Yesterday the Electoral Commission decided not to go behind the papers filed with the Vice-President in the case of Florida.... I ...read the arguments in the Congressional Record and can't see how lawyers can differ on the question. But the decision is by a strictly party vote--eight Republicans against seven Democrats! It shows the strength of party ties.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The steel decks rock with the lightning shock, and shake with the great recoil,... And the sea grows red with the blood of the dead and reaches for his spoil-- But not till the foe has gone below or turns his prow and runs, Shall the voice of peace bring sweet release to the men behind the guns!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But off with your hat and three times three for Columbia's true-blue sons,... The men below who batter the foe--the men behind the guns!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Then down, deep down, in the mighty ship, unseen by the midday suns,... You'll find the chaps who are giving the raps--the men behind the guns!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I used to join the murmurings about "Where are the qualified women?" As we murmured, we would all gaze about the room, up toward t...he chandelier, into the corner behind the potted palm, under the napkin, hoping perhaps that qualified women would pop out like leprechauns.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Behind the steering wheel The boy took out his own forehead.... His girlfriend's head was a green bag Of narcissus stems. "OK you win But meet me anyway at Cohen's Drug Store In 22 minutes."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Another day. Deliberations are recessed In an iron-blue chamber of that afternoon... On which we wore things and looked well at A slab of business rising behind the stars.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
the moderate Aristotelian city Of darning and the Eight-Fifteen, where Euclid's geometry... And Newton's mechanics would account for our experience, And the kitchen table exists because I scrub it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
These women behind the store windows? Dreams, sir, dreams at bargain prices, a trip to the Indies! These people perfume themselves... with spices. You enter, they close the curtains, and the trip begins. The gods descend on the nude bodies and the islands drift, demented, with the tousled hair of palm trees in the breeze.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When Walser first put on his make-up, he looked in the mirror and did not recognise himself ... he experienced the freedom that li...es behind the mask, within dissimulation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »