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… America are devoid of substance, mandating consumption and commercial extravaganzas. For instance, not only have the … with Jesus: Dispatches from America’s Class War ), who died in 2011, here is a bit from his mini-autobiography : … and considers their implications for everyday life. It points to a new vision of what society could become-one that …

… him, in the dark, gothic cathedral of Florence. He is also the designer of three equally famous paintings of the … Romano, chivalric romances in which brightly colored toy soldiers or equestrian puppets deploy their richly patterned … tacked to his studio wall, and we can almost see the complex, multi-faceted forms of the Florentine’s highly …

… a poet without myth, without meta- , physic, without commitment to any systematic vision of the world, perhaps … scenes and regions. “There are in her poems,” says David Kalstone, “no final visions—only the saving, continuing, … dead on the spot. Nobody else’s does. And then your father dies. . . . I give you money for the funeral and you go and …

Blue Ridge Bestiary 1. Vulture Business never slows for the air’s ubiquitous morticians, their spiraling so effortless we might admit its beauty, if we didn’t know how eagerly, in those ridiculous black boas, they wait to begin the endless dissipation we …

… By Orland Kay Armstrong. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Mcrrill Company. $2.50, Brown America. By Edwin R. Embree. New York: … with considerate masters slavery was without attractive points. Mr. Armstrong arranges his material chronologically, … its progress has been little short of miraculous. Individuals have refuted utterly the popular Southern beliefs about …