… the short tempers, the freezing houses, scanty meals, sickness, filth, and utter weariness of the home front … Pihl writes of that event, “and I would say that Nazism died in Germany when the drama on the Volga came to an … of Lieutenant General Dittmar, radio voice of the High Command; episodes in streets and stores in which …
Poetry
… the twirling stick Where you are sleeping, where you will come again. Already your breath, pale as fog through a … brothers. If you fall asleep in the middle of my fear, I come back To claim my throat and my numb belly, like a dog … binding of midnight, Without leaping or rattling, you have come back To lodge yourself in the deep fibres under my …
… me if this is true. My neighbor Mrs. Lewis says your moving company recruits its workers from the parking lot down at … was to go out and fix the disasters these “moving professionals” created. Some were easy, like sewing up a tear in the … school and Saturdays to make ends meet. By the time she died, four years later, I had lost interest in college. I …
… the mother of Wendy and the grandmother of Emily, who died in 1988 at the age of 84. “Those books” include such … Ms. Fairey rightly considers “a kind of feminist heroine,” also embodies that 19th-century archetypal hero. Exceptional … instance, Mommie Dearest—One of the Family is a complex narrative, part biography, part autobiography. …
… times. At one level, it is a straightforward attempt to compare three battles in terms of what it was like to face … more than just compelling battlefield scenes from the soldier’s eye view. It is also a discourse on the usefulness … the 20th century, as Veatch’s important study disturbingly points out. International Aid and National Decisions: …
Criticism
… label has evolved to diminish its meaning. As Fromartz points out, the definition of the organic label was a proxy … quagmire the day before, and the flower of French chivalry died in mud up to their knees. The survivors became Henry’s … Morriso n, by Arnold Weinstein. Random House, March 2006. $26.95 Weinstein, a professor of comparative literature at …