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Fine Distinctions
… about animals and their ways. Those stories had sharp points. Aristotle credits Aesop with defending a corrupt … They no longer bother me. Remove them, and fresh fleas will come.” In other words: Oust the politician, and another will … that last bit never really works: We brave dangers, and we die. We tell our stories, and we pass on. But the stories …
… a hard case named Stephen, but this was his first time to come my way. He sat all hunched over with his head down on … and keep an eye out for the hard cases. When I see this kid come in, I go over and say, “What’ll it be,” and he gives me … to wear him out. “Combed his hair with a wagon wheel And died with a tooth ache in his heel.” Then I start really …
… that he is “packing the court.” Yet, as David M. O’brien points out, this is not only the president’s prerogative; it … president does the picking, but ultimately each justice becomes his—or in the case of Justice O’Connor, her—own man. … last of Nagy’s poems not yet translated into English. NAGY died in the early 1980’s, only in his early fifties, Mr. …
… I would guess that he developed this persona, a darkly comic figure with a social consciousness, as a way of … to confess in public. He’s gloomy, fearful, lonely, and—also like Henry—irrepressible. But while Berryman’s … heart, the ritual we’ve learned as children.” But the bird dies anyway, and in the speaker’s hand: “a heart attack,” or …
Essays
… of the large animals were transported to larger zoos, or died. There are now mostly small animals in the Jardin des … strange and surprising ways, traveling back in history to become a meditation on time. He remembers going to the zoo as … human visitors, videos which then live stream on the zoo’s website in order to bring in visitors, if only virtually. It …
… not only the physical security of the person, but included also the security of one’s home, one’s private possessions, … the fatal step was taken which was to lead to the doctrine, common today, that no action in behalf of prohibition is … crouched in fear for the very bullets flying about their bodies, have had their cars wrecked, have suffered damage, …