… sprang from what was least mature in his character. His ideals of conduct—courage and unselfishness—are present, to be … that the derivative poet cannot free his life, so far as it comes to expression in his poems, from bondage to the … colonists with “some well-dressed gentlemen and well-fed ladies . . . Who spent their years despairing of the Republic …
… from its membership for nonpayment of dues. The memoirs also painted less than flattering portraits of some of … was quoted as saying to Warren that he would solve the Communist problem by “kill[ing] the S. O. B.’s.” They … and biologically impossible. An American who would not die fighting rather than yield to this infamy does not …
Profiles
… hand for the priesthood and on the other for graduate studies at the University of Chicago. What a bitter irony it is … a Jihadist, “is not ‘the war in Iraq,’ it’s a Christian complicity in sin. It’s MY complicity in systems of sin and violence.” Isn’t it …
Fine Distinctions
… each passing year. In 2017, an average of 130 Americans died every day of opioid overdose. A federal report issued … painfully slow economic recovery. Cast the French word that comes into English as despair , and you have hopelessness, … is much like that. He used it to denote an all-encompassing dread, the kind of fear that no fight-or-flight …
… a list of what they see and hear. A girl asks if she should also list the way she feels—she’s the one who’ll cite the … doing seventh grade a second time, this same assignment also a second time. Pressed, he says he sees exactly what he … the cedar fringe, watching the hawk float along the thermals like a leaf. And for a moment, belittled by indifferent …
Poetry
… July 27th, 1919: Eugene Williams, 17, found dead at the 26th Street Beach, who apparently drowned after being struck …