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Graviora
Read more: GravioraThomas Nast’s 1876 anti-Catholic cartoon from “Harper’s Weekly.” Based on North America’s global grimace, the pedophilia-tormented Roman Catholic Church is in shambles. The pope is alleged to put somnolence before vigilance; laissez faire ahead of prudence; moral laxity before rigor. North American Catholics cry shame. Others demand the pope resign.…
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Her tuffet
Read more: Her tuffetOne tough Muffet. Just before my 12th birthday I decided my second grade teacher was a witch. Every few days over breakfast I’d tell my parents I didn’t feel well, hoping to stay home. But Mrs. Jackson cast a spell. My throat refused to irritate itself and the mercury thermometer…
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‘You lie!’
Read more: ‘You lie!’Mathew Brady, 1863. Hyperbole is as old as Washington. So are polemics and rhetoric. Style, introduced more recently, hitched self-respect to sensibility, the alternative to which was a return to grunting. Welcome to it. Grunt made its swan-dive breakthrough during the recent State of the Union message, when an angry…
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Son of gas
Read more: Son of gasThe tunnel-fearer grieved his dead mother. My early Rome years contained a caravan of eccentrics; people whose affectations straddled superstition and folly. When introduced into a more rational universe, that of working America, recalling their oddness made people uneasy — about me. I seemed not only foreign but alien. So…
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Piling on
Read more: Piling on30 pages on sleep… No way, Marcel. Agood friend just had his new book savaged by a major newspaper. The reviewer wrote crankily and rudely, in keeping with cranky and rude times. If leaving no stone unturned is child’s play, going for the jugular is positively cool. Even the American…
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See all about it!
Read more: See all about it!Back pains and arthritis… The core’s ulcers, its back pains and arthritis, its coughs and hiccups, magma unhinged: The all of it inevitably leaves aboveground residents slack-jawed. They ponder their broken constructs at once terrified and rapt. Worry varies based on the status of the wrecked above: rugged Japan matters…
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