… to heat daze. Then, abruptly, I was there. A young boy was coming toward me from what wasn’t a barracks but a house … fringes, almost slovenly, but inexplicably grand; and also, like my grandfather, the Sheikh had dropped everything … and in the Sinai of the Attawnehs, dead boots and bodies lay strewn from Suez to Eilat. Even Sheikh Mousa …
Fiction
… she said, and he nodded as if the situation was incomprehensible. But she was confused about the basic facts: … under the couch, and when Jane tried to coax her out, Sudie lay on her paws and gazed out with worried black eyes. … It wasn’t a good idea to call her dad. After Jane’s mother died, he’d napped all day for five months, dropping all his …
Poetry
… flowers in the darkened yard— through photographs. We come to adore the children we once were. Before you died and returned as a dog, how you sought to be Saturn … ball slung again, and your impulse to follow. The canine points of stars that glow yellow of teeth of the extinct. …
… de Voltaire to his name and who, because of his protean accomplishments as a man of letters, as historian, dramatist, … yours. In fact, your Enlightenment colleagues are rarely studied these days. Just examine any college or university … being unfair? Though fairness was never one of your strong points. To what metaphysics, more specifically, do you …
… Other Fires. By Maxim Gorki. New York: D. Appleton-Century Company, $3.00. Toward the Seizure of Power. By. V. I. … of the norms of social existence they had worshipped. He deals with the abortive revolution of 1905-06, peasant … who hate all that degrades, who unquestionably know how to die for a cause, but whose idealism is rarely organized and …
… found her there and exclaimed, “Miss Coralee, honey, how come you eatin’ that dry old stuff?” And then she would … and Penny after you’re gone. Grandmother told us before she died.” “I never heard that.” “Well, she said so, Mama. You … in to eat. Most of my friends have moved away. Some have died. . . .” He listened to her with his bushy eyebrows …