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… especially on the road, my brother and I were a private audience to a nearly carefree Mom. On our drives to Memphis, … the crowd and drift into the blur of bodies, to disappear completely. Joyelle was waiting for us, cross-legged on a … day, where he wore his best suits and carried a locked briefcase and met with military officials and aerospace …
… of the sky. And that passenger was Ronnie Forbes. With a comprehensive glance at his whereabouts he stuffed his book … of Ashenham, to have asserted that the poet had gone and died in foreign parts. Byron and Shelley were exiles, of … it was wide, its high French windows at the other end being also tight shut, though the afternoon sun swept steadily …
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… the face, only the edges of eyes and lips are visible. In 1926, Brancusi sculpted Bird in Space and shipped it to the … interpret.” Interpretation resists regulation: Sanctions become possibilities. If (after David Graeber) bureaucracy … measures the spread by opening his own arms, their bodies pressed together, their faces nearly touching. Once, I …
… of Abundance. By Stuart Chase. New York: The Macmillan Company, $2.50. The Choice Before Us. By Norman Thomas. New … and there Mr. Chase lets the matter rest. His proposals for change and transition are indefinite: he has no … a social purpose, however am biguous, did unite us as soldiers.” The plaint is that modern society means hatred, …
… Parched A Newcomer's Notes Every departure is a confession, an admission of longing, of desire, of unbridled want. It is also a testament to hope, an act of faith that there is … hardcore rationing, which, despite what people say, studies show they really aren’t doing. My husband is a patient, …
… The values ascribed to folks who have preferred to live and die in Dixie in any event make problematic the very notion … states’ rights but instead exhibited statesmanship, had become “visionaries”? Why didn’t the white South spare … class that was dependent on federal subsidies and was also closely allied with the lily-white bureaucracy of the …