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… With the purchase of Lucasfilm by the Walt Disney Company for $4.05 billion in stock and cash in 2012, one can … with our readers, we need to tackle these questions. Our website now attracts more than 300,000 unique annual viewers … deliver our stories in the formats that best match our audience members’ reading preferences. Where our readers are, …
In Matera In Matera, where the darkness rose from the sockets of caves under the city, like a town in Pennsylvania where the coal fires burn miles down, year after year, unquenchable, I dreamed again of you, so seldom in all this time, and not even you, …
… I felt positively banished as a teacher. I recall with uncomfortable vividness the physical surroundings of my first … all the players had done wrong, it was said, was to shave points, in gamblers’ jargon; they didn’t deliberately throw … any sane justification. Others have taught classical or medieval rhetoric to semiliterate, captive freshmen. The …
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… might find many readers. The stories themselves, even the comic ones, are filled with a similar intensity of feeling: … Reading through this issue, again and again, I kept coming back to a poem that speaks to ways of paying … Heart” seems to capture not only the current zeitgeist but also the peculiar talent that all the storytellers in this …
… Brandreth, like the rest of us, had a character commingled of many opposites. We are partly what others make … then it raged in shrill feminine uproar; then seemed to die away, returned again, more complaining than ever, faded … together. Afterwards they played cards for infinitesimal points and squabbled over their gains and losses. It looked …
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… of VQR on “The Female Conscience” —a term broad enough to encompass many ideas and arguments, even contradictory ones. … and importantly, we are not publishing these individuals because of gender, but rather because of their … received an Overseas Press Club award for her film on our website . (The New York Times came in second.) Crow edited …