… from those other Mondays when the mail does not come. Even for the military, this observance has lost most … of intractable ailments and unproblematized patriotism. Remedies are promised on most pages for catarrah, persistent … trained troops faltered in the offensive of September 26. Then the next day, Jack Falkner with the 5th Marine …
Criticism
… treatments and surgeries for thyroid cancer and some brutal complications—think an exploded carotid artery and a … and his wonderfully supportive wife, Chaz (who’s also VP of the Ebert Company). But what I found most extraordinary about the …
… “Precautions” begins with an amusing account of having readied a boat for a hurricane, all the while looking forward … happen to the boats left unprepared; but the storm does not come. The poem concludes: Take Noah, with the ark all built, … their places somewhere along the spectrum between these points of view. “Bloody Murder” opens with a stanza composed …
… Brown. $12.95 Niccolo Machiavelli, move over. Now comes Larry Sabato with a sophisticated new primer for … with the analyst’s, Sabato proposes an agenda of some 20 points— eight grouped together as “party-initiated actions,” … and campaigns, with direct and indirect government subsidies from the taxpayers. Channel all public financing …
… some entirely simple operation—it was like a motor that had died because the sparkplugs were dirty or because the … that no simple operation would save us; there had to be the complete renovation of society that Karl Marx had prophesied … Columbia. The Federal Reserve reported that it had lost $226 million in gold during the last four days. On Friday …
Essays
… he called it? Am I really in Mannahatta? I could not have come to America without Whitman. Now that would be an odd … populous democracy, and in India, returning after my studies in England, I read Whitman again. In me are the … seemed bland, colorless next to the room of intricate murals I had just passed through, the far wall filled to …