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John Keats, Surgeon Is not the level shine of steel Honed to the littleness of hair Sufficient implement to deal A stroke to lay the spirit bear? The hurt lies not so recondite As point may drive, or probe explore, Yet, though the blade drink long or …
… A Trilogy Complete, A Past Recaptured Entered from the Sun . By George … is a murder mystery, and exploits all the legitimate appeals of that genre (which includes, of course, Oedipus the … and bookselling). William Barfoot, a tough old soldier, monstrously ugly but a man of conviction (a Catholic) …
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… more precisely a birth, not a rebirth.” Certainly nothing comparable had happened before in the South that could … are the instruments of the historian. Typically history deals with groups rather than individuals—with nations, … begun to crush feudal England. The Histories and Tragedies of Shakespeare record the death of the old régime, and …
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… Dusk and Is Gone A few times in a life—any life— a moment comes, a decision comes, and then the essential thing … caught between soup bowl and mouth, and then the hand steadies. The soup does not know the decision. It cools. The … his sons. Where then is such a moment registered in the annals? Not in the dispassionate stars. Not in the house cat …
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… Community and World Order As World War II drew to a close, … by statesmen who thought it impolitic openly to reject ideals that seemed to command the passion ate allegiance of … the Greek polis was a community, and Rousseau’s Geneva. A medieval manor, a Jewish ghetto, the miners in a Welsh pit, an …
… from Atlanta in the late 1960’s, and there discovered the comparative political impotence of its businessmen, except … the 1990’s. I lived and worked with problems Bayor has studied, and I do believe that his treatment is throughout … to 48,963 in 1961, the first year of desegregation, to 55,265 in the 1964—65 school year; in the meantime, only 1,140 …