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Notes on Current Books, Winter 2000
… Michie Eades writes that “every facet of South Africa is complex.” She then attempts the daunting task of describing … poems . . .” ; Chrétien de Troyes: “one of the finest medieval writers . . .” . Some of the information is wrong: … too broadly painted as well. Ms. Silver weakens some of her points with condescending generalizations about “the …
The Man At the Beach
… the tip of the lighthouse tower, and in a moment it was completely out of sight. We walked over to the pavilion, … we sprinted for the surf. We stepped out, dodging the incoming waves, until the water was up to our waists. Though … and repeating under my breath the bells and the whistle signals, just as the boy in Tom Sawyer did with the Big …
Democracy With a Union Card
… Democracy With a Union Card It is a sign of labor’s coming of age that the newspapers have turned sedulously to … Society sort of unionism. Both defects could be remedied by a militant trade-unionism that directed itself to … put through after the collapse of the general strike of 1926, does not compel either incorporation of trade-unions or …
Winter Burial
… She has forgotten the hard side of winter, but it comes as no surprise when she crests a rise and finds the calves that have died in the cold months piled under the trees, the snow …
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Call of the Narcocorrido
… silence. They know in the expanding quiet that someone will die tonight. When and where the execution will happen they … unsettled even after the gunfire has ceased and neighbors come to peer with accustomed caution through barred windows; … driver asks a man selling tacos if he knows the address. He points the way they had come. The driver switches on the …
A Dog’s Life In the Foreign Service
… ways of life benefit from it in many ways, but they may also suffer in the process. So do household pets. Consider, … his love for his family transcended his bewilderment and discomforts, and he accepted both uncomplainingly. Perhaps, … our dog had a sheltered existence and thrived on an Italian diet which was much preferred to Norwegian whale meat. When …
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