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… Through the accident that very few scientists can write competently, a scientific style has evolved that is pompous, … Through another accident that space in scientific journals is at a premium, wrong turns, interesting mistakes, the birth of insight, are all excluded and only a falsely straight path to the goal is described. To anyone who …
… Poems of William Butler Yeats. New York: The Macmillan Company. $3.50. Poems, 1924-1933. By Archibald MacLeish. … only the whole body of a man’s work that can so stir his audience, and, however Yeats may surprise us in his old age, … where, like Yeats, he traffics in Indian philosophy and medieval magic, it is not astonishing that the modern mind …
… Best 200 Words I Read All Week. From fact to fiction, from comedic to tragic, we hope you find as much to admire in … these selections as we do. Click here for access to the complete project archive 1. As he hastily slipped on his …
Essays
… blink, aiming its entire soundless self toward the music coming from you. Note how it nods along with your tuneful … in Mozart’s expense book, and no more handwritten melodies; no additional transactions were praised as schön! This … trickery—leading tones that drop away from roots, accidentals that jar the listening mind from its diverted stupor, …
Poetry
Regardless Once, my father took me to the Rockaways during a hurricane to see how the ocean was behaving, which made my mother furious, whose love was correct, protective. We saw a wooden jetty crumble. We saw water rise to the boardwalk, felt the …
… But no one came; no voice called out, “Ready or not, here I come!” She didn’t see a road but a maze. In the morning, she … unusually quiet for a Saturday night. Flynn wasn’t going to die. There would be no internal bleeding or some such horror … happened. She thought about her lilies, the pale green sepals bulging in the moonlight “Tell them I called to say hi, …