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… Best 200 Words I Read All Week. From fact to fiction, from comedic to tragic, we hope you find as much to admire in … these selections as we do.    Click  here for access to the complete project archive    1.  In the dark, they climbed … they don’t mean that it’s disappeared completely; individuals of a functionally extinct species may still exist, but …

… of French History , by Pierre Goubert. Franklin Watts $26.95 This masterful narrative of French history combines … as society’s primary spokesmen tried to exhort their audience to act, at the same time as they tried to contain the … from the bibliography. To be sure, there are a great many points of interest in the course of this long narrative, but …

… that, Congress was threatening to curtail its generous subsidies for the crop. And so cotton had seemed barely … growers haven’t abandoned cotton entirely. As Falconer points out, “The more alternative crops you can grow, … he tells me. “You can go crazy with that.”  cotton farming 26-39 By Gerard Helferich Photography by John Montfort Jones …

… of the main geographic clusters of the New York analytic community. Even in those pre-World War I days, … was attracting the interest of Greenwich Village intellectuals; Walter Lippmann, for example, brought Brill for an … salons to explain the import of these new ideas. However welcome Freud’s system might have been in America, he himself …

… a bell jar and left room for a dozen bells: I knew she had committed suicide at age 30 by sticking her head in an oven, … from another poet, Ted Hughes, and that feminist intellectuals and scholars often took up Plath and her work as a … of Plath’s. Many of those poets, Alvarez argues, also died young and dramatically, but few incorporated death of …