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Spring 1933
… James and Inez got home from work yesterday, they saw smoke coming out an upstairs window. Their bed was in flames. When … made things happen the way they happened. After her parents died in a car crash, Amber moved in with Inez’s family down … well by Amber, who’d been left by herself when her parents died. Hadn’t even married until age 29. Amber was quiet, …
French Canada and the War
… most sober section of Canadian editorial opinion already points out that war is war—and that military exigencies may … Government contracts, the civil service. The little canadiens are impregnated with the spirit of their people’s … people. Olivar Asselin, in a brochure published in 1926, produced figures to prove that the French-Canadians, who …
The Passionate Poet and the Use of Criticism
… personality, that is being repudiated. He was a poet who also wrote a great deal of criticism, which in its day was … did not rediscover them; for one thing, they had never been completely lost, and during the 19th century good poets on … had been able to address itself to a very large, educated audience, but the price paid for that kind of mass …
Elegy for Jake
… layer by layer. . . “Let Zip-Strip do the work.” It is also necessary to scrape. No one driving by the house on a … were going off.         Or that the shadows of women were complaining, “You don’t care for anyone but yourself.” … in charge of a “cultural series”— books with a limited audience but “viable cultural interest.” Why weep for Jake? …
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Godzilla’s Footprint
… on the ocean floor, the scientist pauses a moment and comes face to face with death in the form of a 150-foot-tall … a force as destructive as the atomic bomb, chooses to die alongside Godzilla rather than risk letting his Oxygen … A mysterious sea monster sinking a ship? Yes, but it was also an unmistakable reference to The Lucky Dragon , a tuna …
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The Conquest of Inner Space
… process of the suns. As to the increasing purpose I have no competence to speak, but it’ the thoughts of men have been … the globe that the species inhabits. They are agreed also that this 1·esult is due, not to any inherent defect in … demands, not the relegation to the background of such studies, but their strengthening and broadening by all possible …
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