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...female Passenger who came From Calais with us, spotless in array,- A white-robed Negro, like a lady gay, Yet downcast as a woman fearing blame; Meek, destitute, as seemed, of hope or aim She sate, from notice turning not away, But on all proffered intercourse did lay A weight of languid speech, or to the same No sign of answer made by word or face: Yet still her eyes retained their tropic fire, That, burning independent of the mind, Joined with the lustre of her rich attire To mock the Outcast - O ye Heavens, be kind! And feel, thou...
...night, methought about the midnight hour, A double darkness o'er me seem'd to lower; Pensive I lay, to know what God design'd, Sensations awful fill'd my boding mind! The poor unhappy slaves rose to my view, My former guilt, their wounds now bled anew; I heard their sighs, and saw their big round tears, Wept as they wept, and fear'd with all their fears; Methought I saw once more their natal shore, All stain'd with carnage, red with human gore; Shrouded in blood they now appear'd to stand, And pointed to their agonizing...
Many in the crowd shouted in anger at the referee after Wright appeared to apply a choke hold on Leighton, who lay motionless on the floor for several seconds. No penalty was called...
...term and afterward wrote in a letter to a friend (the great scholar of Jewish mysticism Gershom Scholem), "It is indeed my opinion now that evil is never 'radical,' that it is only extreme, and that it possesses neither depth nor any demonic dimension. It can overgrow and lay waste the whole world precisely because it spreads like a fungus on the surface." This was what W.H. Auden meant: "Evil is unspectacular and always human,/And shares our bed and eats at our own table." The normality of evil...
...soil, but its own military is already in the game. A senior U.S. official told TIME that Turkish officers are working closely with U.S. special forces now deployed in Kurdish-held areas of northern Iraq, and the arrangement is working for both sides. The U.S. learns the lay of the land from those familiar with it, while Turkey gets firsthand knowledge of the movements of potential Kurdish adversaries, as well as some goodwill from Washington...