… was a lecturer extraordinaire worth hearing once. I also wanted to listen to several others on the faculty said … a country store before a pot-bellied stove. A natural and accomplished storyteller, he could take you back in time and … did not live to get far along on his LBJ project. Williams died suddenly July 6, 1979, age 70, at the top of his game, …
… known that impelled Columbus to seek a new route to the Indies—and discover a New World—now more than 500 years ago. … University of California and San Jose State, where he was also director and administrator of the Sourisseau Academy … and Howard Fast). Mr. Ryan was also one of the most accomplished napkin cartoonists on the lounge circuit of the …
… setting of the poem: In Anglo-Saxon England a warrior owed complete fealty to his chief. A warrior was stunned unconscious during a battle in which his chief died. He revived after the battle and found himself … me to joys. He who has put it to a test Knows how cruel a companion is sorrow For one who has few friendly protectors. …
Poetry
… Poem for Donald Justice (1925–2004) The late evening fog comes quickly in again, pours over the same San Francisco … brighter now for lack of simple sunlight. You didn’t die in the rain. You didn’t die in Miami. And I cannot know, will never know, if there …
Fiction
… an address and phone number. He sent her a postcard: Welcome to the big city. I don’t get into town much, but we … mother had met someone else—a real-estate man named Eddie—and seemed happy, this was a sundered family, and Alice … He realized that his father’s young, anxious wife had also drunk more than was usual for her. “Not necessarily,” …
… Virginia Quarterly Review have witnessed a breach in the audiences for contemporary art that seems to grow wider with … edifying content and appealing form coexisted as essential components of Western art, providing the public with … beauty were the hallmarks of Western art, although there is also a long tradition of artists who have asserted the value …