… When the Soldiers Come Back About ten million Americans, if we split Brigadier … give and take. In his mind will be dissolved many a false conception nurtured by nationalism, especially about … When the Soldiers Come Back …
… with infinitude. . . With hope it is, hope that can never die, Effort, and expectation, and desire, And something … a depth Proceed thy honours. ( The Prelude , XII, 269—273) Wordsworth’s remarkable re-creating of such an … more remarkable because with this metaphor of time he first points the way to the place where all imaginative vision …
Essays
… but, and trod the lanes of Amherst helplessly trying to compose in it, who did his own impressions of it at his own … for a tiny South Atlantic islet dotted with sheep; Admirals Drake and Nelson were invoked in the defence of Empire, … War’s annals will cloud into night Ere their story die. The word cloud there has a convulsive effect on my gut …
Portfolios
… you can never go back. Without covers, hardcover books become confident blocks of wood—they don’t shimmy or slide in … orange wind-up bird toy against a baby-blue background gradient. Geoff Spear photographed the toy so that most of it … what I want for my own journey as a creative person. It also illustrates the process of finding solutions in design …
… in 1968, Robert C.W. Ettinger shared his vision of a coming world in which humanity would be freed by beneficent … them or removing them in the mind of the individual. . . . Competitive drives, in the inter-personal sense, may or may … tomorrow is almost self-parodic; yet in essence it reveals a mindset that is not uncommon. Anyone who would devise …
… thousand wounded. Some six thousand Palestinian homes were also destroyed, leaving countless families without shelter … two Intifadas, and a near-total Israeli blockade had combined to make “emergency” Gaza’s natural state. New … since January. When I arrived, Gazans were still pulling bodies from the rubble; by March they were bent to the task of …