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White Boys and River Girls
… real nice, and that’s what she likes to hear. When the guys come around after work, I kind of flip through the … I kissed her breasts as she slept. I kissed her nipples to points and she reached her sleepy arms around me and I moved … or nothing,” I laughed, trying to cheer her up. “I could’ve died with him,” she said. “I was tiny and I could’ve died, …
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North and Norths, True and Otherwise
… dull? If I put my desk next to a window, will my thoughts become insipid? Where is the dragon sleeping? Practitioners of … a line, a meridian, wrapping neatly around the planet. Also called geodetic north, it is constant to the extent that, for our lifetimes, it points pretty much toward Polaris, our North Star for the …
In the Court of Historical Criticism: Alger Hiss’s Narrative
… in 1948, and I was disgusted by the tactics of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (hereafter HUAC or the … pocket and pointed to a headline: Harry Dexter White had died of a heart attack.” Nixon claims that the subcommittee … Of our three autobiographical narrators, only Hiss points out that White’s heart condition had become an issue …
Just About Jefferson
… specialists who had already had their say. . . .” It points out that in place of such experts, there were, among … rather he is determinedly playing the role of a good soldier. Many of the 15 essays in Jeffersonian Legacies are so … and who released to the world for publication on July 4, 1826, which proved to be the date of his death, an optimistic …
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On Whitman, Civil War Memory, and My South
… wouldn’t take long and that his firm couldn’t pay me for my comments. Well, I was busy, and besides that, I figured he … up in some clever and entertaining television commercials too. In one commercial, a long-haired teenager is … after several of these panels, that someone in the audience almost always raised a question about the psyches of …
The Myth of Peace Through Strength
… based on the strange delusion that the United States has become, in the wake of Vietnam, a “pitiful, helpless giant,” … a larger struggle against an enemy called “communism,” but also in the sense that our response to both conflicts rests … World: from Chiang to Batista, from Somoza to Rhee, from Diem to the Shah of Iran, from Lon Nol to Duvalier, we …
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