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Facts About Food
… not add up to either defeatism or loss of health. Only two compensating factors were visible: full employment and food … scientists and medical authorities who have compromised at points where in the face of commercial advantage the … fresh vegetables, meats, and fruits to make up a proper diet. It also takes more good sense than many well-to-do …
The Man on the Bicycle Machine
… especially for a sedentary man, and almost as important as diet. But she could not really believe that exercise had to … wore both a Mason’s pin and an iron cross stuck on opposite points of his leather jacket collar, and the other had no … him slightly longer than usual to get back on a gearless 26-incher. Getting off the bike and standing alone and still …
A Critique of Experimental Poetry
… New York: Arrow Editions. $2.50. In the five essays which compose “Primitivism and Decadence,” Mr. Yvor Winters has … the fruits of a study begun in 1920 and continued at intervals to the present time. During these years his original … developed of necessity into an elucidation of their short-comings.” The poetry of Robinson Jeffers, Hart Crane, T. S. …
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My Mother’s Body
… when she was forty-three. I was thirteen. My mother was commensurate with the world, the first person to teach me I … waste? Was she still my mother by then?   On October 26, 1986, two weeks after my mother’s death, my father wrote … same faraway look of longing as my mother. After my mother died, I fought with her until one day when I realized she …
Our “Voting” Stock
… and why were certain other stocks so scornfully called “common”? The present year, it is true, is demonstrating just … democracy are numerous, but at least the cannonading has died down. These days when speaking of politics one has to … any previous time in recent history, and net earnings of $267,874,000—this report was referred to, and its adoption …
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Holding
… planets, meteors, water, dirt, cells, fish, plants, animals, men, women, babies, laughter, song, dance, fire, war, … trains, cars, telephone, television, airplane, rocket, computer, cell tower, satellite—vast wireless hum wrapped … my feet. Sometimes, instead of hands, I substitute the bodies of muscular angels: male, positioned at the four …
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