HEAVILY HYPENATED SYNTAX Mansfield is no stranger to ellipsis dots and em-dashes. Here she puts the good old em-dash to good effect: “I called and called to you—and you wouldn’t come—so I had to lie there for ever” “Six Years After” Who is the ‘I’ in that sentence? Well...
Heading down the path to war, the nation erupted in jingoism. For decades, German-Americans had been perhaps the strongest political force blocking immigration restrictions. More than any other hyphenated group, they tended to remember their immigrant heritage and resist the “close-the-door-behind...