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… mother, knew the minute she was no longer alive. My mother died alone— unconscious, the doctor guesses. Who knew what …

… Mongol horseman at the gates of a city might be enough to compel its surrender. In the early 20th century, a lone … President the year after the assassination, he was born and died in California; he witnessed the passing of the frontier … to be hard. “Nothing that I used to think,” he wrote in 1926, “could stand in the face of that Russian experience.” …

… not mean the first definition, the technical one: individuals who teach college students. I will mean the second … centuries. Lynch wishes to uncover “how it has come to be that those of us for whom English is a line of … that we have “this tendency to identify literary studies with the love of the subject and to identify that love …

… social world affords the self its meaningful occasions for coming into consciousness and contour. Or so these … slang for “wish to buy.” Lack is the fuel of commerce and also its undoing. Lack for the buyer means appetite; for the … my breath. If I remained “flat on my back I believe I would die.” Yet others mimic the subdued adversarial pull of a …

… he might as well have worn a sign saying Enemy of the Common Man. In the second place, as a hypocrite, Pat fooled … on his taxes, claimed deductions and collected crop subsidies; and yet he couldn’t resist hinting proudly of this … learned that bonds on which the state was paying $265 million per year in principal and interest would soon …