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… in 1921 during the post-war period of deflation pale into comparative insignificance. The root of the recent trouble … on at Gastonia by the National Textile Workers Union, a Communist group which is outlawed by the American Federation … later at Marion they were no more welcome than the radicals had been at Gastonia. At both places the strikes …

… She wanted her eyes to convey warmth and ease, and also, that this was the right thing to do. She watched him … in helping the suicidal, just the ones who wanted to die with a little dignity. And somehow (usually through word … to be healed floated out to sea on their backs. Some didn’t come back. Through this natural thinning, whatever was left …

… Constant anger is good fodder for emotional combustion, so it’s no wonder that we were suddenly gifted … the story is narrated by a host of voices and freewheeling points of view that give it the feel of a frenetic communal … revolution, gathering content for a podcast, magazine, and website. They and a pack of others—some Ph.D. dropouts, some …

… in the earliest and dimmest stage . —Martin Buber The petals of the dogwood trees are an inflamed guilty pink. Aztec … may be no resistence to this day’s vividness. Clarity must complete our sacrifice. The naked sun in his feathered cloak …

… 40th birthday, the taking stock, the confusion of self that comes from a life now lived in equal parts there and away … I came either.” The Convent School across the street has also changed. The high, wrought iron fence has disappeared, … in her. “Your father was manager of that store.” My mother points to a dilapidated, abandoned building. “It was a co-op …