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Winter 2025 Cover with photo by Lys Arango of 3 coal miners sitting on a bench during lunch

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Spring in Death Valley
… several hundred other cattle in addition to the draught animals, started south from Salt Lake, bound for California, It … sure the trip was possible, and the procession started. The company was composed largely of young men, but there were a … the sink hole where their abandoned wagons lay, and the bodies of some of their comrades, and cried out, “Goodbye, …
Berryman’s Last Hurrah
… surface at least, John Berryman’s suicide in 1972 seemed to come at a time when life had begun to reward him most amply. … himself and left/that fragrant area. /When the mind dies it exudes rich critical prose.” But Berryman exuded … Anyone who is familiar with his work may also note the many points at which this volume intersects Berryman’s poetic …
That Southern Languor
… afternoon is really evening in effect. Now, if you will, compare the phonetic brevity and flatness of the word … idealization of work in our minds ran counter to other ideals which were more inherent and profound. Not so, I fancy, … on a plane with religious idealizations. From the medieval idea of work as self-discipline through religious …
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John Hughes Goes Deep: The Unexpected Heaviosity of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
… who takes her shirt off and a picturesque decapitation. He also had Ferris Bueller. I watched the film in a state of … Ferris himself (Matthew Broderick, unbearably young) comes across as a charming manipulator utterly devoted to … by his own conflicted impulses, torn between outrage and obedience. In a very real sense, he needs someone to take …
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Lyres’ Club
… Lyres’ Club Christopher Nogy's Passion for Medieval Instruments On February 24, 2014, Christopher Nogy … as the instrument. In history, there have only been three complete instruments found. There are only three … it was put together. So if we build exactly to the materials and dimensions, all we have to do is figure out what it …
Who Killed History? An Academic Autopsy
… the country. There, a talent for writing for a broad audience is considered secondary at best, a mark of … national score on the History Subject Test has fallen 61 points, from 564 to 503. Clifford Adelman of the U. S. … 1991 (a typical issue), counting only those in English, 263 new book titles are considered. The list of “books …
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