… to keep their distance. One of the villagers told me it was comical to see them puffing and scrambling to keep up with … in bad taste or later at the Elysée when one of the ladies wore a gown that was cut too low. Never mind: there … trotting up the driveway with his string gloves and his briefcase. He was struck all of a heap: he dropped his case and …
… Mind boys what I say— It’s a military prison for a soldier 1 While he was humming the last line of the tune, Tom … of Jerusalem, Alexandria, and Antioch have erred, so also the Church of Rome hath erred not only in living and … the water. —We all go like that poor spit, he said to his comrade, a gathering together, a second or so in the mouth, …
Essays
… however, occupies a space where agency and identity become blurred, where one might act like a sloppier version of … finish a sentence, that I am writing at all. Yet writing is also an act of constraint: The sentences lasso the … in translating that touch, tell us a story about our bodies and the spaces they move through. Without touch, or …
… 1763-1893. By Frederic L. Paxson, Boston. Houghton Mifflin Company. $6.00. The frontier, as census officials and historians have defined it, had already vanished … settlement the first great period of American history had come to an end, and that our national develop ment during …
… have wide influence. The provinces have no legislative bodies, although the Governor must consult an advisory board … system is somewhat the same. The Minister of Interior appoints a Prefect (starosta) as head of each county, who is … for the destruction of the parliamentary system in 1926. The very fact that the parties no longer had the …
Poetry
You Stood Beneath a Streetlight Waving Goodbye You stood beneath a streetlight waving goodbye the night we dropped you off in the city for our daughter’s appointment with one of the country’s top surgeons. and as we drove away, the other children and I …