Criticism
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… camouflaged jungle uniforms incongruously bedecked with medals and ribbons maintain a permanent vigil for our MI As at … to haunt the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, Congressional committees still spend millions of dollars on one … people of the Golden Triangle call him Kon Ahn Harm Kon Die: “ The One Who Carries the Dead.” And though his …
… the world in which he lived. At one time or another he complained of many features of our American life style: of … Jenny Du Pre, who had experienced the Civil War, did not die until 1930, and thus remained to counsel and sometimes … aspect of the individual’s fulfillment of himself. Goodwin points out that more than one thinker of the nineteenth …
Essays
… Report, an accident, a murder, or “natural causes,” all bodies express this downwardness when we remove them from this … until we can get the bag around the body and zip it up, communicating in short statements: “His arm . . . Watch the … We often mull over the case reports that provide crucial points of information in their descent. We read them and …
Essays
… process of the suns. As to the increasing purpose I have no competence to speak, but it’ the thoughts of men have been … the globe that the species inhabits. They are agreed also that this 1·esult is due, not to any inherent defect in … demands, not the relegation to the background of such studies, but their strengthening and broadening by all possible …
… the Atlantic from view but which did not drown out the welcome roar of its surf; this sound plainly said, this way, … drew elderly dowagers or dignified government officials slowly along the boulevards with a queer land of … of American troops in general, the draftees and citizen-soldiers in particular. All of us were seeing for the first …