The year which preceded my father"s death made great change in my life. I had been living in New Jersey, working in defense plants, working and living among southerners, white and black. I knew about the south, of course, and about how southerners treated Negroes and how they expected ...
“He was a great manager,”the boy said.“My father thinks he was the greatest.” “Because he came here the most times,”the old man said.“If Durocher had continued to come here each year your father would think him the great manager.” “Who is the great manager, really, Luque ...
It turned out that he and my father had been schoolmates in boyhood, Yale students together later, and always warm friends up to my father's death. So then he required me to put in at his house all the odd time I might have to spare, and I was very willing, of course. In ...
MatthewandLukeare thought to further develop Mark’s narrative.The Gospel According to Matthewemphatically identifies John as a new or returningElijah, herald of the kingdom of God (Matthew 3). For Matthew, John’s death, like that of Jesus, illustrates the oldIsrael’shostility to God’s of...
It consists of a number of absurd little figures dancing across the paper upon which they are drawn. Why should you attribute any importance to so grotesque an object?" "I never should, Mr. Holmes. But my wife does. It is frightening her to death. She says nothing, but I ...
“He was a great manager,”the boy said.“My father thinks he was the greatest.” “Because he came here the most times,”the old man said.“If Durocher had continued to come here each year your father would think him the great manager.” “Who is the great manager, really, Luque...
"My father thinks he was the greatest." "Because he came here the most times, "the old man said."If Durocher had continued to come here each year your father would think him the greatest manager." "Who is the greatest manager, really, Luque or Mike Gonzalez? " "I think they are ...
Looking back at the 21-year-old that I was at graduation, is a slightly uncomfortable experience for the 42-year-old that she has become. Half my lifetime ago, I was striking an uneasy balance between the ambition I had for myself, and what those closest to me expected of me. ...
19 One pillar dated their arrival to the “Cang kong” year and the other to the “Keng lung” year. “[T]he name and element of the years when the earlier and later Kongjo came to Tibet are very important to us,” and so could Gombojab read the appropriate Chinese histories and ...
a 14-year-old Chicago boy killed in Mississippi in 1955, and Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old Cleveland boy shot to death by police in 2014 in the city where his ancestors had fled. Their fates are a reminder that the perils the people sought to escape were not confined to the South, nor...