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… This shift, both in popular opinion and within the medical community, is the focus of Spillane’s work. The book is a … sheds much light on the influence of the Islamic world on medieval Venice. By studying the travels of Venetian merchants … Not only is the book richly informative, it is also beautifully illustrated, frequently with color plates, …
… Washington Pity me in 1973: a second-year graduate student, committed to turning avocation (a fascination with American … my library carrel—scholarly monographs, political periodicals, even the occasional Washington novel—yet my thirst for … life. When I explain to my students (yes, I completed my studies in political science and have been teaching it ever …
… written about that war “are the records of something completely meaningless, a nightmare happening in a void. … but it was the truth about the individual reaction. The soldier advancing into a machine-gun barrage or standing … myth of “meaningless slaughter,” which was often, as Orwell points out, simple truth as far as the individual was …
… to and obsessively talked about, the crop of one year being compared to the crop of another, as if the fortunes of the … make it as a concert soloist, but that was a dream that died during the Depression, and now he only picked up the … only had he lost his heart to Theresa Fortuna, but he had also quit his job at the plant in Greenpoint, where he was …
Fiction
… Town I. Silvio, whom everyone called El Sapo, had been coming the longest, but only during the wet times when the … and the weeds growing high and the bank only sometimes coming to clean up the yard. Not often because it wasn’t a … mean: answered only by the sobbing. The men rose. They tidied up the coarse blankets and sheets that served as their …