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… Theodore Roosevelt spoke a patent truth: “Presidents may come,” he said, “and Presidents may go, but Uncle Remus … herself to identify her man, as it were, by. testimonials from people less important than the man himself. In … Alas, for that generation. It was in 1908 that Harris died. Only six years ahead lay the Great Confusion. But not …
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… Introspectivist agenda for an intimate, experiential, embodied poetry, which rejected symbolic formalisms, but they … lover and a caring mother, and the roles don’t always sit comfortably together. How ruefully she acknowledges the … wheel, and I don’t regret it. Does it matter what a flower dies of— autumn, a storm wind. And you, my storm wind, are …
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… boy can muster, I saw those English teachers as criminals who had stolen books I would have enjoyed beside a … and generally making everyone else’s experience a drag. I complained loudly that Homer was wasting valuable time by … The Lifetime Reading Plan (1999 edition, the year he died) and Harold Bloom’s How to Read and Why (2002). ——— …
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… through “ceaseless negotiation.” By the time Richelieu died, in 1642, France had fostered a new class of … and weeping for the passing of his guardian, Louis commenced his 63 years of personal rule—the longest in … was an expensive exercise in Bourbon propaganda. Versailles also served to keep some 2000 troublesome nobles—the bane of …
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… as if the possibility of going to war was nothing compared to the certainty of calling this place home. They … of hair and the delicacy of wrists, these become melodies missing all their notes. When he read her letters, they … hours maneuvering around merchantmen, fishing boats, and points of land, who had often late at night calculated …
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… enormous yellow eyes, bleeding red into a Lima gutter. He died, whimpering, but not without a struggle. It was foggy, … There were ten of us, maybe eleven. Names? We shared one: compañero. All of us, except me, whom they sometimes called … street lamps, covered them with terse and angry slogans, Die Capitalist Dogs and such; leaving the beasts there for …