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A People’s Peace
… The Lost Peace. By Harold Butler. Harcourt, Brace and Company. $2.75. North America: Wheel of the Future. By … that it has ceased to be so now. If such is the case, it is also the right and the duty of those who believe in this … base of the English-speaking people,” Mr. MacCormac points out, “and it is hardly conceivable that they will …
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Writing as Exorcism: Luigi Pirandello in VQR
… riot at its initial performance in Rome in 1921—with the audience chanting “madhouse” and “buffoon”—because of its … well as New York, Tokyo, and Buenos Aires. The play would become hugely influential in modern theatre, at one point … to distance himself from his most successful work? Caesar points out the uncomfortable parallel between the six …
Is the United States a School for Central America?
… soon appointed a “school board,” The National Bipartisan Commission on Central America, made up primarily of amateurs … ideologically valid, leaders who speak of concrete remedies for the difficulties of everyday life reasonably gain a … allowed to take power through the grace of a few generals, will be unable to negotiate fruitfully with the …
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Squatter City
… deeply divided by politics and class, the invasions have become a powerful symbol of the challenges facing President … earth. Scores of people are murdered every weekend, their bodies littering the narrow streets and alleyways of the … powers that allowed him to govern by decree, Chávez passed 26 new laws, including several related to housing that ban …
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Dead Letter
… rode in front, then Guerrier who had just been made a soldier by Papa Toussaint, and Guiaou third. Guiaou had never … “ Poukisa y’ap vini? ” Guerrier asked. What have they come for? “To make us slaves again,” Coachy said shortly. … a horse had not already twisted a leg among the mangroves. Also it might be a long way before they found another broad, …
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Merge
… You and I are stuck with each other, Cordis comments to Moppet subverbally as she puts the teakettle on … back onto a high shelf, and went into the other room. He’s also walked the dog, picked up bottles of vodka and vast … et cetera.… Had his father memorized some script? Had he studied his lines at schools for rich thugs? Well, come to …
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