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Nesta
… week-long and island-wide, the stench of the backed-up commode. I have waited too long to credit the flesh, have … that shivered through and shook us.   156-157 By Davis McCombs …
Night on La Verna
… won my, heart with her black eyes and golden wine, and also her agreeable excitement and overflowing anxiety for … fire, the foremost a handsome fellow with a deep sunburnt complexion, broad-shouldered, deep-chested, wearing the open … could nurse this stubborn soil the year round and yet die in the poorhouse. By the law of gravitation, the better …
Tragic Dilemma: The Negro and the American Dream
… By Edwin R. Embree. The Viking Press. $2.75. New World A-Coming: Inside Black America. By Roi Ottley. Houghton … the story, Herskovits magnifies the gaps in previous studies, indulges in speculations as to what would be found if … science in this sense is political science. While Myrdal points out that our social science “has lately developed …
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The Night Surrounds Us Like a Room Whose Door Is Closed
… laughed. I tried to make it sound less arrogant and more comically depressing and told you that all my memories of … Certain images repeated themselves in the gaps between bodies. Babies suckling and grimacing before artists accepted … with red inside which was the inside of my face. But I also looked oddly pretty and conventional, my cheeks flushed …
Literature and Modern Man
… The four books here reviewed are critical studies of unusual breadth of scope, interpreting literature in … the heritage of our time. The touchstone for all his appraisals is given in the chapter entitled “A Theory of Value: … “The Magic Mountain,” leads one to ask what sentiment has come in to confuse his estimate of the “values” involved. …
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Truths, Slightly Arranged: John Updike’s Uninhibited Fiction
… or an invitation—​it’s not clear—​he does something uncommon for an Updike character: He beats a hasty retreat. … of writers—​like John Cheever and J. D. Salinger—​who were also associated with the magazine. If Begley’s biography and … his stud days, as in the story “Cunts.” Updike’s father died in 1972, and his mother in 1989, and in their loss …
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