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Hurrah, Boys! Meanwhile, Custer had sighted the eastern edge of the Indian camp and decided to attack. Thinking the warriors were asleep in their tepees, Custer shouted: "Hurrah, boys, we've got them! We'll finish them up and then go home." With 205 men and a newspaper...
CANADIAN histories dutifully record the glum surmise of the 16th century explorer Jacques Cartier, who sighted Labrador and declared: "This must be the land that God gave Cain." Voltaire dismissed Canada as "a few acres of snow." Canada's massive, historical inferiority complex is without question the biggest in...
The CP letter is a program which would weaken the anti-war movement. Aside from this, the letter's approach to people is plain rotten. Students won't like you if you argue against their (illusion of) security. Students are "spoon fed with the delusions and placebos of this system...
The Left has a problem, Lipset continues, because they can't have it both ways. They complain first that they don't have any courses which are applicable today-- "We (the Left) are locked up in an Ivory Tower which has no contact with the events of today." But when...
This fifth novel of Bourjaily's says more than that. It is an evocation of the memories of a whole generation, from the 100 Wings cigarettes of the Depression to the melodies of forgotten songs and long-silenced dance bands. The author's dialogue rings as accurately as...