... Wait for Me (1941) Konstantin Simonov Konstantin Simonov (1915–79), like Vasilii Grossman, was a war correspondent. He was also a poet, novelist, and playwright. His poem ‘‘Zhdi menia’’ (Wait for Me) was written in 1941 and was part of a larger collection he wrote for his wife while he...

... CHAPTER 6 TELEVISION WHILE YOU WAIT Waiting casts one’s life into a little dungeon of time. —William James As the emergence of corporate entities like the cnn Airport Network and the Commuter Channel indicates...

...Wait for a While, Death! Abdul Gofur Hali In this poem—­written in 1997—­Abdul Gofur Hali addresses death and evokes life as a chance to reach for the divine. He follows a poetic tradition in Bangladesh when he describes himself as “crazy.” Gofur is a well-­known representative of a...

...Keith Piper Wait, Did I Miss Something? Some Personal Musings on the 1980s and Beyond When I first heard about a conference whose specific and particular aim would be to reexamine the various trajectories taken by what has come to be described as the 1980s Black Art Movement, I was...

... appropriations but serve as entirely different modes of recognition (Berlant’s “wait up!” is, I suggest, an alternative form of calling to Althusser’s “hey, you there!”) ...

... us, ought not be welcome within the academy generally; rather, he raised very specific questions about being within the legal academy. And I would at least like to begin our conversation by exploring some of these questions. 16 Waiting for Langdell I Let me...

... initially give them, in my first-year property class. 142 Waiting for Langdell II LEVINSON. This generates one paradox which I find myself going through almost every year. I teach a constitutional law course that is deeply influenced by my colleague Philip Bobbitt and his notion...

... you more certain of yourself because you have to be in order to do the job, perhaps. But still, there is a distinction, ultimately, between the kind of dogmatism that somebody like Scalia or William Douglas manifests and the kind of 204 Waiting for Langdell III...

... three | Poor People’s Waiting Speeding Up Time, but Still Waiting Patricia is very angry. She left her four children (twelve, ten, eight, and four years old) alone at home in order to come to the welfare o≈ce. She began the paperwork for...

... do- mestic norms might provewhen homes were invaded and how resourcefully patriotic women might take their revenge. Nora Perry ‘‘mrs. f.’s waiting maid’’ (Harper’s Monthly, June 1867) When General Butler was in New...

... introduction | Tempography Waiting Now and Then ‘‘I’ve been after my pension for five years now . . . people at the municipal o≈ce said they lost my documents. They made me wait for a long time; they refused to see me. They gave me the run...