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Continuing Education, Or Beyond the Ph.D.
… almost normal. I help children cross streets and kiss old ladies. I am a latent athlete and watch Monday night football. … “And,” he added, “it infuriates him when someone completes sentences for him.” “Oh,” I said, thinking the … go to table 38? Would Miss Frankenberry report to table 26?” An interview in a whore-house in Port Said would be …
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How He Changed over Time
… listened to any music, except, perhaps, at long intervals, from a distance, a patriotic march. He used to provide … his roomy front hall, and visitors waiting for a private audience would pass the time studying the artifacts and … were not as strong or agile on the reins. Riding became uncomfortable, and he began to dislike his horse, as it also …
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The Last Days of High Bridge Arms
… to cheeky: Paragraphs from California Penal Code Section 26835 are framed and posted around the sales floor; an … lean on the counter. While a woman with a crewcut and hoodie talks to Alcairo, the cops talk about other cops. … the pictures. The dispatches are then published on our website, and two are selected for inclusion in each issue of …
The Libel Against Capitalism
… of profits, dividends, interest, and rent as sources of income. It touches all the imponderables of life, transmutes … Among the major manufacturing industries, the really big deals in combinations were conceived and “put over” by … a high water content were to be issued. With these ingredients of the situation in proper juxtaposition, the …
City By the Chesapeake Bay
… the presses and sold out. Actually, this still-new history, commissioned by the city, goes all the way back to 1561, … of colonial life in Tidewater Virginia. Choosing as principals the pioneering Adam Thorowgood family, especially Sarah, … the new history. He pioneered in African-American studies and is an authority on the Norfolk black community. For …
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Marveling At Empson’s Ways
… shows considerable awareness of the problems of literary competence,” and which comes close— high praise indeed!—to a “structuralist formulation” ( Structuralist Poetics , p. 126). In Harold Bloom’s judgment, Empson is, along with G. … in this way, tossing off a pun or cracking a joke when he deals with serious matters. On other occasions, he will halt …
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