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THE SCHOLAR AT 75: An Educated Guess
… conflagration that was actually about to happen.
The Scholar was also obtuse about the wider culture it sprang from. It was nowhere near as interested in bottom feeding as, say, H. L. Mencken’s American Mercury. When one ponders the hurricane force of American culture 70 years ago, one thinks instantly of Louis Armstrong, Duke …
Peaceable Kingdom
… swim desperately to find ice floes melted by global warming, tigers fall to poachers armed with guns, shoals of fish are scooped up in trawlers’ nets to feed the increased number of human mouths. For most of human history, nature has in fact returned our affections physically, in food, shelter, and, not least, the perception …
Read MoreTomorrow Is Another Day
… of Ethiopia’s 30 million people had running water or electricity, and 90 percent of the population lived on tiny farms that barely grew enough food to feed them.
By the time Nebiy was in high school, he had started writing political poems and essays and laughing at his mother’s salutes to the emperor …
Summer
… must not be expected by folks that go a-pleasuring.
—George Lord Byron, Letter to Mr. Hodgson, July 16, 1809
In summer the chores were grinding scythes, feeding the animals, chopping stove-wood, and carrying water up the hill from the spring on the edge of the meadow, etc. Then breakfast, and to the harvest …
Read MoreMiles from Nowhere
… in winter unless they feel the snow belly-deep. He says that he goes on snowshoes or on skis sleeved with skins for climbing, not with a sled, because the dogs (like wolves) need a more open, windswept type of country, and anyway the service frowns on feeding your dogs Jasper Park moose meat …
Read MoreWhat Jesus Did
… to follow some higher weather chart of their own. The Peter whom popular Church teaching presents is very rightly the Peter to whom Christ said in forgiveness, “Feed my lambs.” He is not the Peter upon whom Christ turned as if he were the devil, crying in that obscure wrath, “Get thee behind me, Satan …
Read MoreMy Holocaust Problem
… and harsh battle to stay alive in the ghetto, a struggle to preserve their humanity.” She thought we were already overlooking those who foraged for food to feed the children, who set up makeshift hospitals and schools, who actually managed to put on plays and concerts— until the first Aktions and deportations began.
There is …
Read MoreFadeaway Jumper
… high enough and explode with martial-arts flair. (Despite what the commentators say, tae kwan do and karate—film style, Jet Lee and Sonny Chiba style—probably feed basketball moves more than ballet and even popular dance.) The game now is rougher—and we are; the game is more high-flying and slick—we’re …
Read MoreThe One Who Went Before
… has fallen through the window and broken into thirty pieces of silver.” Spoken language is rich and nuanced and oratorical in the traditions of black talk Wilson feeds on, and thus is his prose poetic.
One aspect of African-American history is a melancholia that comes from the interruption—the violent fissure of the Middle …
Teaching the N-Word
… the boys for an hour, even though she lives only blocks away from me. When I get there, the boys are ready for their baths, one more feeding, and then bed. Finally, they are down, and we settle into grown-up conversation. I tell her about my class, our discussions about “nigger,” and my worries …
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