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… Seymour Fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, and won it. The year was 1954, I was 23, … , an elderly vessel which was built for a defunct British company only a couple years after the Titanic sank, and she … killed by the Communist E.L.A.S. ten years before. He also intended to find his brother’s killer. I got my first …
In the Kingdom of the Spider
… the violin at me, it won’t help. I want to go where I can become myself—” impatiently tossing her long hair. “A country … so, he thought, a way of renewing old credentials and, it occurred to him, of ruffling the feathers of his … to overcome the smugness he saw in the faces of his audience by reminding them that the abominations he described …
Biography At Its Best
… a fact that Freud never mentioned—Dostoevsky had a son who died at the age of three from an epileptic attack. … it, “there are no male friendships in Dostoevsky’s life comparable in length and emotional importance to Freud’s own … that while he feels obliged to dismiss the central points in Freud’s essay on Dostoevsky, Frank fails to …
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“I’m Nobody”: Lyric Poetry and the Problem of People
… That we deceive. That we covet. That we love. That we die. That we remember. Our symposium is entitled “Lyric … place of the popular in a seemingly hermetic site? How do communities, indeed how do urban and technological … often marks the origin of the personal lyric. But, Schmidt points out, this overlooks three significant things: the …
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Notes From the Dream Factory
… With the purchase of Lucasfilm by the Walt Disney Company for $4.05 billion in stock and cash in 2012, one can … with our readers, we need to tackle these questions. Our website now attracts more than 300,000 unique annual viewers … deliver our stories in the formats that best match our audience members’ reading preferences. Where our readers are, …
In Matera
In Matera In Matera, where the darkness rose from the sockets of caves under the city, like a town in Pennsylvania where the coal fires burn miles down, year after year, unquenchable, I dreamed again of you, so seldom in all this time, and not even you, …
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