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Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë
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This 19th-century classic has not aged well. I confess I gave up half-way through, defeated by the self-absorption and mysoginy of its characters, the histrionics of their declarations, and the irksome artifice of its frame-tale device. I am aware that each of these criticisms could be countered with claims of needing to take into account Read more of this blog post »
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“Alemán Valdés rara vez es recordado por su mandato como gobernador de Veracruz.”
― Los gobernadores: Caciques del pasado y del presente
― Los gobernadores: Caciques del pasado y del presente
“Hay que admitir primero que donde existen tendencias marcadas, éstas tienen mucho que ver con la geografía y demografía. No puede ser casualidad que el estado que ha destituido a más gobernadores sea uno de los más montañosos: Guerrero. En sus valles remotos existe una histórica sospecha de los poderes ajenos, ya sea federales o estatales. Es poco sorpresivo que los diversos intentos gubernamentales por imponerse a la población hayan terminado muchas veces con sangre.”
― Los gobernadores: Caciques del pasado y del presente
― Los gobernadores: Caciques del pasado y del presente
“No todo esto se debió a Alemán. Más bien, el gobierno de Cárdenas ofreció exenciones para proteger las valiosas plantaciones frutales de banano, café, cacao y sisal de la reforma agraria. Alemán se limitó a utilizar estos decretos, que tenían una importancia significativa para Veracruz y sus terratenientes más ricos, en su beneficio.26”
― Los gobernadores: Caciques del pasado y del presente
― Los gobernadores: Caciques del pasado y del presente
“But when I began researching Robert Moses’ expressway-building, and kept reading, in textbook after textbook, some version of the phrase “the human cost of highways” with never a detailed examination of what the “human cost” truly consisted of or of how it stacked up against the benefits of highways, I found myself simply unable to go forward to the next chapter. I felt I just had to try to show—to make readers not only see but understand and feel—what “human cost” meant.”
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“After a while, the writers of the Allen Room invited me to lunch, which we thereafter ate almost every day in the employees’ cafeteria in the library basement. These writers included not just some who were already famous, but some who were, at the time, little better known than I was, like John Demaray, Lucy Komisar, Irene Mahoney and Susan Brownmiller, who was working on Against Our Will and would sit at the desk adjoining mine for the next two years, her petite feet, clad in brightly striped socks, sticking under the partition that divided our desks, giving me an odd feeling of companionship.”
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“We certainly see how government can work to your detriment today, but people have forgotten what government can do for you. They’ve forgotten the potential of government, the power of government, to transform people’s lives for the better.”
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“Elie Wiesel says that neutrality only helps the oppressor, never the victim. And I think you can apply that to journalism.”
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