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The first major turning point / Malcolm X -- Salvation / Langston Hughes -- A whole society of loners and dreamers / William Allen -- My sixth Christmas / Floyd Dell -- On self-respect / Joan Didion -- Death in the woods / Sherwood Anderson -- Acquainted with the night / Robert Frost -- The abortion / Anne Sexton -- Seeing / Annie Dillard -- The death of a moth / Annie Dillard -- The turtle / John Steinbeck -- East Harlem / Patricia Cayo Sexton -- City walking / Edward Hoagland -- Uncle John's farm / Mark Twain -- The big two-hearted river, part I / Ernest Hemingway -- Traveling through the dark / William Stafford -- Education / E.B. White -- Pedestrian students and high-flying squirrels / Liane Ellison Norman -- Summerhill education vs. standard education / A.S. Neill -- Confessions of a misspent youth / Mara Wolynski -- Universities and their function / Alfred North Whitehead -- Of this time, of that place / Lionel Trilling -- In a spring still not written of / Robert Wallace -- Choosing the class of '83 / Evan Thomas -- The Peter principle / Raymond Hull -- The art of the memorandum / Joseph Porter Clerk, Jr. -- Jesse Jackson's revolutionary message / Harry S. Ashmore -- To bid the world farewell / Jessica Mitford -- The gentleman's guide to suicide / J.P. Donleavy -- Computers don't argue / Gordon R. Dickson -- The unknown citizen / W.H. Auden -- The wrong side of the generation gap / Ellen Goodman -- Omnigamy : the new kinship system / Lionel Tiger -- Untying the family / Eulah Laucks -- The cowards of Christmas Eve / Earl Shorris -- Counterparts / James Joyce -- Bloodstains / Joyce Carol Oates -- For L.G. : unseen for twenty years / Adrienne Rich -- Vogue works are trific, right? / William Safire -- Noun overuse phenomenon article / Bruce D. Price -- Weasel words / Carl P. Wrighter -- Bombing the paragraph / Henry Seidel Canby -- Connotation / Richard D. Altick -- An ethic of clarity / Donald Hall -- The apostate / George Milburn -- Sonnet 76, "Why is my verse so barren of new pride / William Shakespeare -- On decriminalization / Robert M. Hutchins -- The truth about the Black middle class / Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. -- What I saw at the abortion / Richard Selzer -- The case against all forms of government secrecy / Ramsey Clark -- Politics and the English language / George Orwell -- On the duty of civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau -- The declaration of independence / Thomas Jefferson -- The bear / William Faulkner -- First fight. Then fiddle. Ply the slipping string / Gwendolyn Brooks -- From The apology of Socrates / Plato -- A free man's worship / Bertrand Russell -- The efficacy of prayer / C.S. Lewis -- Father Damien / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Packed dirt, churchgoing, a dying cat, a traded car / John Updike -- Dover Beach / Mathew Arnold -- Choy's religion / Ann Steiner -- I can write / Theodore Roethke -- The summit of the years / John Burroughs -- We'll never conquer space / Arthur C. Clarke -- The cosmic prison / Loren C. Eiseley -- The long childhood / J. Bronowski -- Will our world survive? / John J. McKetta -- To err is human / Lewis Thomas -- Harrison Bergeron / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. -- The second coming / William Butler Yeats.
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