Essays
… with William Faulkner? His name is synonymous with complexity. It pervades his style, his storylines, and the … is the case with Sanctuary. It is a much debated and studied book. A story of big-city scandal, it is atypical of … a safe-cracking incident and found him in New Orleans in 1926, dressed to the height of fashion, his tie displaying a …
… By Harry Elmer Barnes. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. Two Volumes. $10.00. The “new” history, fathered by … with the scope of his ambition. Even to list without comment the main activities and institutions of man, from … the Great, Plotinus, and Joan of Arc. Perhaps they explain also why nearly one half of the two thousand pages is …
Fiction
… Instigator. The best way to settle a dispute is: Compromise, Vote, Debate, Lead pipe. I think about my … on the long pavement. Slowly, like young plants, our bodies rotated toward the sun. Sligo and I turned east, toward … God create something then ignore its fate? Was the devil also a part of God? If understanding was freedom, why had it …
… real nice, and that’s what she likes to hear. When the guys come around after work, I kind of flip through the … I kissed her breasts as she slept. I kissed her nipples to points and she reached her sleepy arms around me and I moved … or nothing,” I laughed, trying to cheer her up. “I could’ve died with him,” she said. “I was tiny and I could’ve died, …
… in 1948, and I was disgusted by the tactics of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (hereafter HUAC or the … pocket and pointed to a headline: Harry Dexter White had died of a heart attack.” Nixon claims that the subcommittee … Of our three autobiographical narrators, only Hiss points out that White’s heart condition had become an issue …
Essays
… wouldn’t take long and that his firm couldn’t pay me for my comments. Well, I was busy, and besides that, I figured he … up in some clever and entertaining television commercials too. In one commercial, a long-haired teenager is … after several of these panels, that someone in the audience almost always raised a question about the psyches of …