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Coming to Terms
… Coming to Terms In the hospital Mac told everyone he worked … rolls under his ankles, and pillows and pads at pressure points, bony parts. There seemed to be no way to avoid … Several weeks later, one of Mac’s old high school buddies showed up. He was short and slight and wore cowboy …
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The Lost Herd
… herself on a tree root while fleeing an angry elephant; she died soon after. “But she was old and fat.” “The elephant?” … our queries about elephant sightings with waves toward all points of the compass. At a Tuareg camp of flimsy beehive … Mali Sahara elephants endangered animals water shortage 4-26 By Anthony Ham Photography by Carlton Ward, Jr. …
Eve
… a hairpin in her mouth and a lock of hair lifted in her comb. “You know.” She had just plucked the hairpin from her … up these lampposts. Ice on the windshields, salt crystals and slush in the streets,” he said. “Not to mention … be talking about a funeral. A famous jazz clarinetist had died. The accents were heavy. The man and woman listened to …
Women Interpret Women
… Grand Canyon. By V. Sackville-West. Doubleday, Doran and Company. $2.50. Primer for Combat. By Kay Boyle. Simon, and … and require no praising; works of no merit at all will die of themselves, they require no killing.” Yet in the same … in the book, but the objective scenes and incidents are also well handled, save that too many are crowded upon the …
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Long Division
… their current attractiveness from…isolating people from competing value systems,” Marty continues, while cults and … to recruit new members, cliques number only a few individuals and are closed to outsiders. Think of the table of … we’re willing to set aside our internal differences and die to preserve what we imagine is ours.  clique party sect …
Reality Again
… I think, oniy a coincidence that Unamuno’s perplexity is also mine: the fiery Basque philosopher is fervid. Here lie … abstracted reality of books is more gratifying, comfortable, and exciting than that ordinarily calm and … and audibly, of expatiating on his own surprises, becomes a substitute for a reality outside of books that is …
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