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The Authoress
… she prize her name in this town as impeccable lady . And ladies did not sit around in public restaurants at two o’clock … contents into her upturned lips. Silent and odorless and comforting, it shot down the clean chute of her perfectly … Outside on Marigny Avenue the Buicks and Continentals and Cadillacs were parked every which way on the roots …
A Satisfactory Life
… A Satisfactory Life Eva had come to know her house so well, each room of it, that on … flurry they transposed themselves into a pair of cardinals that had been huddled there in the cold. Their abrupt … these days. Eva’s friends had begun to fall ill and die, a few of them, and those who remained—oh— the effort of …
A Circus at the Center of the World
… living in the village of 1797 for six months when the soldiers came. He was a timid man, and not without reason. To … in the village of 1791 kept five for himself and no one complained so neither did Manau. He taught cheerlessly every … said he was dead. So she was a free woman, and wasn’t Manau also a stranger from the city? The possibilities were quite …
The Balance Sheet of Behaviorism
… as dress. Yesterday Freud was king and the knowing ones had complexes, uncovered surpressed desires, got “psyched,” and … leisurely, and decadent world of Europe’s old culture capitals that was riding insouciant towards its doom in 1914. … real objects in nature, the scornful rejection of “vulgar” common sense and all its data—such were the hurdles over …
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From the VQR Vault: Identity on the Brink
… Summer 1983 The fabled assumption is that people long to come to the US because of the opportunities it offers: free … education, a chance to work, basic liberty. For children coming alone, the truth is often much darker than that. … folk music, is not only a thing of beauty in itself; it is also an indispensable basis for art development.  George …
Amelia Earhart’s Coat: For Blair’s Grandmother
… she had to lift herself on tip-toe, her round, bare heels coming out of her shoes, to reach his lips. Hettie was … her eyes, walked over to the full length mirror. She studied herself close up. Her hair sticky from the salt in the … not just across the ocean but around the world. After a false start in Oakland, not a month before—the plane did a …
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