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… surpassing even 1913, so memorable for its plenty. And 1926 was just as good. The station floors attested comfort … many exiles started for the mines and death, and so many soldiers took their leave for Manchuria. There is a carpet … In the corridor of the train a stranger tugs my sleeve and points to the horizon. The bright white specks moving there …
… suggesting the “pale, lean scholar of the White House” who commanded in the other war and dreamed of a peace. With a … Wilson’s Forgotten Man was the original one, who is also the 1944 one, the middle-class entrepreneur. “American … beginning the New Deal contained within itself these ingredients of explosion. Once the economic crisis ended or was …
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… Arctic, you’ll need skis and tanks, of course, but you may also need newspapers. The Fins have been using this cheap, … long been part of the Finnish strategy. Image A Finnish soldier practices lighting a fire without matches or a lighter. … to cover the war, what ended up being a five-year commitment, and about a year or so into that assignment I …
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… camp in the world. (Is it coincidental that this camp is also in Africa, the most historically neglected continent … whose dust-covered faces, hands, and feet turned their bodies into sand ghosts, my children were back home in … and dispensations so acutely, I truly believed my comfort did not authorize me to speak. And further, hadn’t I …
… the light of individual judgment. Beyond the humor of this comparison remains the fact that in the course of American … ingenuity, to be approached in the spirit in which one studies the primitive epic or the evolution of marriage … of satire when he mocked at “the barren New England hills”; also the Centre of Indifference, the season of utter …
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… a storm of symbolism, wearing saffron garments—a move that commentators from India Today, a prominent English-language … five hundred miles southeast of New Delhi, Varanasi, also called Benares, is the spiritual capital of India. Not … To bathe in the Ganges is to be purified of all sins; to die in Varanasi is to reach moksha, the transcendent state …