… spite of everything, there was a balanced philosophy in medieval times; and some very unbalanced philosophies in later … statement as the following? “It is not for nothing that the comfortable and prosperous Merchant tells a tale that is … not gross in the manner of the Miller’s Tale.” The merchant comfort able and prosperous? Outwardly, to the casual …
… in disgust. “You’re not an actress, you’re a human garbage compactor.” “Didn’t you know,” she says, now deliberately … Then somebody— maybe Julia’s younger sister who was also a camper—told what had happened. It soon spread like a … her mother? There is no mention of her. Why not? Maybe she died in childbirth . Maybe she committed suicide .( Be …
… At the same time he clarifies the strategic and tactical complexities of the battle by portraying it as a series of … of flesh and blood emerges from the footnotes. LITERARY STUDIES Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews, by J. M. … equity: raise the minimum wage level by a few percentage points, and expand “the special tax credits for fully …
Fiction
… in Washington, D.C., a blond and handsome man who was to become a World War II hero, a fighter pilot of exceptional … Another husband (they thought) was a poet. Avery’s mother died (she of the bookstore), and her father remarried. They … quite satisfied with them both, and with the evening. 126-131 By Alice Adams …
Essays
… was in Berlin a few months back for a concert featuring two compositions by Ernst Toch, my grandfather: a Cello Concerto … and I was taking advantage of a break in the rehearsals at the celebrated Kammermusiksaal of the Philharmonic to … the pyre Close-pressed by the mob. Before the flames had died The taverns were full again, Baskets of olives and …
Essays
… from my first cousin to the daughter of a duke; no lord compels me to marry a girl or widow from the manor, no … Not subject to the persecutions of ecclesiastical busybodies, I decide that it would be pleasant to take a young … of the oppressed is perhaps the most inexplicable, as it is also the most important, fact in all history), have been …