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...that is truly particular to her. Yet the only thing that most people think of doing is taking the person out to dinner and buying them drinks. Like the Qwerty keyboard, it does its job, even though the results may be less than they could have been. The simplest, clearest path of least resistance is the obvious choice; lack of mass motivation to learn Dvorak or plan a more interesting celebration takes care of the rest...
...fireworks and the turgor of MickeySabbath are missed in Ira Ringold, but the radicalmaturity of Murray Ringold manages to stand intheir place. Pervertedly healthy Roth's MurrayRingold interrogates the past as if he still hadtime to learn from it (He dies two months afterthe story's present). The clearest communicationin I Married a Communist has little to dowith communism or troubled marriages, except inthat they are punching bags for athleticrecollection.Houghton Mifflin...
...situation?" or the one that goes, "Most great presidents have had affairs." Not the poll data showing that 6 in 10 Americans oppose impeachment. No, the argument that is convincing me that Clinton must stay in office is the procedural one: Congress should not, except in the rarest and clearest of circumstances, overturn the results of a fair and free election...
With so many traditional methods of narrative abandoned, what was left? Perhaps the clearest and most concise description of Joyce's technique came from the critic Edmund Wilson: "Joyce has attempted in Ulysses to render as exhaustively, as precisely and as directly as it is possible in words to do, what our participation in life is like--or rather, what it seems to us like as from moment to moment we live...
...good position to know. He has distinguished himself in too many specialties to be called a specialist. He is a research professor at Harvard, a renowned entomologist, a leading environmentalist and a founder of sociobiology, the study of genetically determined behavior. He is also one of the clearest and most dedicated popularizers of science since T.H. Huxley, the 19th century British biologist whose books and lectures brought the new heresies of geology and evolution to Prime Ministers and coal miners alike...