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… based on the strange delusion that the United States has become, in the wake of Vietnam, a “pitiful, helpless giant,” … a larger struggle against an enemy called “communism,” but also in the sense that our response to both conflicts rests … World: from Chiang to Batista, from Somoza to Rhee, from Diem to the Shah of Iran, from Lon Nol to Duvalier, we …

… painting (1917) highhat [vb.] (1922) gunny [gunman] (1926) paradiddle (1927) wingding (1927) nooky (1928) snoot [to … into a battleship and then back again; and Yashmeen Halfcourt, a woman with mysterious and perhaps extratemporal … likewise must be always hidden an infinite number of other points—and if we define a ‘world’ as a very large and finite …

… Cathedral. By T. S. Eliot. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $1.25. The Rock. By T. S. Eliot. New York: … of thought through detail, the method of the metaphysicals; and that poetry’s characteristic is complexity. Eliot … there remains, in the “allegory,” a compensation for the audience of greater sensitiveness and understanding. Eliot has …

… was too sick to pick rock in the gold mines. She would accompany him to market three hours away, bumping down … such a hallucinatory journey, that the process remains so medieval—that little has progressed in half a millennium of … mining education poverty human rights environment 26-47 The approach to La Rinconada, a gold-mining town …

… to my own life. Guardian UK interview with Salman Rushdie – Padma, thank you for freeing up your husband for my superior snuggles and editorial comments. The story of condoms – “Quite agitated. Put on … The 40-year anniversary of Alexander Portnoy – “…Portnoy’s Complaint did for the Jewish mother what Jaws did for the …