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Little Monkey Eyes
… polite little titters, that Gilbert couldn’t tell were false. After dinner Cookie left them at the table and went to … was that he never flushed the toilet. “It’s not right,” she complained to her mother, her voice shaking. “You know it’s … addressing only her mother. “Everybody suffers. Everybody dies. Very sad. Very tragic. A tragedy.” “I bet you read …
Secrets
… lover, I said. My mother wrote to say she had big welcome home plans, had arranged for another doctor to be on … gardening gloves, and together we ripped out the dying annuals. She had the hands of an Irish potato farmer, and for a … I was to get a summer job to help pay. I’d value my studies more that way. She hung her beeper in a plastic bag …
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Confessions of a Darwinist
… the fishing boats. By summer’s end I was determined to become a paleontologist. Little did I know that … But, of course, there are those sticking points: Darwin (or so the cartoon version of him goes) … so today. But I am no historian—rather just a simple soldier on the fields of evolution. Lots of my friends have …
Diagnosing Uncle Sam
… Power.” New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons. $4.00. America Comes of Age. By Andre Siegfried. New York: Harcourt, Brace … and with constant comparisons between their respective viewpoints. Here, however, we must be satisfied with a brief … main trouble with the book, however, is that its author deals too much with superficial appearances, and too little …
Keep America Out of War
… have felt more secure on the assumption that we were neutrals because it declares that we are. But a French … involvement is slight, and classes this country as a non-combatant belligerent. While one may disagree with the … as saying that modern war embraces “everyone from the soldier in the most forward lines to the humblest citizen in …
Social Planning for England
… of National Planning, By E. A. Gutkind. Volume II, Case Studies in National Planning, Edited by E. A. Gutkind. Oxford … programs in the countries involved. But one becomes suspicious toward the end of the book of the faith and … full employment as the basis of peace and prosperity. At points his optimism carries him beyond realism, but without …
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