Word: reading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DISCUSSIONS of reunification, however, can expose several misconceptions about German attitudes, politics and the international context of the reunification. The following are five rather curious views of the German situation, all read or overheard on campus in the past weeks...
Speaking at Sanders Theater, Ashbery, a professor of English at the City University of New York, read several excerpts from Beddoes as part of the lecture entitled "Olives and Anchovies: The Poetry of Thomas Lovell Beddoes...
IUSED to enjoy reading the newspaper. I would gloss over the articles, read some summaries and peruse the editorials. It was a daily, casual event that kept me abreast of the times, but didn't demand much intellectual strain...
...pages mirror my unsettled feeling. On one hand, we can read warnings from academics, hard-line Cold Warriors and eternal pessimists about how the demise of polarity could take us back to a Bismarckian Europe. But much more common, at least until the dust settles, are the jubilations over the domino theory in reverse. Every-where we're reminded what an exciting time it is to be alive...
NERUOSIS, elation, apprehention, fear, remorse--I have gone through the whole slate of emotional distress. But the one that keeps haunting me, that flashes in my mind each morning when I read the newspaper, is alienation. Here in Boston, studying in school and watching from afar, I feel left out of the very events that are defining my generation...