A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of WarFrom the author of the highly acclaimed Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her, a radical rethinking of the nature of war and gender and the illuminating interplay between private suffering and public tragedy. Griffin uses diaries, art, literature, psychology, and historical documents to illustrate the unexpectedly broad range of causes and effects of war. |
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Page 89
... Oak Ridge for him , staffed with psychiatrists , phy- sicians , orderlies and janitors , each chosen especially for this work , judged trustworthy and able to keep secrets . The ensign is given continual sedation . Whenever he begins to ...
... Oak Ridge for him , staffed with psychiatrists , phy- sicians , orderlies and janitors , each chosen especially for this work , judged trustworthy and able to keep secrets . The ensign is given continual sedation . Whenever he begins to ...
Page 92
... Oak Ridge . Now , six of her ten children work there , some as scientists and engineers , tutored by their mother's love of knowledge . Edna's husband is retired now with a lung disease the plant doctors tell him came from smoking . A ...
... Oak Ridge . Now , six of her ten children work there , some as scientists and engineers , tutored by their mother's love of knowledge . Edna's husband is retired now with a lung disease the plant doctors tell him came from smoking . A ...
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... Oak Ridge , Tennessee . One room of this museum holds objects left behind from Wheat , the farming community that once stood on the site of Oak Ridge -scythes , plows , butter churns , wooden chairs , hand - carved toys and musical ...
... Oak Ridge , Tennessee . One room of this museum holds objects left behind from Wheat , the farming community that once stood on the site of Oak Ridge -scythes , plows , butter churns , wooden chairs , hand - carved toys and musical ...
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