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Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

    Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

    Another Appetite

    It is often difficult, usually frustrating and seldom appreciated, but those of us who continue to live our lives faithful to our beliefs and ideals are truly patriots and lovers of freedom.

    By Judy BrattenJuly 1976
    Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

    Journal

    The two big trees fascinate me. . . . I watch the very tiptops of those trees and wonder if I can poise my consciousness in those leaves at the top long enough to BE there. I try.

    By Elizabeth Rose CampbellJuly 1976
    Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

    At Last

    It might be a sin against space or reality to try to concretize things into words. Then again there is this urge to describe the moment. What is this urge? Why is it so?

    By Gayle GarrisonJuly 1976
    Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

    Channel One

    Power is neither good nor bad. Power is focused ego producing or preventing change. We are children of America: power is our creed.

    By Leaf DiamantJuly 1976
    Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

    Who’s Who Of Local Space Travelers

    ARK-BRUTE the LARVA
    zone-chief No. 1, a human potentate related to the present author, a duck-shirted Uranian Rememberer, PULVERO, Overseer of Earth’s eastern seaboard.

    By PulveroJuly 1976
    Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

    One American Writer: Journeyman Into Silence

    Certainly it’s difficult to survive as a writer in America, but it may be more difficult to sustain oneself once having been published than it was in one’s first, frustrated, unpublished silence.

    By Christopher BrookhouseJuly 1976
    Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

    The Deposed King

    I live now like a deposed king, which is to say, with a slight air of once-proud nobility I cling to as I cling to the rags and tatters of my existence because it’s all I’ve got left.

    By Norm MoserJuly 1976
    Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

    Carrboro: Reflections Of A Small Town

    So here I stay, along with the others who shamefacedly admit that yes, they too graduated from the university years ago and no, they cannot think of a better Southern spot in which to live and perhaps grow old.

    By Gwen P. HarveyJuly 1976
    Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

    American Pie

    So it is that every fourth year we are treated to a seemingly new series of causes and slogans that are destined to end up being a further boost to special interests and privileged classes to which none of us belong.

    By William GaitherJuly 1976
    Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

    Common Sense: 1976

    A Manifesto Addressed To The Inhabitants Of America On The Following Interesting Subjects: Restraint, Bankruptcy, Selection, Dialectic

    The approach and arrival of the Bicentennial year has evoked considerable analyses of North American political retrospective. While most diagnoses conclude an ailing bi-centenarian suffering from blunted thrust to blemished future, few prescribe remedies for this ailing body politic.

    By Frank D. Rich Jr.July 1976
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