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Contains: The Mudbacks / Dereck Williamson Boyhood remembered / Mark Twain Dandelion wine / Ray Bradbury A Hanging / George Orwell "Another copter's comin' in, Cap'n" / Tom Tiede The Eagle / Alfred Lord Tennyson The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner / Randall Jarrell Auto wreck / Karl Shapiro Eve in darkness / Kaatje Hurlbut Aretha has the best man / Jane Howard Getting 'em ready for Darrell / Larry L. King I thought my last hour had come... / Robert Guillain An Absence of windows / Richard Selzer Incident / Countee Cullen Out, Out -- / Robert Frost I stand here ironing / Tillie Olsen What a lovely generalization!; Which which / James Thurber How 114 washing machines came to the Crow reservaton / Earl Shorris Riesumie / Dorothy Parker The World is a beautiful place / Lawrence Ferlinghetti The Unknown Citizen / W.H. Auden The Portable phonograph / Walter van Tilburg Clark How to write with style / Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. How to write clearly / Edward T. Thompson Madam Mosquito / Alice Gray How to say thank you / Ray Hoffman Wall covering / Dereck Williamson How to fight cold-proneness / John E. Eichenlaub Your reflex systems / Jonathan Miller Departmental / Robert Frost [The Story of an hour](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL20078864W) / Kate Chopin Just lather, that's all / Hernando Telliez Notes on punctuation / Lewis Thomas Fighting bugs organically / Laurence Sheehan Friends, good friends and such good friends / Judith Viorst Slavery and brutality / John Hope Franklin Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas The Darling / Anton Chekhov Wisdom from the devil's dictionary / Ambrose Bierce Why I want a wife / Judy Syfers Brevity / F.L. Lucas Immobilization / Wayne W. Dyer In Bed / Joan Didion Defining mental illness / Thomas Szasz Much madness is divinest sense / Emily Dickinson Metaphors / Sylvia Plath You all know the story of the other woman / Anne Sexton Ducks vs. hard rocks / Deairich Hunter Doin' somebody wrong / Ann Nietzke Men in bondage on an Easter morning / Seymour Krim They don't make them like they used to (Thank Goodness) / J. Baldwin Living in sin / Adrienne Rich The Garden of love / William Blake The Spring and the Fall / Edna St. Vincent Millay Naming of parts / Henry Reed The Other side of the hedge / E.M. Forster Rope / Katherine Anne Porter The Hating game / Peter Andrews Snarling cars / Paul Blumberg The Lowest animal / Mark Twain Toys / Roland Barthes Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold Before bed / Keith Waldrop The Untold lie / Sherwood Anderson The great person-hole-cover debate / Lindsy Van Gelder Drugs / Gore Vidal The bird and the machine / Loren Eiseley The youngest and brightest thing around / Lewis Thomas from Civil disobedience / Henry David Thooreau Growing your own revolution / Hugh Drummond Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen In Flanders Field / John McCrae To his coy mistress / Andrew Marvell The revolt of "Mother" / Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Not poor, just broke / Dick Gregory Aunt Charlotte's reward / Bernard Sloan Technical communication: the persuasive purpose / J.C. Mathes Weasel words: God's little helpers / Paul Stevens In the end was the euphemism / Fred M. Hechinger Wanton acts of usage / Christopher Hitchens Next to of course god america i / e.e. cummings The Twenty- third Psalm / The Bible (King James Version) The Twenty-third Psalm / Alan J. Simpson and Robert A. Baker The War prayer / Mark Twain I have a dream / Martin Luther King, Jr. There are no easy answers / Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) The Car for people whose means have changed but whose values haven't / Volvo A $3.2 million pulp romance / Cyra McFadden