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1st ed |
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xi, 244 pages ; 25 cm |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-244) |
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Nature. Life ; Prohibited ; Summertime ; Seeds ; Dressing up ; Tomorrow snow ; Dismal? ; The arrival of spring ; Winter back yard ; Plant the garden anyway ; Danbury Fair ; Save the grizzlies ; Danish moose ; Alarm-geese ; Turtle blood bank -- The word. Vermin ; The cost of hyphens ; Travel brochure ; No verbs ; Writer at work ; Motivation ; Writing as a profession ; Honor roll ; Unwritten ; Accelerating culture ; Our contentious readers ; Editorial writers ; Rainbow workers ; Expediency ; Accredited writers? ; Satire on demand ; The thud of ideas ; The humor paradox ; Affair with humor -- Thoreau. The individualist ; Walden ; Thoreau and shelter ; Visitors to the pond -- Liberty. Anything like that ; The Constitution ; Political speechmaking ; Liberalism ; Voter sanity ; A voice heard in the land ; Polling ; Social security ; Our political exiles ; Orthodoxy ; Newspaper strike ; We're all Americans ; A busy place -- Maine. Come one, come all ; Blending in ; Pulpwood ; Late August ; Change of season -- One world. Inimical forces ; Common enemy ; Scrap iron ; Vigil ; Supremacy ; Liberation of Paris ; U.N. arrow ; The universal theme ; Eagles and bears ; Snowstorms ; Piranhas ; Citizen of the world ; Friendship cards ; Hungarian revolt ; Khrushchev and I (A study in similarities) ; Moon landing -- Body and mind. Hunger ; Up and down ; My physical handicap, ha, ha ; Life phases ; Guilty gums ; Radiography ; The cold ; Cricket-in-the-ear ; Hospital visit ; The ice dance -- Science. Mysteries of life ; Seeing things ; Technological progress ; Gravity ; Silence of the spheres ; Hot pipes ; Fred on space -- The academic life. No crackpots? ; Academic freedom ; Selecting school books ; The living language -- Business. Dog eat dog ; Strikes ; Predatory ; What every adult should know ; Tadpoles and telephones ; Truth-in-advertising ; Ravished lips ; What? They don't work? ; Stock market zigzags ; Split personalities ; Market watchers ; Curiosities and inventions. Hotspur the swift ; Buy a battleship? ; Animal voices ; Then and now ; Fitting in ; Soothing the chickens ; The old and the new ; Revolving doors ; Perils of the sea ; Making do ; Get a handle on it ; Hand throttle ; Taking it with you ; Television ; Air-conditioned fires ; Brandy kegs ; Grandfather clocks -- Christmas spirit. Midnight mass ; Woolworth Madonna ; Relative pronouns ; Holiday greetings ; Feed the birds! ; Remembrance is sufficient -- New York. Interview with a sparrow ; Ascension ; The New York garbageman ; Crossing the street ; Visiting motorists ; New York in March ; Moving ; The look of a native ; Walking to work ; The lure of New York ; New York soil ; New York's cocktail ; Coping with sootfall ; The ramble ; Tumbleweed ; New York -- Whims. Certainties ; Separations ; Salutations ; Lindbergh's glory ; Disillusion ; Hippodrome ; Old coat ; Colonization ; Frontier ; Barrymore's ideal ; Boat shows ; Leisure class -- Endings and farewells. Immortality ; The life triumphant ; Doomsday ; H.W. Ross ; James Thurber ; John F. Kennedy |
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A delightful, witty, spirited collection of short pieces and essays by the inimitable E. B. White |
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English prose -- Essays
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United States
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| Alt Author |
Dale, Rebecca M
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| Vari Title |
New Yorker (New York, N.Y. : 1925)
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