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Trolling around the intertubes tonight I stumbled upon an essay in Slate by Christopher Benfey.
Wild nights---Wild nights! But was there a thee she were really with? 2008
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Trolling around the intertubes tonight I stumbled upon an essay in Slate by Christopher Benfey.
Lance Mannion: 2008
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According to Benfey, Desmond and Moore 'set out to overturn the widespread view that Darwin was a 'tough-minded scientist' who unflinchingly followed the trail of empirical research until it led to the stunning and unavoidable theory of evolution.
Archive 2009-02-01 Michel-Adrien Sheppard 2009
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According to Benfey, Desmond and Moore set out to overturn the widespread view that Darwin was a 'tough-minded scientist' who unflinchingly followed the trail of empirical research until it led to the stunning and unavoidable theory of evolution.
Book news on a Nixon tapes controversy, Darwin books, Sugrue review, and more Mary L. Dudziak 2009
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According to Benfey, Desmond and Moore 'set out to overturn the widespread view that Darwin was a 'tough-minded scientist' who unflinchingly followed the trail of empirical research until it led to the stunning and unavoidable theory of evolution.
Blawgosphere Comments on Darwin's 200th Birthday Michel-Adrien Sheppard 2009
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Both during and after the war, Benfey speculates, Americans "gradually left behind a static view of existence, a trust in fixed arrangements and hierarchies":
The Woman in White Oates, Joyce Carol 2008
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Benfey has written of this in such earlier essays as "The Mystery of Emily Dickinson" (in American Audacity), and here he associates Dickinson herself with the "route of evanescence" that finds its ideal expression in the hummingbird.
The Woman in White Oates, Joyce Carol 2008
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As Benfey notes, "she told him, twice, that he had saved her life."
The Woman in White Oates, Joyce Carol 2008
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Professor Benfey, followed by Mr. Keith Falconer, discovers between the Æsopic and the Hindu apologue: — “In the former animals are allowed to act as animals: the latter makes them act as men in the form of animals.”
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Professor Benfey believes (as usual with him) that this, with many others, derives from a Buddhist source.
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