Word: graveses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Charles Ruas speaks in his introduction of personae, archetypes, universal dialogues and seminal experiences. The idea of the Great American Novel hovers feebly over the graves of Faulkner, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. Majestic imaginations recede, literary vision narrows, culture breaks into fragments, and the public slinks off to attend the marriage...
Muslims were also buried in groups. Rescue workers dug graves six feet long and 15 feet wide, each holding eleven bodies. When there was no burial ground left, old tombs were opened and 100-year-old bones were displaced to make room for the victims. Even here the packs of...
I look down at the snowy earth where my father lies. There are footprints under the maple tree that grows over his grave. People have been here, although the snow around the other graves is untrammeled. It was June when we buried him--the summer solstice. The day I return...
John Cheever died at age 70 in 1982. Near the end of her "biographical memoir" of the late writer, his daughter Susan, the author of three novels, recalls a visit to her father's grave in Massachusetts: "I look down at the snowy earth where my father lies. There...
President Bok's recent "Open Letter on Free Speech" deserves a reply since it has nothing to do with the question of Free speech. In fact, the only real democratic question posed here is Harvard's threat to students' legitimate exercise of their rights to protest. Bok's letter is...