At the Edge of a Woodby Sara de Vos (an imaginary painting by a real artist), knowing full well that it is probably going to be used as a forgery. The original is stolen and replaced with the copy. Decades pass. The art forger is now a respected curator and art historian...
Since the Revolution days, when Virginia was the nurse of statesmen, the few thinkers of America born south of Mason and Dixon's line—outnumbered by those belonging to the single State of Massachusetts—have commonly migrated to New York or Boston in search of a university training. In the ...
Jane came to the prose poem late and took little time to master it, as the below prose poem and commentary suggest. I could let it rip now and use all of the those hyperbolic words (“brilliant,”“insightful,”“glorious, “groundbreaking,” and so on—all those words that I hope peo...
that would draw attention away from contention between the two parts of the country. Part of that amnesia is the creation of new memories once order is restored – mythological memories that attend to the ideology of the power structure (7). Secondly, the cowboy furthered the beginnings of i...
Draw: "Give motion to by the act of pulling" — fromdrauen, alternate spelling of Old Englishdragan"to drag, to draw, protract". “Drawing is like making an expressive gesture with the advantage of permanence”. — Henri Matisse Print: “A mark made by impression upon a surface" — pas...
American radical lobby in London to establish and exploit this connection. Conscious manipulators of opinion like Arthur Lee not only appealed directly to the old Whiggism of Revolution days, but unashamedly glorified the oligarchical era of Walpole and the Pelhams, picturing George II, for ...
Men had to overcome that, and women bargained hard. (Why not? It was a source of power over men at a time when it seemed men had all the power.) The result was usually marriage; the man got sex and the woman financial security–that was the deal. The sexual revolution of the 1960...
I felt like it was one of those things that you discover in a foreign culture that makes you want to write your senator about and see if you can start some sort of revolution back state-side. But the more I thought about it the more it occurred to me that it’s a rather peculiar ...
Anyone who looks closely at black racial thinking and behavior cannot but conclude that 50 years after the legislated revolution of the civil rights movement, blacks are as far as ever from adopting the race-blindness that whites assume all Americans must achieve for multi-racialism to work. Tha...
There is uncertainty about the origin of the term “to lynch,” but Prof. Murphey suspects that it comes from a certain Col. Charles Lynch of Bedford County, Virginia, who administered local justice during the American Revolution. There were many British loyalists in the area who stole horses...