… Biography. By Virginia Woolf. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $3.00. Point Counter Point. By Aldous Huxley. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company. $2.50. An air of strangeness declares the kinship … to mention a childhood grounding in “Alice in Wonderland.” Also an acquaintance with Strachey’s “Queen Victoria” and …
Fine Distinctions
… Solstice vs. Equinox When it comes to the workings of the universe, Albert Einstein … its position relative to the stars so that, over a nearly 26,000-year cycle, Earth’s north pole points to different places in the sky, which yields minor …
… move, just lies still and soaks into the grass. Game injury comes in multiple ways, always all of a sudden. It can be … play, and no one knows the guy is down until it’s over. Bodies scramble as the play evolves; formations collapse, … teammate, Jason Callahan, my bunkmate the night before, all 260 Ibs., rolled over my ankle and pulled me down. I …
… the consciousness of Americans, whose life is dominated by competitive values, a metaphoric imagery of athletic … Winning in a football game is defined as scoring more points than the opposition, not by the lessons in … of destruction. One wonders if even these mindless audiences who responded with such childish enthusiasm to …
Poetry
… lodged in the body gravity and its petty defiances when I die throw this flesh to the wolves the woods the birds lay …
… multitudes are herded into opposing Fascist and Communist camps, and democracy, that slow growth of the … of a considerable number of the most intelligent individuals of a given time, one must return to the origin of the … movement, must observe Benedict drawing up his rules of obedience, poverty, and chastity at a moment when civilization …