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… trip into the town, to the Coleman’s store, where he was welcome to sit on the porch and smoke his cigarettes—the whites … to get him to start going again, paid him a visit. He also hunted alone, without dogs, and wished he could keep … moved far away generations ago, and two of them had since died. When he was alone deep on his side of the swamp, he …

… Notes on Current Books, Autumn 1977 If Earl Warren had accomplished nothing more during his 16-year tenure than to … The result is a work whose usefulness extends beyond studies of modern poetry or the Fugitive and Agrarian movements … subject for biography. The author’s elegant prose only points up a cruel contrast to poor Mabel’s lack of wit. …

… shrill bombardment and find, if not sleep, at least an accommodation with the noise. Darren and I seat ourselves at a … it, too, passes. I ask a waitress for the bathroom and she points outside. Soldiers and security guards lounging on the backs of pickup …

… a bind of its own, the wadding of already loaded public rituals and private relationships with yet more layers of … diverse, with knotted, enigmatic, but generally low-octane complaints. Lauren and Sarah have opened their relationship … idea that a story is better, truer, more useful if audience participation is an explicit feature of its design.  …

… imagine that de Gaulle sought his place at the head of that company out of personal pride, out of his fierce sense of … Perhaps the story should be left at that. We have also succeeded in demonstrating in the last few years the … cosmopolitan dream of the promise of the 18th century embodied in the enlightened vision of French philosophy and the …