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Common Knowledge (2003) 9 (1): 166.
Published: 01 January 2003
..., for a devastating indictment of Western advice and some cautious pre- scriptions for how a functioning economy might be resuscitated from the ruins. —Ronald Suny Jonathan Power, Like Water on Stone: The Story of Amnesty International COMMON...
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (1): 67–74.
Published: 01 January 2017
... Gilead , of a child baptizing kittens with creek water—the instructor raises questions about how materials convey holiness and influence viewers or worshippers. She prods history and literature students, both graduate and undergraduate, to take physical objects seriously as evidence, and she challenges...
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Common Knowledge (2016) 22 (2): 301–303.
Published: 01 May 2016
.... In the cathedral gateway stands a broad-­ brimmed scarlet hat with ladder tassels, its triangles sprawling widely apart, like fish about to propagate, in the water. The cardinal is celebrating mass for a younger sister believed to be dead. Stairs, like a sodden book, slope up to the church. Only two...
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (3): 352–356.
Published: 01 September 2022
...Iya Kiva; Maru Mushtrieva; Eugene Ostashevsky we shall tie together white kerchiefs of tears in the house of love we are not afraid, we shall say, to be or not to be in the umbilical cord of time so trees pushing roots into rain turn to sky in the arms of birds so water...
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Common Knowledge (2023) 29 (1): 1–20.
Published: 01 January 2023
... like a fish in warm water: it doesn't react to anything, swims slowly like it doesn't care if it swallows a hook or not. The excitement and exaltation pass into oppression, just as our necks have sunk into our shoulders, our shoulders into our lumbars, our lumbars into our nether regions. The holiday...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (2): 276–289.
Published: 01 April 2020
... church, recited prayers and blessed the public by sprinkling holy water on them and on a large sheep tied up nearby. During the short service, about a third of the attendees, among whom the director and the few women who occupy high positions in the administration, crossed themselves in accordance...
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Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (1): 97–153.
Published: 01 January 2009
... and drink a lot of water. Wedepends.” It gotknows? our“Who kits together. what?” “Then pluga...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (2): 364–367.
Published: 01 April 2020
.... All you need to do is take boiling water and throw it up in the air. The meeting of the boiling water and ice- cold air means that the water freezes immediately in a small flurry of snow. It made me think of women. THAT S WHAT WOMEN ARE LIKE, I thought. Women are a fluffy and colorless small shower...
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Common Knowledge (2021) 27 (2): 252–261.
Published: 01 May 2021
... of red.         * Those “water-colored clouds”— I'm glad I got them off my chest. VISUALIZATION Check the box with a pen rummaged from an orange, pleated faux-leather purse— a clutch bag to be exact— two brass knobs on top twisted shut like...
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Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 411–423.
Published: 01 August 2013
..., is extant along the southwest shore of Lake Neuchâtel, at Yverdon-­les-­Baines. In 1998, Diller and Scofidio had proposed to expo planners a “media pavilion,” of which water and air would be the primary building materials. The exhibi- tion area would be sited on a grid of floating platforms...
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Common Knowledge (2012) 18 (2): 325–347.
Published: 01 April 2012
... -mile angle of cooksmoke pillars mushrooms overnight. Scarcely acar, Scarcely overnight. mushrooms pillars of cooksmoke angle -mile water’s plantation. water’s way the showed them directly brother...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (2): 308–332.
Published: 01 April 2020
... peripherally by giving their Christian neighbors milk, butter, and especially water for the Orthodox ceremony of the blessing of water. Among Christians, this donation of water produced amazement and also rumors that the donors had Christian origins. The blessing of water on January 6 was practiced by many...
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Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (3): 571–581.
Published: 01 August 2002
... and the tea in the saucer wrestle like halibut. The moon with the moon, star with star, snow with water and snow’s daughter and bread with butter– everywhere battles...
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Common Knowledge (2022) 28 (1): 165–174.
Published: 01 January 2022
... but the sandbar, friends known only then and there, on this transient island, there for hours, then not. High school kids have summer sandbar crushes, a love only abiding in this rising, then inundating, moment. Each visit to the sandbar has that tragic recognition, so much part of the fun! When water...
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Common Knowledge (2010) 16 (3): 417–423.
Published: 01 August 2010
... the is Descartes, ( water. Method more dramatically powerful. Power is not the point; strength is not the point; effective integrally and complex, more integral expansively that seems despite to losing the separate oneboundary from another. We become losingwe illusionthe were that madesubjectsthink...
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (3): 548.
Published: 01 September 2017
... , the Spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.” in agree three these water, blood:and the and Spirit, , the Still, minute philological wrangling has its pleasures...
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Common Knowledge (2011) 17 (1): 155–162.
Published: 01 January 2011
... ) although the water goes down the drain with a different different a with drain the down water goes the although...
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Common Knowledge (2003) 9 (3): 520–526.
Published: 01 August 2003
... everything off Water in ruin water at rest River leaving everything intact Fold of (no) (no) Hold me together I’m cracking 10 The sea has not fallen The sea has not fallen (Offstage whisper) The sea has not fallen 11 One believed in a beautiful house Nowhere...
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Common Knowledge (2020) 26 (1): 125–135.
Published: 01 January 2020
... the Waters The soul of man Is like the water: From the sky it comes, To the sky it goes And down again It must to the earth, Changing ever. In a limpid jet It streams from the high Steeps of the rockwall, Sprays lovingly In waves of cloud Upon glossy stone; And accepted lightly Undulates in veils Soft...
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Common Knowledge (2017) 23 (2): 199–206.
Published: 01 April 2017
...- the in forkto have out Didhimself, Woodville consumed. Woodville drink and water, food whatever and shaving linen, bed forproviding recompensed be to had NewInn ofthe landlord The lodging? and board forhis paid 1469. Who in diet that heendure to had would have I donot matter,think...