Word: plaines
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Curious Booty. Two miles north of Port Taufiq, we crossed the canal on a barge to join the Third Army on the east bank. On a broad sandy plain, a curious collection had been assembled. To the rear, in a 100-yard semicircle, were arranged captured Israeli tanks, guns, missiles, shells and even the wreckage of a Phantom jet. In the center of the semicircle a white monument had been erected honoring the men who died during the Israeli siege of the army. In between booty and monument, officers and men representing all units of the Third Army were drawn...
Poems about the writing of poems can be pretty unbearably self-indulgent or just plain dull. Strand makes you forget that, while Orr barely escapes the problem...
From the Congo to Connemara, the lesson to Casement was writ plain. He had been raised a Protestant in Ulster, and his next cause, after retirement from the foreign service, was to be his native Ireland, the very exemplar of colonial misrule. In 1913 war clouds were lowering and, as Sinn Fein Guru Tom Clarke prophesied, "England's difficulty is Ireland's opportunity." For years, while a servant of the crown, Casement had nourished a hatred of the English that was to become, in Inglis' word, a "monomania." Now he proclaimed on the eve of World...
...variations. Los Angeles recently had a rash of "smell" testimony after one police officer successfully justified a search by saying that he had smelled marijuana on the defendant. In New York, judging by some recent testimony, ghetto residents often leave their apartment doors open with bags of heroin "in plain view." This allows policemen who just happen by to make arrests...
Perhaps by pursuing some of the ramifications of simple social facts like this Stott might have provided a more serious understanding of the social context of documentary expression. If one sets out to chronicle and make plain the subtle interplay between a culture and a society, one takes on the additional burden of developing a theoretical framework, a structure of ideas and insights, that is adequate...