… system, Broder asks: whence does leadership in America come and in what patterns? Broder tries to analyze America’s … by Washington. The younger leaders, depressingly, also reflect the decline of American institutions like the … stand on a chair in shirt sleeves, and literally get an audience almost hysterical with an impassioned speech on …
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… he declared. There is something plaintive about his work (“Come to help me, words,” he called out. “Run to me!”), which … not live long.” Orten knew that his life had been slit. He died in a bizarre accident in Prague in the late summer of … and Charlock (1941), were printed under pseudonyms. He also prepared two more collections that were published after …
… people as that people appears today. Observers have come to this negative conclusion in a way which is typical, … They have begun with Europe. There they have observed bodies of folk-music integrated with what appear to be tight … broader objectives and an equipment adequate to the broader points of view. Among these I shall mention but one, the …
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… Record of Bergen County, NJ. He is a recipient of the 2003 Community Service Award from the Society of the Silurians, … after a stint in Vietnam, he resigned from West Point to become a writer and peace activist. His poems on the war …
… debt. When an American with a five-thousand-dollar income pays an income tax of twenty-two per cent instead of … that prophet of misery, Carlyle, when he wrote that “nine meals are all that stand between civilization and barbarism.” … public relief program, except for two highly significant points. If private investment is to carry the load, first …
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… The Wasteland (1922). In the margins were exclamation points my father had drawn, which were meant to indicate … and support myself by teaching college, because I knew I’d die if I couldn’t write, but I didn’t want to die because I … still spoke and thought highly of her. On October 26, 1775, Wheatley sent a poem and letter to George …