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...Julietta Singh This essay considers the concept of the errand through its colonial ties, as a means of delivering forceful messages from an authority across time and space to other bodies. Troubling the colonial attachments to errand doing and errand making, the article turns to Harry Dodge’s video...

...Howard S. Babb The Errand of Form: An Assay of Jane Austen’s Art . By Wiesenfarth Joseph , F.S.C. New York : Fordham University Press , 1967 . Pp. xii , 189 . $5.95 . Copyright © 1968 by Duke University Press 1968 710 The South Atlantic Quarterly to him. Some men...

...Debra Thompson Black Lives Matter (BLM) has evoked a range of emotional responses from its supporters and critics. The vast majority of BLM protests have been peaceful demonstrations focused on the disruption of public spaces, everyday errands, and white indifference toward black suffering. Still...

.... See Errand into the Wilderness, (New York, 1956), pp. 4-5. 286 The South Atlantic Quarterly the deeper remorse over forsaking mother England herself. The Puri­ tan penchant to please God became the logical mechanism to displace doubts about opposing the established religious authority, an opposi­ tion...

... New England thrived on anxiety, on the disparity between the apparent failure of the errand into the wilderness and the assurances of biblical promise. But rather than immobilizing the apostate sons spiritually and psychically (recall the example of Hawthorne s Young Goodman Brown), the jeremiad...

... is different. After moving to Berlin from New York City a few years ago, I ve noticed that I run errands much slower and that I receive undivided attention only if I ve waited my turn. Once your turn comes, you can ask as many questions as you like. In New York City, on the other hand, you can easily get your...

... for investi­ gation as one of the most important industries for women in New York City, since it affords employment to every grade of women workers from the skilled craftsman to the machine oper­ ator and errand girl. Miss Van Kleeck s book is well illustrated with half tones showing the various processes...

..., would have attained more had it searched for the difficult answers to these questions. UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHAPEL HILL WILLIAM H. MARSHALL The Errand of Form: Art Assay of Jane Austen s Art. By Joseph Wiesenfarth, F.S.C. New York: Fordham University Press, 1967. Pp. xii, 189. $5.95...

... of the fellowship. Yet each person, out of his own resources and courage, might triumph because he achieved the 4. Ibid., 11; Perry Miller, Nature's Nation (Cambridge, Mass., 1967), 89; Perry Miller, Errand into the Wilderness (Cambridge, Mass., 1956), 185. On Miller s artistry, see Searl, Perry Miller as Artist...

... faith that, when suitably translated, were still viable. Waggoner, Hawthorne: A Critical Study, 15. A prominent truth would be the Innate Depravity of man. 11. Perry Miller, The Marrow of Puritan Divinity, in his Errand Into the Wilderness (New York, 1956), 92. Hawthorne and the American Character...

... spasmodically, and when he lifted off his great flop­ ping straw hat his hair was purest white. I explained my errand and, not without some examination, was bowed to a seat and offered a pipe. That s all stuff and nonsense about the war (to him there had been but one in the history of this world) making...

... petty errands.7 Likewise, witness the inarticulate despair of Kurt Vonnegut s Billy Pilgrim in Slaughterhouse-Five over his Green Beret son and Vonnegut s impotent admonition in the preface to his own sons to take no part in massacres or to delight in news of them.8 Heller, at the same time, is both...

..., watching with calm detachment the preoccupied natives hurrying by on their multifarious workaday errands. It is indeed a charming vantage-point from which to contemplate the universe. Few who have known its joys can resist its appeal, nor do we see any reason why they should. Nevertheless...

...-fashioned structure, with a stone-paved passage from back to front and recesses and stairs and rooms where, it was said, you least expect to find them. The students made their own beds, prepared their own food, ran their own errands; an austere yet contented self-help was the rule of the settlement. Syd...

... belligerent or overbearing about Mor­ gan. Rather, you d say vigorous and enthusiastic and clean and determined. 42 The South Atlantic Quarterly Morgan s fanatical Anglomania is something that still sends me on futile errands into psychology. Not just Anglomania, fanatical. The greatest race on earth, he...

.... Together, the four volumes con­ stitute a work which the publisher accurately describes as indispensable for scholars of eighteenth-century literature. [o.w.f. This reprint in the John Harvard Library series, A Fool s Errand, by Albion W. Tourgee (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Har­ vard University...

... and trimmed their wicks and ran errands until he was twelve, but had plenty of leisure to learn to swim strongly and to manage all sorts of boats. As a help in swimming he made two wooden paddles about ten inches long and six inches broad and shaped some­ thing like an artist s palette, with a hole...

... body lines. Clear aris­ tocracy shone in every one. I approached cautiously. Stubborn Lass, the mother, considered me carefully, sniffed at my shoes a moment, and, evidently satisfied since I smelled of neither cat nor dog, lay down and waited. She knew my errand beyond any doubt. All around us frisked...

... general principle exists to the effect that official time should not be frittered away on personal errands. Some reconciliation therefore seems necessary between the broad, selfevident ethical principle and the necessity for catering to customers at all times that must animate so noble an institution...

... transisstis, jacta est alea, ye have turned the Devill out of doores; The Simple Cobbler of Agawam 167 fling all his old parrell after him out at the windows, lest he makes an errand for it againe. Ward s religious ideas were no more rigidly cramped and virulently malevolent than his patriotism...