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The Wings of Plaster Angels
… Poise on their tinsel wings above the dolls And new lead soldiers. Though we think of bright Fierce swords as emblems … age is the same. Think an impassioned poet, tired with age, Dies lonely now and hears Atlantis cough— Sick ocean to a … green rind After the heart of melons in the sun; Now lonely dies the impassioned simpleton. Now in our youth (we young …
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First the Fence, Then the System
… previous year. Human smuggling and drug smuggling have become a cooperative business. The infamous Ciudad Juarez, … children are crossing the US-​Mexico border from starting points as far away as El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala. … palm fronds, and tall grasses shushing against their bodies. After about an hour, they arrived at a trailer home. …
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Best New American Voices
… gay and Asian and unafraid in the 1930s, is virtuosic and commanding. In Timothy Scott’s surprising “Plato” a widower … all of which are inventive, cohesive, and memorable. Only 26 years old and a graduate of Emerson’s MFA program, van … tragedy isn’t the unbearable thing, but rather the way tragedies can also be mysterious, as in the psychological demise …
Reprint, Winter 1996
… Intervention, edited by Edward Zigler and Sally J. Styfco with a chapter by Senator Edward M. Kennedy. [$25 cloth, … has reprinted Robert Brustein’s Dumbocracy in America: Studies in the Theatre of Guilt, 1987—1994, a collection of … 1770-1810 which historian Eric Foner lauded as “the most comprehensive account now available of the abolition of …
Radio Drama: the Stage of the Mind
… Saturdaynight play, repeated on the Monday, attracts a combined audience of approximately one million listeners. What this … he’s working not only on their inclination to imagine, but also by grace of that particular inclination. It would seem …
Hugo Black and Thomas Jefferson
… personal injuries or job-related grievances. In 1926, having never run for statewide office, he launched a … page numbers—to enable him to get back quickly to important points in the book. The extent to which he marked, … after delivering this ringing declaration, Justice Black died at the age of 83. He was buried in Arlington National …
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