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… me; they behold only themselves. Never once have I been complimented on the way my glinting veneer catches the … goes now. And don’t expect me to take you back if someone points out during your dissertation defense that you were … I could become a group text and organize a picnic for you ladies, rather than keep vibrating my way through this …
… her in any clear light, while it is certain that at some points, intentionally as well as unintentionally, she misled … second of three children and the only survivor. Her mother died in childbirth when Franchise was still an infant, and … capital, became more severe than ever. In the spring of 1726 she realised that the crash was approaching. Her pride …
Poetry
… are dream’s jazz. You’ve never heard this stuff? Well, also popular last week we had an older groom the night … after all day at the pool, her tenderness in restive competition with a husband who has slept beside a wife for … can call it that, leaves very little secret. A rhythm steadier, smoother, humbler than waves: inhalations the size of …
… a Profession. By Alfred Vagts. New York: W. W. Norton and Company. $4.75. The most stimulating hypothesis in Dr. … aristocrats tend to become officers and your successful soldiers seep into the aristocracy, that with the passage of … it seeks not merely control of the army and navy but also an identification with the fighting services and with …
Essays
… put east at the top of their cosmos, as did most medieval Christians, who saw Jerusalem as the center of the … needle aligns itself with the Earth’s magnetic fields, it points south as much as it points north, take your pick, and … is to say. Neither wisdom nor pain. Call it humility. 26-34 By Garret Keizer Illustration by Stephen Doyle …
… to a man-made moon. Each window leaks a draft of cool, reveals a scrap of blue tempting us up. We pull back against the … waves do their pre-historic two-step, shuffle and glide, die and die again, wind-tossed, noisy but solemn, the moves classy …