Poetry
… part raids. Annals XII.17 Deciding that they should die by the just doom of war. Annals XII.39 Encounters … officers, or at times without their knowledge. Annals XIV.26 Having harried by fire and sword all whom he thought … the East was rather pleasing. Agricola 20 Peace had become as much dreaded as war. Annals XIV.35 But heaven …
… Shall hunger: Man shall spend equally. Our goal which we compel: Man shall be man. Two poets, Wystan II. Auden and … individualist, sceptical of the feasibility of Communist ideals. “Hugh M’Diarmid,” the pseudonym of Christopher Murray … from the Spring branches The desires falling across their bodies like blossoms. Such passages as this, which may raise …
… War. By Lieutenant Colonel W. F. Kernan. Little, Brown and Company. $1.50. America’s Strategy in World Politics. By … Sea power, for example, may be an absolutely essential ingredient of the kind of overseas offensive that Colonel Kernan … that is far from untenable—that Wilson’s fourteen points were more important as weapons in overcoming our …
Profiles
… ,” he was in the midst of furious writing. Having just come off the success of his novel, Point Counter Point , … of essays and only one more novel. In VQR’s mission to become a progressive journal of national and international … dealing with political and artistic concerns of a wide audience, by assuring diversity of content. Eric Pinker of the …
… A Puff of Roses A medieval folk belief suggests this approach for shedding stray … informal political chamber of the capital, where a common tobacco farmer might rub with the governor. “It’s … watch. “I guess in an hour.” Shelley finishes her drink and points to the champagne glasses. “They sparkle, John; they …
Fiction
… Sr. had been in the country for a week. He’d decided to come early to revisit some of the places he’d been during … had come early to Vietnam. Rowen Sr.’s former Air Force buddies were spread all around the aviation industry, the … He sat almost primly, his knees close together, a briefcase on the ground parallel to his thighs, a benign, …