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Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was
up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay
in the other half of the same bed.
“Ralph, Ralph, get awake! Come down and
help me...
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Biography EssayWilla Cather is an outstanding example of a writer whose work is deeply rooted in a sense of place and at the same time universal in its treatment of theme and character. The corner of ...
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The American author Willa Sibert Cather (1873-1947) is distinguished for her strong and sensitive evocations of prairie life in the twilight years of the midwestern frontier. Her poetic sensibility wa...
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"The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman," Willa Cather observed in her second novel, O Pioneers!, but the same theme resonates throughout all of her work. Passionately in...
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Willa Cather is a splendid example of a writer whose work is deeply rooted in a sense of place and at the same time universal in its treatment of theme and character. The corner of earth that she is ...
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"I do not take myself seriously as a poet," said Willa Cather in a 1925 interview. Having by then published many short stories and six novels (of an eventual twelve) and having won a Pulitzer Prize fo...
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The literary reputation of Willa Cather has steadily risen since her first volume of short stories appeared in 1905, but her present stature as an important American writer rests largely on her twel...
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During the 1973 Willa Cather centennial seminar in Lincoln, Nebraska, Leon Edel--the Henry James biographer who collaborated with E. K. Brown on the first important biographical study of Cather--put h...
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Homeland Security: Some say America's not fertile ground for jihadists, that all the radicals are overseas. The arrest of two Muslims near a South Carolina Naval base with pipe bombs reminds us suc...
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Rio de Janeiro/Lima (dpa) - Sandro, a tourist, was still showing
the strain hours after the earthquake in Peru which by latest counts
killed over 300 people.
...
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Rio de Janeiro/Lima (dpa) - Sandro, a tourist, was still showing
the strain hours after the earthquake in Peru, which at the latest
count had killed more than 300 people.
...
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Less than two years ago, Andy Stern led a break away from the AFL-CIO and helped form the "Change to Win Coalition."The president of the Service Employees International Union wanted to focus more o...
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You'd think it would be pretty boring for a kid to sit on a bus for six hours looking out the window.But when the bus is going through Denali National Park in Alaska, and there's a possibility of s...
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As a tech-lover, you know it's easy to pick up some expensive hobbies. Fortunately, computer gaming doesn't have to be one of them. Although the games themselves are relatively cheap, the har...
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PRETORIA, Jan 25 (Reuters) - South Africa's government said
on Friday rolling power cuts that forced shutdowns of the
country's largest mines and a market sell-off were a national
emergency, but c...
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Over the last few months we've put a lot of work into our new Web site—there's still a lot more to come.
Surf around the site, get your feet wet, and let us know what you think by commenting ...
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“This is not a building opening—it’s just a party,” said luxury-property propagandist Michael Shvo.
He was standing along a black carpet runway with black velvet ropes...
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Jihad On Our Shores
