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We a Baddd People
… Still big breasted but now with missing teeth due to a diet of candy kept in thin plastic bags and warm Coke or … twenty-​four-​ounce plastic mug. She is my grandmother, but also forever the daughter of a “Chinaman” and an educated … day he left, the same way I remember when he first started coming around Alexandria driving slow in his father’s truck …
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Jubilant America
… Jubilant America America’s Jubilee: How in 1826 a Generation Remembered Fifty Years of Independence. By … ahead lay civil war. For them, as for us, the past was a comfort.” Challenging the fashions of conventional … double apotheosis of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, who died within hours of each other on the nation’s 50th …
Early Spring
… damask Celsiana, pink Felicite Parmentier, Louise Odier, Marquise Bocella, and Rose de Rescht, its double … no human concern for our human life. We are asking that you come out to here and call myself and Mr. Duke Crawford out … in the spring. Now I have something to write about.” 326-340 By Samuel Pickering …
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Beyond Empire’s Grip
… in her fifth month. Three months earlier, she and Ethan had compiled a list of twenty criteria for a home, a place to … no building codes, to allow building with natural materials. Sarah and Ethan would not use cars or airplanes. They … and coconuts from Thailand, I tasted an actual locavore diet. At the Possibility Alliance there was no sugar, …
Irony In Utopia: the Discovery of Nancy Lewis
… I was born and reared in Fairhope, Alabama, a “utopian” community, a single-tax colony founded on the eastern shore … the Bowen estate, not she, had the title to the land. She also was reconsidering her previous refusal to sell out and … would be the community’s unrivaled leader and spokesman. He died a month before my tenth birthday (I was the youngest of …
What’s Love, and Candor, Got to Do With It?
… intellectual in the best sense of the term. His passionate commitment to a wide range of ideas and perhaps more … from which most Americans can never fully awaken. As West points out, “The Los Angeles upheaval [he insists it was … in the religion department and chairs its Afro-American Studies Program) and a black man subject to daily, humiliating …
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