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… into the camera, their limp clothes hanging on thin bodies, their children climbing up on boxes to tend to roaring … and erudition, he too often fails to make his points clear—or to make them at all; certainly tighter … entries on dominant schools of novel writing, and finally 26 entries on major illustrators. Given the current interest …
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… back then. Born in a rain-soaked city by the sea, I had come of age and driven eastward to Montana, where the West … Looking across the bucktoothed sights at the thin metatarsals ridging my sock, I thought how beautifully complex a … and nickel. Then, the process falters. The star cools. It dies explosively in a supernova, hurling metal into the …
… friends. He offers not only his unvarnished opinions, but also the clash and swirl of contradictory beliefs and … out of malice or greed or spite, but out of willful and studied ignorance. They believed everything they had … will forever be the 18-year-old Marine watching journalists come and go as they please while I and my friends must stay …
… thirst for the real. Everything in them is serious. “For reals,” as Marusya would say. Also, war movies always leave me … I was nostalgic for gunfire, trench fleas, and hand-to-hand combat. Drank, watched A Ballad about a Soldier , thought about my grandfather, who was declared …
… No Man Alone Now “You could always come back,” said Hemingway about the American culture he had … Hemingway leaves behind him the European systems, he also abandons his own American earth: Our people went to … post-War disenchantment which Hemingway expressed in “Soldier’s Home”— the living along “without consequences,” this …
… treaties, The Permanent Court of International Justice, the Commission for the Codification of International Law, the … the Roman Empire, is a thing not to be discussed before ladies. On the other hand the French, being schooled thereto … collapse was assured by failure to confer in advance upon points which were held subject to discussion and agreement. …