Poetry
… break beating on clean stone great waves with small commingled beating, breaking distant and bright as if in …
… it, and I suspect that the economist, be he capitalistic or communistic, has missed the oracular sense and power in the … greatest virtues are the wise choice of leaders and obedience to them, and whose powers would be comparatively … economy must be an expanding economy, although these points are hidden in his words. I need not go into monopoly …
… Reb and his generals. Crushed and beaten in 1865, they have come storming back through the pages of history to capture … North and South-While not entirely neglected, the Union soldiers have received far less attention from writers and … and balanced in judgments, and surprisingly full of new points of view. Longstreet dominates the early pages, but …
Essays
… reasoned book is a pleasure to read, but its ambition and complexity make it a challenge to review. Although on one … work of Barry Cushman, Richard Friedman, and others, he points, for example, to the fact that two of the Court’s … as well as the New Deal must wither. A second thesis, also implicitly minimized, stresses the fact that Roosevelt …
… the land again. The land was alive with creatures. The animals seemed to lose reason, seemed disorientated, unnaturally … expecting something or someone, so now that it was here any comment on it would have seemed too noticeable. It was … camp and maintenance sheds with the drums of gasoline and diesel fuel, the skyline just exploded in balls of orange …
Memoir
… prayed the Psalms silently, from memory, the monastic melodies echoing in his mind. I heard only the silent cold, … food and Fox News blaring on three televisions. On the recommendation of a Swedish friend, Benjamin, I had applied … a small wing attached only by a common stairwell with entry points to the friars’ kitchen and basement. I moved into the …