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… dread, harking back to that far time when man’s constant combat was with the wild beasts which, especially at night, … come only by individual poise, individual gentleness and obedience. There are no radicals in nature; no professional … as tall as my little horse; and his horns carry twenty-six points, as you can see for yourself. He was a giant of …

… the television, and, of course, there was the tragedy of it coming at Christmastime too. Actually, because it was the … of these old GMC’s to know their quirks. Hugo Sencillo also knew that there was a good chance that the two girls … in the Hotel de la Condesa in Zacatecas. The bus fumed its diesel exhaust into the brightening morning as he worked …

… American newspapers are survivors of many decades of unruly competition that came down, during the first half of this … closed). The late Barry Bingham, then 80 years old (he died of a brain tumor last year), who had inherited the … Derby decorations. They could afford even to be liberals. Miss Brenner might have suggested, but does not, that …

… by supererogation or misunderstanding, “decadent” has become, as Gilman admits, an epithet of “disquieting allure.” … pedantry and dogmatic ideology, we revive when we read studies so brief yet allusive, elliptical yet savory of detail, … certainly hold a place in the history of sensibility—but also in the history of poetry? The pros and cons of the …

… a modest subset of the cache, I did so with a thrill of complicit transgression. The paintings are ex-votos, meaning … or illness that befalls ordinary human beings or animals. Each commemorates the miraculous intervention and … artists and collectors as inspirational artifacts. It was Diego Rivera who first deemed them valuable, preferring to …