Showing Results 21 - 30 of 53
Restricted
Text
I am humbled by this nomination and so grateful to Al Gore for choosing me. And I want you to know tonight that I will work my heart out to make Al Gore the next president of the United States.
As I…
Contributor:
Joseph Lieberman
Places:
Stamford, United States of America
Date:
2000
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
With the passing of childhood and the waning of the impatient eagerness of adolescence, I was rapidly realizing that this was neither the best of all possible worlds, nor one that the optimism of late…
Contributor:
David de Sola Pool
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1953
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
There were two reasons why Di Yunge chose to carry on by themselves in a separate cafe. One was purely financial. The coffeehouse on Division Street was too dear for young writers, most of whom either…
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1954
Categories:
Public Access
Text
I was born, I have lived, and I have been made over. Is it not time to write my life’s story? I am just as much out of the way as if I were dead, for I am absolutely other than the person whose story…
Contributor:
Mary Antin
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1912
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
There are contradictions and ambivalences in our celebrating Thanksgiving. We are recent Americans. It wasn’t the Mayflower that brought our people over here. We know too much about what the coming of…
Contributor:
Anne Roiphe
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1981
Categories:
Restricted
Text
In the spring of 1961, I flunked an exam that would have enabled me to write an honors thesis. In reality, it was a minor failure—I was spending most of my time at the Crimson building, where I was…
Contributor:
Paul Cowan
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1982
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
The bathroom looked as though some spiteful thug had left his calling card after having robbed the house. As my father was tended to and he was what counted, I would just as soon have nailed the door…
Contributor:
Philip Roth
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1991
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
“I have a partner for the Point St Charles business,” said Pa.
“A partner! Why a partner?” said Aunt Julia. “Why are you afraid to do anything by yourself? And who is this partner?”
“Henoch,” he told…
Contributor:
Saul Bellow
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1992
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
As I was crossing Alexanderplatz on the first of April, I noticed a crowd of people gathering near the U-Bahn station at the other end of the square. The loudspeakers blared across the open space,…
Contributor:
Lisa Fittko
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1992
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
My father lived to be ninety-eight, and until the end of his life he never failed to introduce my sister and me with a grand gesture as his “two disappointments.” We were, very simply put, an…
Contributor:
Ruth Gay
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1996