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… For a generation of young people, the Gaza Strip has become a place where dreams go to die. Young boys stand amid the wreckage of their family home … the horse cart as we pull into a pitch-black alley and points to a street corner a few yards away. “That’s where …
… watchtowers. Reviewers and critics are saying, and I am in complete agreement, that Ellen Glasgow and John P. Marquand … and Mr. Marquand is not a matter to be taken into the handiest laboratory for scientific measurement. The most … Miss Glasgow and Mr. Marquand have a good many other points in common, along with certain quite obvious …
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… from an open-cockpit plane in the 1930s, on one of the only comprehensive surveys of the coast. Siggi sails by comparing … with other matter—trillions of them pass through our bodies every second. So detecting neutrinos requires using a … Each of these stations determines the precise position of points which are the basis for all other measurements in …
… to a man-made moon. Each window leaks a draft of cool, reveals a scrap of blue tempting us up. We pull back against the … waves do their pre-historic two-step, shuffle and glide, die and die again, wind-tossed, noisy but solemn, the moves classy …
… the eponymous Columbus is a passive spectator, a built-in audience to an action in which he plays no part. More … the sheer amount of verse turned out by Ames, from 1726, the first year of his almanac, until his death in 1764, … vista westward, for, turning his back on New England, he points to “Lands yet unknown and streams without a name,” …
… himself—where, with an act of positive virtue, he actually commits himself to play the role of Tom Sawyer which he has … increasing vehemence, the utilitarian. Huck represents both points of view. In small matters he is our archpragmatist: … in these late stories results from the fact that he had died in his author’s hands. Huck in his own book was free, …