...Virginia Fitsgerald Copyright © 1921 by Duke University Press 1921 A Southern College Boy Eighty Years Ago Virginia Fitsgf.rald Blackstone, Virginia The life of a student is chequered with bright spots, and the petty disappointments and troubles may for a time be­ cloud his sky, yet like...

...D. Hiden Ramsey Copyright © 1943 by Duke University Press 1943 NINETEEN YEARS AGO AND TODAY* D. HIDEN RAMSEY NINETEEN YEARS ago this very night a great American lay dying. He had fought a good fight perhaps too grimly. He had kept the faith perhaps too stubbornly. After all, there was in him...

...Theodore Ropp Crimean Blunder: The Story of War with Russia a Hundred Years Ago . By Gibbs Peter . New York : Holt, Rhinehart and Winston, Inc. , 1960 . Pp. 297 . $4.50 . Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 108 The South Atlantic Quarterly history, and a capacity...

...Hal Foster How did critique become a bad object when, only a few decades ago, it seemed to be the cutting edge of cultural practice? This essay notes some of the recent vicissitudes of the critical enterprise, including the charges that it is destructive, cynical, or simply rote. Rather than...

...Michael Naas Jacques Derrida died more than five years ago now, but his work keeps on coming out and, in the case of his work on photography, keeps on developing . While three important works on photography were published in English during Derrida's lifetime (“The Deaths of Roland Barthes” [1981...

...Manie (Jong-Man Choi); Joyce C. H. Liu; Brett Neilson; Irene (HyeJung) Ahn Bidduth, Syed, and Samar were dishonorably deported from South Korea about fifteen years ago while they were protesting for the rights of undocumented migrant workers. Since returning to their home countries, Bangladesh...

... of the “rights of man,” as they were defined more than two centuries ago, but it also calls into question the concept of universalism, as certain people are profiled as possible terrorists and others are not. The rhetoric of safety is a convenient cover for serious challenges to the French way of life...

... Gulpilil Dalaithngu), a young Yolngu man living one thousand years ago, who is in love with his elder brother's youngest wife. To correct Dayindi's “wrong feelings,” his brother tells him another story that we also witness in the film, this one set tens of thousands of years in the ancient past. The essay...

...Todd Meyers Drawing on ethnographic work with one family in Baltimore that began over a decade ago, I consider how time, symptom, and forms of vulnerability and precarity come to shape polypathia (comorbidity). First, I attempt to demonstrate how life with concurrent and recurring illness has...

... nationalism that plagued the country and silenced the voices of those who attempted to reckon with structural inequality. In addition to their obvious contributions to Sudanese leftist historiography, Garang's views are as relevant today as they were decades ago. Garang scrupulously examines multicultural...

... their convictions had been affirmed by the highest court. The county was Spartanburg, and one concedes that those executions were exceptional. A few weeks ago a writer of fiction, a Southerner, published a short story in a magazine, the gist of which was that a good Negro was murdered by a planter for no other...

... celebrating? A political victory? No. The discovery of a gold mine on his plantation? No. The consummation of some important finan­ cial transaction? Not at all. Mr. Williams was celebrating the fact that he had succeeded in his effort to get 70 bushels of corn per acre from land that not long ago was only...

.... We are indebted to Frederick Engles for this most graphic description of the commercial crisis. He wrote it many years ago: The whole industrial and commercial world is thrown out of joint once every ten years. Commerce is at a standstill, the markets are glutted, products accumulate...

... went unnoticed for so long, since, like the chicken and the egg, the two are inextricably involved, each obviously implying the other both as cause and as result, as prede­ cessor and as successor. 418 The South Atlantic Quarterly Ten generations ago the average human being was, by modern standards...

...Howard Douglas Dozier Copyright © 1932 by Duke University Press 1932 MEN, WOMEN AND UNEMPLOYMENT HOWARD DOUGLAS DOZIER I ^EN years ago this week, the last in September, 1921, A somebody put this in the paper: The effect of the war in precipitating the entrance of women into public life...

...: Princeton University Press, 1949. Pp. xii, 159. $3-75- In his preface the writer of this study says he is carrying out a sug­ gestion made some twenty-three years ago, that study of Milton s com­ mentators on Judges is necessary to comprehension of the tragedy. It is a pleasure to find a scholar who...

... ago, displayed new novels by the dozen and the gross, are now so filled with Over the Top, Private Peat, and My Four Years in Germany, that one never no­ tices the fiction. Frequenters of libraries no longer call for the latest novel by Mr. Churchill or the latest poems by Mr. Masefield...

... more patriotism. Nineteen hundred years ago the religion of the world had Education in a Democracy. 229 become a thing of idle form and ceremony; it was a religion of the head and not of the heart. Then came the teachings of the man of Galilee and gave to religion a beating heart. So patriotism had...

... had begun with the first settlements, that of Virginia almost three hundred years ago, of Massa­ chusetts a little later, and of your own State in a scattered fashion along its tidewater frontage at a time almost as early. This colonial period we regard conveniently as hav­ ing ended...

... road to recovery, Walter Lippmann some time ago declared it to be as much a figment of the imagi­ nation as the lost island of Atlantis. His judgment on the economic policy in question may have been well warranted, but the simile he used for its denunciation merely proved the extent to which the old...