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About Love
… o’clock children of assorted sizes begin arriving. They come in twos and threes with identical bleached heads and browned bodies, flying flapping towels and falling languorously onto … thumb in the family.” Alden Morris is bowed over the coals of the barbecue pit. The bald dome of his head deeply …
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Learning to Speak: The New Age of HIV/AIDS in the Other Jamaica
… coast. This Jamaica, this Kingston, is a rollicking and complicated place, a genuine city with all the pressures of … It is as much a part of my Jamaica as it is part of the bodies of many of its citizens. And even though I will later … project, visit the Pulitzer Center . To see the interactive website, including video documentary material, additional …
Mourning and Melancholia: Will Percy and the Southern Tradition
… it had seen three unique, even idiosyncratic attempts to encompass the Southern present and past: W. J. Cash’s The Mind … the difference and the greater authenticity which Percy embodied. As a “last gentleman,” Percy himself has become rather … his father, who was primarily a corporation lawyer. Nothing points so much to the distorted view of his family’s place …
The Wings of Plaster Angels
… Poise on their tinsel wings above the dolls And new lead soldiers. Though we think of bright Fierce swords as emblems … age is the same. Think an impassioned poet, tired with age, Dies lonely now and hears Atlantis cough— Sick ocean to a … green rind After the heart of melons in the sun; Now lonely dies the impassioned simpleton. Now in our youth (we young …
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Not Sumerian
… with his hand held up like a traffic cop’s; and the ice coming on. The ice coming on with the force of the planet behind it. 210-211 By …
The Russia That Was
… definition that history is mankind thinking about itself becomes increasingly difficult of application as the historian … partook of. But the writer of a college text feels no such false modesty: he will commonly descant on Ghenghis Khan … his spiritual and subjective experience—than all the studies of environment that will ever fill our libraries. We …
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