A Profile, from 1930: Keller was convinced that what she had done, others could do, Robert M. Coates writes—her struggle had been in combating the world’s refusal to regard her as a normal human being.
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Part 1 of the author’s classic series, from 1939: “Once upon a time there were two turkeys, an old turkey and a young turkey.”
Writer tells about shooting for sport at her home in Southern Rhodesia, when she was a girl. Her brother was a good shot and observed all sorts of …
John McPhee’s 1965 Profile of the Princeton basketball star Bill Bradley, whose achievements broke barriers in the Ivy League, where athletes of the highest calibre usually don’t show up.
Seymour M. Hersh’s 1972 piece about a mass killing of civilians during the Vietnam War.
Fiction, from 1982: “Mabel said that she had seen a thing or two, her eyes had been opened, but she would not say in what way.”