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Fort Worth : Harcourt College Publishers, ©2001.

xviii, 775 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Includes index.

American values. A good man is hard to find / Flannery O'Connor -- Affirmative action and women / Becky Winkler -- Aging / Kimberly Caitlin Wheeler -- Bricklayer's boy / Alfred Lubrano -- Choosing single motherhood: a sign of modern times? / Stephanie Hollingsworth -- Family values / Claudia Sanders -- From Conservation and liberalism / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Economic growth requires environmental compromises / Lester C. Thurow -- I am tired of fighting / Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé -- "Mirror, mirror, on the wall ..." / John Leo -- Our values hurt the environment / Joseph W. Krutch -- Rules for aging / Roger Rosenblatt -- Saving life on Earth--It doesn't take an education / Michèle Izzo -- Shame / Dick Gregory -- Some of us had been threatening our friend Colby / Donald Barthelme -- That lean and hungry look / Suzanne Jordan -- The buck stops where? / Barry Parr -- The view from eighty / Malcolm Cowley.

We do abortions here / Sallie Tisdale -- Why I went to the woods / Henry David Thoreau -- Education. A, B, and C: the human element in mathematics / Stephen Leacock -- Books / Allan Bloom -- English 101 / Bart Edelman -- Kinds of discipline / John Holt -- Take this fish and look at it [excerpt] / Samuel H. Scudder -- Language. A brief lexicon of jargon / Richard K. Redfern -- BaffleGab Thesaurus / Time -- Change in the English language / Bill Bryson -- Coming into language / Jimmy Santiago Baca -- Keep the factoids and just stick to the facts / Dennis Baron -- How to say nothing in five hundred words / Paul Roberts -- How to write clearly / Edward T. Thompson -- In praise of the humble comma / Pico Iyer -- Patterns of development for the subject "guilt" / The Editors -- Simplicity [excerpt] / William Zinsser -- The controlling concept / Harry Crosby and George Estey -- The function of the paragraph / Richard M. Weaver -- The thesis / Sheridan Baker.

Three bears in search of an author / Dan Greenburg -- What--and how--to write when you have no time to write / Donald Murray -- What is style? / F.L. Lucas -- Words: our most important tools [excerpt] / Bergen Evans -- Writing successful paragraphs [excerpt] / A.M. Tibbetts and Charlene Tibbetts -- Literature and the arts. A diarist on diarists / Gail Godwin -- A worn, but lightly traveled path / Douglas B. Inman -- Ars poetica / Archibald MacLeish -- Kitsch / Gilbert Highet -- Shakespeare in the bush / Laura Bohannan -- What is a poet? / Mark Van Doren -- Man and Woman. How we raise boys and girls differently--And why it's wrong / Judy Mann -- I want a wife / Judy Syfers -- Living in sin / Adrienne Rich -- On sexual separatism / Diana Trilling -- Stay young / Marya Mannes -- That time of year (Sonnet 73) / William Shakespeare -- The catbird seat / James Thurber -- The storm / Kate Chopin -- "Woman" is a noun / Paula Rewa.

Philosophy and religion. An argument against hating our enemies / Etty Hillesum -- Black book in rainy weather / Sylvia Plath -- Design / Robert Frost -- Dooley is a traitor / James Michie -- From The lessons of the past / Edith Hamilton -- Hell / James Joyce -- How to be an army / Kenneth Patchen -- Letter to the Rev. J. Page Hopps / Oscar Wilde -- Man against darkness / W.T. Stace -- My wood / E.M. Forster -- On developing human values / Gerald A. Larue -- Salvation [excerpt] / Langston Hughes -- Spring / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- The existence of God / Ara Babaian -- Threes / Carl Sandburg -- What did Carl Sagan see at the moment of his death? / Eric Ringham -- Where was God? / Elie Wiesel -- Portrait of the individual. A worn path / Eudora Welty -- Curiosity / Alastair Reid -- Diogenes and Alexander / Gilbert Highet -- Grant and Lee: a study in contrasts / Bruce Catton -- Have a cigar / James Herriot -- Hitler's workday [excerpt] / William Shirer.

Hunting octopus in the Gilbert Islands / Sir Arthur Grimble -- In an assassin's footsteps / David Montgomery -- My name is Margaret / Maya Angelou -- Once more to the lake / E.B. White -- Pigeon woman / May Swenson -- Remarks on the life of Sacco and on his own life and execution / Bartolomeo Vanzetti -- The company man / Ellen Goodman -- The odour of cheese / Jerome K. Jerome -- Those winter sundays / Robert Hayden -- Science. Dian Fossey: a scientist who stopped caring about science / Margie Vickers -- On disease / Lewis Thomas -- Social problems. A modest proposal / Jonathan Swift -- Affirmative Action: the price of preference / Shelby Steele -- Don't blame the parents, it's mainly the peers / Judith Rich Harris -- Don't legalize drugs / Morton M. Kondracke -- Drug use: the continuing epidemic / Linda Kunze -- Drugs / Gore Vidal -- Homeless: expose the myths / Joseph Perkins -- How she became homeless / Linda Weltner.

I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- If we keep on doing what we're doing, we're gonna keep getting what we've got / Francena Thomas -- Pain / William Somerset Maugham -- People out on a limb / Antoinette Poodt -- Racism: how far have we come? / Nancey Phillips -- Sex predators can't be saved / Andrew Vachss -- Shooting an elephant / George Orwell -- Social cesspool polluting youth / Laura Schlessinger -- The end of racism / Dinesh D'Souza -- The flood / Robert Frost -- The great white myth / Anna Quindlen -- The grieving never ends / Roxanne Roberts -- The libido for the ugly / H.L. Mencken -- Warriors don't cry [excerpt] / Melba Pattillo Beals -- Why tigers become man-eaters / Jim Corbett -- Violence rampant among teens / Michael Cotton -- Thinking. Introduction to logic / John C. Sherwood -- Obstacles to clear thinking / Richard D. Altick -- The idols / Francis Bacon -- Thinking as a hobby / William Golding.

McCuen, Jo Ray, 1929-

Winkler, Anthony C.

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