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Reason, Nature, and the Future of American Liberalism
… largely in terms of some new set of persons and proposals, we will have begged the question as to why those … of a vigorous and authentic patriotism. Without wishing to comment on this controversy, I would nonetheless suggest … in all periods seem to differ, and which recent commentators have largely ignored. The issue pertains to the …
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Seeker
… writes in “Out on Bail,” one of eleven linked stories that comprise his 1992 masterpiece Jesus’ Son . “When I realized … codicil, that maybe he will be by the time we read him, is also correct. Here we see the true transference that … which I purposely held off reading for a few years after he died in 1988. I once felt about Carver the way I have come …
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A Trace of Old Road Work
A Trace of Old Road Work There was a time this road was narrower, the blind curve sharper. In due course the state was moved by equal parts of fact and fear to smooth the curve with drill and dynamite. One drill bit sank too deep into the rock to be …
The Candy Spoon
… only for a half day in their married life had Coot been completely in her good graces. The backseat fire burned … Ouida’s house, her old family home. After Ouida’s father died, Ouida and her mother (who died shortly afterward) had come home to live with Aunt …
Wife of the God
… to make amends with a god who was angry because of a crime committed by her ancestors, years before Selassie was born. … can be any age and is replaced by a family member when she dies. Fiashidis fight for a chance to fill their calabashes … dance for the priest during the festival of the drum. Mama, 26, sits at the Troxovi shrine during her initiation as a …
Armageddon - Twelve Years After
… It’s o Great War. By Mary Lee. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. $3.00. As I Saw It. By Alden Brooks. New York: … the part of those at home was increased by the returned soldier’s inability to find words in the face of a cheery “How … inefficiency of the war machine. His book presents many points of argument for amateur and, professional tacticians, …
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