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… to obliterate mankind as well. Yet, as Michael Joseph Smith points out in his essay, “virtually from the beginning of … to law school. The larger questions presented by a world of competing sovereign states seemed more compelling.” Winning … as a research fellow of the American Institute of Indian Studies in New Delhi. An associate professor of sociology at …
Essays
… horse first, and Saul second, indicates how far I am from comprehending the mind of a truly religious sensibility, for … “a tempestio in a teapotio,” the usual jockeying for audience that every generation is heir to, while some of it … line, “The land was ours before we were the land’s,” points to not only the irony of a colonial situation in …
… Pepys. Does life hold any more exciting adventure than the comprehension of other lives? So that one opens a biography, … on which they strut. Perhaps Edward Everett, who did not die till 1865, can come to life in his biographer’s hands. … for famous fountains have to be gone at systematically. He also improved his time at Florence by writing some really …
Essays
… works. Hence these questions are undoubtedly our starting points: What makes a society? What constitutes success and … unemployment during the German “high prosperity” of 1926 and 1927, the unprecedented boom of 1935 and 1936 in … wherever there were leaders of non-gentry origin—Keir Hardie, Ramsay MacDonald, Lloyd George—they were Scotch, Welsh, …
Criticism
… long-term social and political impact of the flood was also enormous, a point Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly … at times worn perilously thin when the same questions and comments keep coming up. I’m afraid that Cheng has found … When Cheng was twelve, he has said, he and two of his buddies wrote adventure stories in a “fantastical …
Reporting
… two long lines of protesters were working their way past soldiers performing ID checks and pat-downs. The mood at the … so much as a question. By that point, the military’s senior command had already issued a statement saying that the … checkpoint with the rest of the sweating, chanting mass, I also heard the first of many off-putting remarks that would …