Site Search results

… She was twenty-four and had left Germany after her mother died. Her mother had been in Kabul, serving as an engineer … his motorbike every morning as they had done before. She accompanied him on his errands and they went to the beach for … He didn’t push. It reminded her of the way some animals made their presence known, once, and then went to their …

… knotted, ancient, crucified vines, This time, the dream had come before dawn, causing her to come out of sleep gasping … “outside times” that day Artie spotted Marta, a square-bodied, blunt-featured four-year-old with lank blond hair that … Then she went back inside the building to pick up her briefcase and purse. She encountered no one; the children were …

… his weathered features and expressive eyes would make for a compelling photograph. When she drove out to his family farm … He collected scrap metal to raise money for the blind. She also learned that Tom was visiting his wife’s grave at the … School of Visual Communication publishes a student website called “Soul of Athens”—which features stories about …

… Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster—stood, by common consent, preeminent. For better or worse (some of … the United States in the main. Calhoun for his part could also be starkly small-minded, as when he resisted Clay’s … insects, the three triumvirs would sting their last and die within months of this last intersectional bargain. We …

… American life was in such a state that my poor little points would have been sent off merely to a great blank. If … gilding, so much simple hope, money, and preeminence in a commercial world, it was our America. It looked as if our … of American culture, delivered in Italian to Italian audiences of a very representative variety and importance. …