Adriana J. BergeroTodd S. GarthA Companion to Latin American Literature & Culture
By then we were forced to go back down to the beach because the ridge had become impossible. Above us, the yawning crater looked like the wide mouth of a well. From where we stood, the sky was pretty easy to see, and I watched clouds race by, disheveled by the west wind, letting...
Being the third son of the family and not bred to any trade, my head began to be filled very early with rambling thoughts. My father, who was very ancient, had given me a competent share of learning, as far as house-education and a country free school generally go, and designed me f...
To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society' s ills on the West—know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that ...
A kiln was a sort of oven which could be tightly closed on all sides, while the contents were exposed to the even temperature of a wood fire;and by way of Babylonia(which forty centuries ago acted as the intermediary between Asia and Europe)the new method soon spread throughout the West...
have forced the people to return to the mode of living that was originally practiced by the cave-dwellers but was given up by them as unworthy of decent human beings. As a result, the big cities of the West have become gigantic accumulations of artificial skins, piled one on top of anot...
One day before Christmas in this year, 1798, Sylvia was called into the shop by Coulson, who, with his assistant, was busy undoing the bales of winter goods supplied to them from the West Riding, and other places. He was looking at a fine Irish poplin dress-piece when Sylvia answered ...
Results of the previous “three major transformations” of socialism fueled Mao Zedong’s ambitions to further intensify socialist reconstruction in China, hoping to overtake the UK and catch up with the United States by realizing communism as quickly...
CHAPTER THIRTEEN“The Coordinator of Rapid Rupture”Now I could see at firsthand the tremendous intellectual power of Oppenheimer who was the unquestionedleader of our group. . . . The intellectual experience wasunforgettable.HANS BETHEOPPENHEIMER’S STEADY AND OFTEN BRILLIANT contributions at the “...
IT RAINED FOR four years, eleven months, and two days. There were periods of drizzle during which everyone put on his full dress a convalescent look to celebrate the clearing, but the people soon grew accustomed to interpret the pauses as a sign of