… for that. For the next decade, it “did almost nothing” [126]; it did not insist on more than tokenism or dispel … Board of Education, which insisted on specific remedies and expressly sanctioned busing as one such. Thus after … often disagreeing with Mr. Wilkinson on relatively small points, but more often agreeing or being persuaded on larger …
Essays
… after the presentation. I told her that a plant I loved had died. When I told her I was there so that I could learn what … air— soothing me, frustrating me. I felt I needed it, but I also resented its presence. I left my job, I left the old … the petiole, a blade . If you include the petiole, it becomes a frond . The brown wisps sweeping the floor beneath …
Profiles
… for fighting against the system of apartheid. David is uncomfortable, I can tell. Throughout the conversations about … a car accident. Yet there were people like them who, though also steeped in their own circumstances, did break away and … on you,’ ” the interrogator tells me. “ ‘You’re going to die. And the person that’s going to hang you is one of your …
… Horizons. By Geoffrey Johnson. London: The C. W. Daniel Company. 5 s. In “Summer Goes On,” by Lawrence Lee, there … her like a hind; And down the world the hunt shall never die. The second poem mentioned above, contains a touch of … through the frost toward the blaze in mine host’s parlor; also “The Bakery Yard,” with one-legged George, the …
Reporting
… at cocktail parties I’ve been dying for the conversation to come around to Saddam’s capture and spider-hole, so that I … (April 21): The New York Times reports that Chris Hondros died yesterday about 10 PM after several hours in a coma. The story also identifies Michael Christopher Brown, who was one of …
… I had abandoned much of my home-grown New Criticism for headier Continental approaches. My most dazzling Hopkins … Hillis Miller, then a respected phenomenologist rapidly becoming celebrity deconstructionist. After I left Miller’s … balance point is achieved in Candide , and the opposing viewpoints find their equilibrium, not in the ascendancy of one …