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… I felt positively banished as a teacher. I recall with uncomfortable vividness the physical surroundings of my first … all the players had done wrong, it was said, was to shave points, in gamblers’ jargon; they didn’t deliberately throw … any sane justification. Others have taught classical or medieval rhetoric to semiliterate, captive freshmen. The …
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… might find many readers. The stories themselves, even the comic ones, are filled with a similar intensity of feeling: … Reading through this issue, again and again, I kept coming back to a poem that speaks to ways of paying … Heart” seems to capture not only the current zeitgeist but also the peculiar talent that all the storytellers in this …
In a Garden IN A GARDEN Here, where iris blades are fine, Blazed the swords of Antonine— They are bits of greenish bronze, Stiller than the plaques of leaves Hanging from plum-covered eaves When noon is quiet as a bonze. . . . A gap in thinking blackens …
… but indifference. They do not realize how quickly our bodies grow callous to even the keenest sensations, and how … our permanent interest to appeal not only to our senses but also to our hearts and minds. A wider realization of this … that it would transform many of the activities of both our composers and our performers. For over a generation now …
… Mexico. By Henry Bramford Parkes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $3.75. The Coming Struggle for Latin America. By Carleton Beals. Philadelphia: J. B. Uppincott Company. $2.50. Since the …
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… dim yellow light in the stairwell, but he was too tired to complain. While I unlocked the door to my apartment, he … couldn’t stand. It was always workingman’s silence during meals with him, but he was looking past me, as if he believed … of them dragged it by the cord, pretending it was a disobedient dog on a leash. I tried to pull Dad away, but he was …