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Samuel Johnson, in his own idiosyncratic dictionary, defined lexicographer as a "harmless drudge." Murray was a delightful drudge of enormous energy. Born in a small Scottish village and largely self-taught (a process that saved him from mere pedantry), Murray could pick up languages as if he were shopping for...
Ross first met Chavez in San Jose in 1952, he said. The two worked together in the Community Service Organization until Chavez left in 1962 to devote all his time to organizing Chicano farm workers.
Seattle is a city that works-rand works very well -largely because it has a cadre of civic-minded businessmen who have become a kind of separate branch of government, willing to devote time and talent to improving the culture and commonweal. When one of these leaders has an idea...
There is, of course, a method to all this madness. The determined denial of reality is designed to curb our frustration by giving us a glimpse of the millenium, in which man will live harmoniously with nature, children will no longer be molested, street gangs will devote themselves exclusively to...
"The people who came to the meeting were energetic and expressed a willingness to devote time to the group's future activities," Bernstein said.