![]() He went pro in 1915 and became heavyweight champion by defeating Jack Dempsey in Philadelphia in 1926. He boxed a bit as a boy and more seriously while serving with the Marine Corps during World War I. His father was a stevedore given to violent outbursts, which Gene did his best to escape by reading. Tunney was one of the seven children and the eldest son of Irish immigrants, raised in a shabby section of Greenwich Village in New York City. ![]() Shaw was shocked to see his hero knocked silly by Gene Tunney who, Shaw would quickly discover, bore a striking resemblance to his fictional creation Cashel Byron. ![]() ![]() He was captivated by the handsome French fighter and though the fight lasted only 74 seconds, he raved that “geniuses like Carpentier too few and far between.”įast forward five years and you’d find Shaw watching newsreel footage of Carpentier’s bout at the Polo Grounds in Manhattan. Shaw had boxed in his youth and in 1919 covered for The Nation magazine the heavyweight title bout between France’s Georges Carpentier and Britain’s Joe Beckett in London. ![]()
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Order may come in multiple shipments, however you will only be charged a flat fee.Ģ-10 days after all items have arrived in the warehouse Items in order will be sent as soon as they arrive in the warehouse. ![]() ![]() ![]() It is 1949 in West Texas, and the Western dream is dying, not only because of all the oilmen buying up the land: Cole’s ranch, which has been in the family since the 1870s, is about to be sold due to the death of his maternal grandfather, the dissolution of his parents’ marriage, the mortal illness of his veteran father, and his urbane actress mother’s dissatisfaction with country living.Ī preternaturally gifted horseman, Cole faces the prospect of a world that has no use for the only man he knows how to become. McCarthy’s bestselling 1992 novel is a romantic latter-day Western about a 16-year-old boy named John Grady Cole. ![]() ![]() All the Pretty Horses is apparently to Cormac McCarthy’s corpus what The Crying of Lot 49 is to Thomas Pynchon’s or The Ghost Writer to Philip Roth’s: it is the appealing vestibule to an oeuvre of appalling heights and depths, a prolegomenon to any future metaphysics. ![]() ![]() ![]() Some will first make a stop at the notorious detention camp in Argeles-sur-Mer, in the French Pyrenees. Make that mostly Chile, the 'long petal of the sea,” according to Pablo Neruda, or that 'long worm at the far south of the map” in the mind of a character Allende sends there in the aftermath of the war. With this scene, master storyteller Isabel Allende opens the curtain on a story of war, love and displaced persons, 1938 to 1994, moving from Spain to France, Chile and Venezuela. Here, med student Victor Dalmau is about to raise one of them from the dead. To fight the hopeless battles immediately preceding the victory of General Francisco Franco, the boy soldiers of what was called 'the baby bottle conscription” were called in. The bloody Spanish Civil War is almost over, as there are 'no more men, old or young, to fight the war” on the side of the Republicans. Victor was never able to explain to himself why he inserted three fingers of his right hand into the gaping wound, gently grasped the organ, and squeezed it rhythmically several times.” ![]() 'This was to be his most stubborn, persistent memory of the war: that 15- or 16-year-old boy, still smooth-cheeked, filthy with the dirt of battle and dried blood, laid out on a stretcher with his heart exposed to the air. ![]() ![]() The breed's name "Shih Tzu" means "lion dog" in Chinese, and they were traditionally kept as lapdogs for Chinese royalty. They are known for their long, silky coat that requires regular grooming to maintain its beauty. 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He founded a weekly newspaper, The Long-Islander, and later edited a number of Brooklyn and New York papers, including the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. ![]() He continued to teach until 1841, when he turned to journalism as a full-time career. In 1836, at the age of seventeen, he began his career as teacher in the one-room schoolhouses of Long Island. Whitman worked as a printer in New York City until a devastating fire in the printing district demolished the industry. Largely self-taught, he read voraciously, becoming acquainted with the works of Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, and the Bible. ![]() ![]() In the 1820s and 1830s, the family, which consisted of nine children, lived in Long Island and Brooklyn, where Whitman attended the Brooklyn public schools.Īt the age of twelve, Whitman began to learn the printer’s trade and fell in love with the written word. He was the second son of Walter Whitman, a house-builder, and Louisa Van Velsor. ![]() Walt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, in West Hills, on Long Island, New York. ![]() ![]() ![]() Auden, and Walter Benjamin, background and contextual material, and a new Introduction from Corngold himself. This Modern Library edition collects Stanley Corngold’s acclaimed English translation-long hailed as the gold standard by scholars and general readers alike-along with seven critical essays by writers including Philip Roth, W. A harrowing-though absurdly comic-meditation on human feelings of inadequacy, guilt, and isolation, The Metamorphosis has taken its place as one of the most widely read and influential works of twentieth-century fiction. It is the story of a young man who, transformed overnight into a giant beetle-like insect, becomes an object of disgrace to his family, an outsider in his own home, a quintessentially alienated man. With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Franz Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis. “When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.” ![]() ![]() ![]() But who was Beatien Yazz? Did his “great promise” come to pass? Given locally the Denver Art Museum’s considerable Native Arts Department holds several of his works and nationally the National Museum of the American Indian also has many paintings, textile samples, and pottery created by Yazz, the answer is probably yes. ![]() This correspondence was forwarded to the Southwest Area Office of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board and today can be found in Record Group 435 – Records of the Indian Arts and Crafts Board at the National Archives at Denver. Ansel Adams to Willard Beatty,, Correspondence and Presentation Albums, 1935-1969 (NAID 1497229) Adams was so impressed by the young Yazz’s work when he passed through the Navajo Nation in 1944 that three years later he felt compelled to write the Bureau of Indian Affair’s head of education a series of letters stating as much. ![]() He is a young Navajo of considerable talent and great promise.” A heady compliment in itself but even more so that it was delivered by a titan of the photography world, Ansel Adams. “…I had the pleasure of seeing some of the paintings of Beatin Yazz. Today’s post is written by Cody White, National Archives at Denver, with special thanks to Gwen Granados National Archives at Riverside, John Seamans National Archives at San Francisco, and Theresa Fitzgerald National Archives at St. ![]() ![]() Read Kevin Wetmore’s ‘Halloween Returns’ Contest Winning Story “Ben Tramer’s Not Going to Homecoming!”ĭownload the ‘Halloween Returns: A Fan Fiction Anthology’ Now for Free!įive Reasons Drunks Will Always Survive Horror Storiesīloody Good Writing Volume 2: Does Sex Sell? Slenderman Video: Author Lee McGeorge Explores the Home of Slenderman!įear the Future: 10 Great Post-Apocalyptic Horror Novels Ranking Every Stephen King Novel, From Worst to First! Here are 10 Classic Scary Stories to Read for Free!ĥ Horror Authors You Have to Read and Follow in 2016! Is Stephen King Really the Greatest Horror Contributor of All Time? Jonathan Maberry, Ramsey Campbell and 16 Other Amazing Horror Authors Tell Us What Books Terrify Them! 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ORIGINALLY PART OF PIO PICO'S Rancho Santa Margarita land grant, with the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, this land was transferred to the United States government. ![]() All photos courtesy Fallbrook Historical Society ![]() |