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Tangled Bureaucracies
… up vast instruments of power, which in other hands might become shackles of the American people.” And last spring … The present Office of Price Administration, bears also the distinction of incorporation in Delaware. Even the … would bring such a fruition as we observe. When agencies die naturally or are killed, new ones proliferate. The …
Literary Internationalism
… no English Academy, no literature firmly but pleasantly encompassed by traditional lines beyond which a nineteenth … spread and decentralization of English were hastened and complicated by the simultaneous filling up of a whole … upon the American translation of an author whose books are also being translated in England. The anonymous critic …
Old Conflicts in the New South
… the rank and file of the people participate responsibly in community affairs, the basis of cooperation is being laid … Negro domination less than Negro disfranchisement, and points to the one-party system as inimical to political … Such a fourfold approach, based on regional studies, assures maturity and inclusiveness of program. …
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Just Joking
… up to a whole worth reading, much less rereading. And now comes Andrew Hudgins’s The Joker, part memoir, part joke … where he attended high school and college, and later he studied writing at Iowa and Stanford. Now a professor at The … tradition, are infused with history and religion. They are also often darkly funny. (“Praying Drunk” begins “Our Father …
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Alice Munro’s Too Much Happiness
… of psychological fiction, Munro champions the value and complexity of the lives of outwardly ordinary people. She … in the desert,” and steals a kiss. When Doree’s mother dies suddenly, she chooses to move in with Lloyd, rather … or all of these at once, depending on the shifting points-of-view of the observers. Munro uses Gothic imagery …
Injuns
… school with my toes turned in, “Indian fashion.” It was uncomfortable, and anybody who watched probably thought I had … however, already by 1671 20,000 Indians faced 40,000 colonials in southern New England. Against 150,000 settlers in the … Indians faced. Spanish colonists, familiar with the die-off of native peoples in the Caribbean and Latin …
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