Poetry
… city our conference went on in the green din of post-Soviet comfort where every third channel was porn and the arguments … about ethnic cleansing were spliced by the disco-falsetto of the Bee Gees and through the giant windows we … by the green shade, and even though Euclid said any two points can be joined by a straight line, what does that make …
… bulged with their winter clothes. “She must think we’ve come for weeks.” Tom shook his head. “She knows how long … reading Anthony Sampson’s Anatomy of Britain . At meals he would give little summaries of what he had read. But … in all these months in London, not even when Kennedy died. She felt vaguely ashamed and vowed to talk to Phil …
… not one of concern to Czechs and Slovaks alone. It has become a symbol of the low moral standards of contemporary … constitution was formulated in Washington. Many points of this program were not embodied in the Constitution, and Mr. Masaryk made no attempt to …
… other’s nerves, old women developed strange habits, men committed suicide when they lost their money or their minds, … in the early twenties when, as soon as their parents died, the then-young reacted to the dark damask walls of the … because they were at the end of their rope. The admiral died eight years ago. Mrs. Webster thought she ought to go …
… My nineteenth trip to France, and the reasons for coming here are the same as they were on the first trip, in … enunciating his course in the Amphitheatre Richelieu. And also, when I try to teach the theories of André Breton and … and of literature. A few of the literary figures I studied then had some connection or other with Maritain and the …
Essays
… not to leave for another ten minutes, but the air in the compartment was already so thick with cigarette smoke that I … than the mere debris of economic collapse. Several locals later told me that fruit and vegetable crops had started … side in Bosnia. His son was killed in the war, his wife died, his son-in-law died, and his daughter died. He himself …