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Emergency Haying
… Emergency Haying Coming home with the last load I ride standing on the tongue … from twisted shoulders, making two cords that suspend me on points of pain in the rising monoxide, recall that greater … herded to the gaunt fields of torture. Hands too bloodied cannot bear even the touch of air, the touch of love. I …
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Dark Noise
… are dream’s jazz. You’ve never heard this stuff?  Well, also popular last week we had an older groom  the night … after all day at the pool,  her tenderness in restive competition with a husband  who has slept beside a wife for … can call it that, leaves very little secret. A rhythm  steadier, smoother, humbler than waves: inhalations  the size of …
Careers at Crossroads
… Man. By John Dos Passos. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company. $2.50. The Grapes of Wrath. By John Steinbeck. New … of the Atlantic, not only because they were good books, but also because they were signposts in the development of … of the greatest novelists of all time. Therefore, when he died last summer at the age of thirty-seven, the first …
Militarism Marches On
… a Profession. By Alfred Vagts. New York: W. W. Norton and Company. $4.75. The most stimulating hypothesis in Dr. … aristocrats tend to become officers and your successful soldiers seep into the aristocracy, that with the passage of … it seeks not merely control of the army and navy but also an identification with the fighting services and with …
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An Interview with Francine Prose
… And wanting to find out how a more-or-less moral person becomes that kind of person. She was normal? Yes, she was a … week. It’s a long story—my mother’s best friend—my mother died in 2005—her best friend is the CEO of Marc Jacobs, the … wasn’t as if he was hiding—but he said there were certain points where he had to be that person to write what he had …
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The Poetry of Abraham Lincoln
… Thomas Lincoln’s grave until last year, after my father died. He is buried in the east where I’m from, and I guess I … obsession of mine after that visit. The president-elect had come there the last time on Jan.31, 1861. He was off to … and proud about what he had written. Honest Abe was also being honest—the work is very stylized and …
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