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Devilish Forces
… given time. The fact you got out just means one of your buddies got bumped to the top of the list.” As if on cue, I … opinion on a sudden and insistent offer he’d received of “compromising information relating to the Russian military.” … and few make any pretense of entertaining alternative points of view. With subtitles like Spies, Murder, and the …
The Lonesome Young Man on the Flying Trapeze
… Young Man on the Flying Trapeze For some months “The Human Comedy” was on the best seller lists for books and double … with his girl’s demand for reality by leaving his job also and moving out of town into the certainty of … home in Armenia. Veneration for the dead dim heroes of medieval Armenia distills a peace which passes the feeble …
Eminent Victorians and History
… things the book managed to do. But it did not manage to become history. Strachey got only a second in the historical … bungling, her genius for organization. In both of these studies he perceives the ways in which simple human affection … of fundamental importance.” Arnold did nothing, as Briggs points out, to place games on an equality with work at …
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Dry Days
… far. “They will roll you,” the ranch matriarch warns. Next comes a swift procession of people. One leans in to give a … of all that dung, give the infants to the higher mammals with the softest fur.…   3. Purple petals struggle for … sprout. Durum wheat, soybeans, flaxseed, canola, and peas die in dirt.  “It ain’t gonna grow in the bins,” one farmer …
The Economic Deflation of Free Will
… most of my associates now turn their backs on the comfortable hint of objective economic drift, and put on the … manifestation is in the retirement of political expedients and the forward rush of economic problems. England … public utilities grew from twenty-two in 1919 to 1,029 in 1926, and he found that after the world war (1919-1928), no …
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The Price of Black Ambition
… ambition like Black History Month, a celebratory month I’ve come to dread as a time when people take an uncanny interest … dreams and black possibilities.” In that same essay, Coates also writes about how the narrative of personal … written helped. Seeing so many supportive people in the audience helped. The booksellers were a delight. I was next …
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