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The Ghost

What makes permeable the ghost? Madam, you haunt me but a young month old And already I see the grey clock through your breasts And, when I hold you, air Is in my fingers or......

Just Great

The College Novel in America. By John 0. Lyons. The Grotesque, an American Genre. And other essays. By William Van O'Con- nor. New American Gothic. By Irving Malin. With......

Poison Laurel

As Professor Finer tells us in this comprehensive and stimulating survey, and as events in Togo are the latest reminder, military intervention in civil government has been......

Quakers & Peace

Quakers may be better known for their stand against war than for any other of their 'testimonies'. Certainly, violence has no place in their interpretation of Christian......