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Article: A merciless mercy. A MERCIFUL END: THE EUTHANASIA MOVEMENT IN ...
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life;  May 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...A MERCIFUL END: THE EUTHANASIA MOVEMENT IN MODERN AMERICA. By IAN DOWBIGGIN. Oxford University Press. 259 pp. $28. JUDGING FROM ITS unfortunate title, A Merciful End: The Euthanasia Movement in Modern America would appear to be just ...

Article: Excluded from the literary canon for being classified as ...
Nineteenth-Century Prose;  December 22, 1989 ;     500 words ... ... a Schoolgirl (1897) has been rescued from obscurity in a new reprinting (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989, 97 pp.), with an introduction by Beverly Lyon Clark. Clark contends that boys' books have so dominated the ...

Article: 'The Lives of Animals,' by J.M Coetzee; Princeton ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  March 31, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... tributes to make him a giant of contemporary world fiction. What accounts for Elizabeth's surfacing between the covers of a university press book? (She and her story are followed by reactions from four prominent academic intellectuals: Harvard literature professor ...

Article: `The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945,' by David ...
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  June 9, 1999 ;     700+ words ...One month after Adolf Hitler invaded Poland in 1939, Winston Churchill assessed the possible role of the Soviet Union in the world crisis. Russia, Churchill declared, ``is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest Events were

Article: Zunshine, Lisa. 2008. Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make ...
College Literature;  June 22, 2009 ;     700+ words ...Lisa Zunshine's Strange Concepts and the Stories They Make Possible is a new entry in the field of cognitive poetics, a field that draws on theories from cognitive psychology to assess how literature affects readers. Her book is divided into three sections, each considering in detail a specific

Article: North, Michael. 1999. Reading 1922: A Return to the Scene of the ...
College Literature;  March 22, 2001 ;     700+ words ...Reading 1922 should solidify Michael North's reputation as one of today's most learned, engaging, and insightful students of modernism. The author of studies of Yeats and Pound as well as the groundbreaking work The Dialect of Modernism (1994), North turns his attention here to a crucial year in

Article: Hutson, Lorna. 2007. The invention of suspicion: law and mimesis ...
College Literature;  January 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ...We usually speak of casting suspicion or having it raised, but in these times when terrorism and counter-terrorism can be hard to distinguish, we have had to relearn what it means to invent suspicion. That there is a long history of individuals and governments inventing such a thing--of generating