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"London" Europeans, Farrar (1988)"The Ranks and Rungs of Mrs. Jacobs' Ladder" Off Washington Square (1963)

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Prophecy today is hardly the romantic business that it used to be. The old tools of the trade, like the sword, the hair shirt, and the long fast in the wilderness, have given way to more contemporary, mundane instruments of doom—the book, the picket and the petition, the sit-in ... at City Hall.

Jane Kramer

Jane Kramer (b. 1938), U.S. author. "The Ranks and Rungs of Mrs. Jacobs' Ladder," Off Washington Square (1963).

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