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War and Zero-Sum Games
… the consciousness of Americans, whose life is dominated by competitive values, a metaphoric imagery of athletic … Winning in a football game is defined as scoring more points than the opposition, not by the lessons in … of destruction. One wonders if even these mindless audiences who responded with such childish enthusiasm to …
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Everything born and made is born and made
… lodged in the body gravity and its petty defiances when I die throw this flesh to the wolves the woods the birds lay …
The Conquest of Emotion
… multitudes are herded into opposing Fascist and Communist camps, and democracy, that slow growth of the … of a considerable number of the most intelligent individuals of a given time, one must return to the origin of the … movement, must observe Benedict drawing up his rules of obedience, poverty, and chastity at a moment when civilization …
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This is Not a Requiem for Detroit
… dissolution of city services, decay and the chaos that comes with it. I grew up around the detritus of urban … Detroit the eleventh most populated city in the US. It is also 80% black, according to the last available US census. … And the stress—I do feel strongly that the stress—he died the 28th of June. They call you back in September, and …
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The Weight of a Nickel
… alfalfa, too, to bale for his fifty head of cattle. He also kept pigs, chickens, the odd goat or horse. He had one … no. So Arnie walked over. His hair was a feathery brown comb-over and he wore carefully groomed muttonchops on his … ponds. Her hobbies were reading and fashion, which she studied in magazines before sewing her own clothes. Fabric …
The Mathew Brady Photographs
… horses, suffered toothache to its bloody end. And when they died, they just died. (God was in His prime,     and could take on Science …
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