… at a closed, locked school. Abandoned is the word that comes to my mind — a word with deep, hurtful implications … modern-day protest — much less full-blown civil disobedience — had come to race relations in the United States. I … of Lucy Vaughn ( “Miss Lucy”) and is one who also points to the relative independence of the African-American …
Essays
… watching the place fill up with everything from a gigantic commercial viewing tower to a Jesus wax museum. For another, … Apace, Shaara’s novel found an ingenious expedient for conveying the human dimension of the battle by shifting back and forth among the points of view of selected, mainly well-known historical …
… economic crisis and have even grown bored with it; what comes as a surprise to even the best-informed in the United … Welsh problems and debating the Labour Government’s proposals for limited home rule (or devolution: the new anodyne … Tydfil, the Jerusalem of Welsh socialism and Keir Hardie’s old stronghold, The victory at Merthyr also represents …
… though, he’d single-handedly saved a platoon of his buddies—they’d been ambushed—by hurling grenade after grenade … was a terrific little ballplayer—that we were some keystone combination, as good as Eddie Stanky and Pee Wee Reese—I … fought in the War: Billy Southworth, Jr., son of the Cardinals’ manager, who won a Distinguished Flying Cross for …
Memoir
… in January. These surgeries were to fix toes mangled by the combination of a tall body, loose joints, and a girlhood … “Cursed, cursed, cursed—cursed by the God YHW. You will die cursed. Cursed you will surely die. Cursed by … to each other. Or is that too much to hope for? April 26 Today, I drove Erin back to Murfreesboro for the first …
… pang and looked out for relief from his high hotel room commanding Johore Bahru and the Causeway. Then he turned … or at the least a kind of gaucherie, a sentimentality, Also risky. So Jacqueline’s stepfather had been “O. K.” From … It would be his first home leave since Eleanor died, suddenly, shockingly, of hepatitis. This time there …