hardie, Ramsay MacDonald, Lloyd George—they were Scotch, Welsh, …
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