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… saved them from the pyre. Daughter, you were no medieval beauty lost in the dissolution of the priories. You … corn-colored, thin-lipped, graying like a dawn. If men become the portrait of their mothers, what would I have been, … a life a year … too young to die, too old to plead my case. 265-268 By William Logan …

… from Atlanta in the late 1960’s, and there discovered the comparative political impotence of its businessmen, except … the 1990’s. I lived and worked with problems Bayor has studied, and I do believe that his treatment is throughout … to 48,963 in 1961, the first year of desegregation, to 55,265 in the 1964—65 school year; in the meantime, only 1,140 …

… lover of high-minded calm, Keats called him Polyphemus and complained that   strength alone though of the Muses born Is … continual inflation: quoting a quatrain from the Hebrew Melodies in which Byron observes, “So gleams the past … the better; he urges us on without standing in our way; he points out the track without snowing us. His vivid, vagabond …

… years old. A Christian Indian, Wampanoag. How he becomes literate enough to be a teacher, how a Wampanoag comes … from him, how he becomes a self-educated lawyer, how he dies in the almshouse, how his obituary is ten times the … can touch: the writing of his hand. Thomas painted his initials in black inside the oldest windmill on Cape Cod. He’d …

… Ideas. By Alfred North Whitehead. New York: The Macmillan Company. $3.50. It seems that there are only two ways of … differences in technique: in the epic way the narrator appeals to the Muses to help him tell a story; in the dramatic … described the organic mechanisms by which “ideas” are embodied in the coming-to-be and passing-away of “events.” …