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 / 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