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A Knight to Remember
… seen a woman in a bathing suit before. He says, “My father died right where you’re standing.” The words surprise him; … seeking sympathy. It is a striking moment because it reveals to Simon, and to the reader, that he is not as immune to … as he believes. If Knight’s characters have one thing in common, it is this essential misunderstanding of themselves. …
Roosevelt’s New Party
… and respect for the rights of minorities. At each of these points the Parties of dictatorship differ from the parties … and national leadership is far from synonymous with complete control. Party discipline has party patronage as … violence converting itself into control so long as the soldiers remain with the government; and the American army is …
Joyce’s Distant Music
… by many critics as a masterpiece. For the director who died in old age not long before its opening, the movie was … expands throughout the book, reaching perfection, an all-encompassing depth and range, in the final chapter, … better if they slept on comfortable spring beds, Mary Jane points out that the coffin is to remind them of their last …
The Saint and the Sage: the Fiction of Raja Rao
… and native sensibility clash? If, for example, a writer comes from a Third World culture which views man as having … of the artistic event, the preoccupations of the witness (audience), the specific or individuating qualities of the play … Find out more about Richard R. Guzman’s work at his website. 32-50 By Richard R. Guzman …
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Aerial Bombardment
… it, offers a momentary refuge. Still, this training must commence, and Stein is beginning to emit the barely audible … waits. He can hear the pages of the textbook so recently studied being flipped through in Averill’s mind; Averill, not a … Getting a cheap little thrill and clothing it in the false honor of war puffed with self-righteousness. So fuck …
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Dreams of Poetry
… Dreams of Poetry Istockphoto.com/Skrohn27   My initiation into contemporary poetry began … to transport us to worlds we never knew existed while also forcing us to look at our familiar surroundings anew, … scruffy underdog—the poem that, for all its accomplishment, points toward still bigger things. Considering all this …
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