… Group could not see or talk to one another they learned to communicate by knocking on the stone walls of their cells. … twang, evidence of the number of Somalis who have lived, studied, and worked abroad. From the roof of the hotel, I … rule, British Somaliland gained its independence on June 26, 1960—followed by Italian Somaliland five days later. In …
… By Oliver Perry Chitwood. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company. $4.00. Thoreau. By Henry Seidel Canby. Boston: … inevitably follow.” Henry Thoreau was born in 1817 and died in 1862. Mr. Gerald W. Johnson dates the beginning of … who seems most like our contemporary. As Mr. Johnson points out, he was the first representative of “big …
… but indifference. They do not realize how quickly our bodies grow callous to even the keenest sensations, and how … our permanent interest to appeal not only to our senses but also to our hearts and minds. A wider realization of this … that it would transform many of the activities of both our composers and our performers. For over a generation now …
… Mexico. By Henry Bramford Parkes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $3.75. The Coming Struggle for Latin America. By Carleton Beals. Philadelphia: J. B. Uppincott Company. $2.50. Since the …
Poetry
… lack of graciousness, the salt-laced crest and crumble of bodies mimicking waves, the freakish winds and seasonal …
Essays
… objects hung on walls, tucked under glass, backlit on pedestals: a toaster, a child’s pedal car, a modem handmade in … pregnancy stick. A positive drug test. An axe. They come from Taipei, from Slovenia, from Colorado, from Manila, … longer than their relationship, he said: “made of sturdier material.” When Olinka and Dražen finally found a …