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… When we open a certain book of plays at random, and come upon such a passage as Night’s candles are burnt out, … that they are perceived by observers to exert upon the bodies that are their neighbours—their contemporaries in … him and posterity; never this particular one. Perhaps I may also speak of it, this thing that I call the “contemporary …

… 14,500 feet, is the highest peak in the continental US. Completing the trail requires three weeks, much of it spent … tents. I’d been awakened by the flickering of a headlamp coming from my brother’s tent, which had collapsed under the … dropping $300 on beer, burgers, and groceries. Two field goals and a small tip for the humorless resort manager later, …

… the television, and, of course, there was the tragedy of it coming at Christmastime too. Actually, because it was the … of these old GMC’s to know their quirks. Hugo Sencillo also knew that there was a good chance that the two girls … in the Hotel de la Condesa in Zacatecas. The bus fumed its diesel exhaust into the brightening morning as he worked …

… American newspapers are survivors of many decades of unruly competition that came down, during the first half of this … closed). The late Barry Bingham, then 80 years old (he died of a brain tumor last year), who had inherited the … Derby decorations. They could afford even to be liberals. Miss Brenner might have suggested, but does not, that …

… by supererogation or misunderstanding, “decadent” has become, as Gilman admits, an epithet of “disquieting allure.” … pedantry and dogmatic ideology, we revive when we read studies so brief yet allusive, elliptical yet savory of detail, … certainly hold a place in the history of sensibility—but also in the history of poetry? The pros and cons of the …