Poetry
Calligraphy Hoping characters ring true, the master assigns just two words, war and peace, for the final class. In light of tradition, he examines every stroke, satisfied our work on war has nowhere else to turn, but peace is another story, looking too …
… really wasn’t news. We have known that since the brave soldiers of General Lee’s army hopelessly shuffled home with … the historical reason, make necessary contemporary comparisons, and do something about it. The past, present, … — lawyers, business men, doctors, clergymen, public officials—either consciously or unconsciously serve the Lords of …
… Marquis James. Indianapolis and New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. $1.50. Democracy’s Norris. By Alfred Lief. New … Plague.” The super-patriot inquisitor, Congressman Martin Dies, the red-gallussed “Wild Man from Sugar Creek,” … plodding rise in the House, George W. Norris of Nebraska also took his seat. That was thirty-seven years ago, and in …
… crises, other nations, which were involved by obligatory commitments, let the aggressive Japanese and Italians break … the “critical moment should arrive”; and that Germany also had assured support. One learns that as soon as it … impoverished peasants, to spread education even among soldiers in the trenches, and to preserve the treasures of …
Essays
… for the liturgy as my friend, whose idea it was to come to Mass. It was my idea to observe it here. Strands of … and should go, neither of these people belonging to us. We also may have been thinking that, in the end, God was no … First World War, which put God in a grave with the men who died for it, were the apex of Art. And the Protestant …
Essays
… the hotel, finding the Biltmore Bowl by accident, unlocked, completely dark but for the red exit sign. We walked through … Then there’s the Alexandria Hotel, now also apartments, where supposedly Rudolf Valentino still … became sad and washed out, and then at some point, died unglamorous deaths, and yet stubbornly live on. Once …