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The Day Race
… sheets, torn metal messages whirl upward as the car comes to rest against the gapped white fence, depleted, … dull yellow fields. Who knows the end of things before it comes? Who can gauge and guess the trivial masterpieces we cling to like an old house our mother died in years ago? The roar is tremendous, it stuns the …
Poetry
Wandering Cataphasis that Begins Outside <br />My New Jersey Window
… Window Ex hiis clarissime constat maximum  absolute incomprehensibiliter  intelligibile pariter et … chamber the trees trace in              winter of the woman come from the tropics now              licking the marvel of … doxology the slope and solemnity of lemons soft yellow petals on a secondhand dress the yes to slow dance the parting …
The Theater of Politics
… the poet claimed to have established the first direct communication between a leader and his people since the age … is linked with the theater.” For the crowd becomes the audience and chorus as well as the instrument of rhetorical … that created the Free State of Fiume. Finally, on December 26th, the Italian cruiser Andrea Doria bombarded …
Bismarck and His American Friends Otto Count Zu
… interesting to glance over the American newspaper comments. The Spanish-American War had not yet ended. On … Goettingen in honor of four prominent Americans who had studied there. Bismarck was invited to attend. In his telegram … although he was very fond of fighting and drinking, he also needed congenial intellectual companionship. Was it a …
The Curse of Oil
… restaurants feeding the great American stomach a steady diet of hometown pride and manky coleslaw. A postcard from … asked while we were waiting for one of her screens to come up. “Business or pleasure?” “Business, I suppose,” I … disputes or simple sabotage meant to score political points. In 1999, though, a whopping 497 instances of …
Was the War Useless?
… the progress of nations be conceived without it? I Let us compare first the situation of Europe in 1914 and its … of the population, and it cannot be denied that from many points of view the poor live better today than the rich of … for a time had been able to make out with those raw materials furnished by the country itself, had had to hunt new …