Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...four years, when the Crimson gridders take on their Big Green foes in Cambridge, a horde of fans descends on campus from the "Live Free or Die" state--and usually manage to reach remarkable heights of obnoxiousness during their short stay. While some Harvard undergraduates enter the fray, many know the best strategy for the Dartmouth weekend is to remain indoors, lest they be tagged by an errant beer bottle...
Bowersock admitted that he did not know if Bob Guccione, publisher of Penthouse magazine and producer of the film, had such intentions in mind when he made the movie. But he added, "I do think that for a thinking person, there is that to be taken from the film...
This is no mean designation; but, since critics are explainers, not storytellers, Mailer is usually perceived as a heavyweight and Capote as a lightweight. The champ himself contributed to this view in Advertisements for Myself (1959): "At his worst [Capote] has less to say than any good writer I know. I would suspect he hesitates between the attractions of Society which enjoys and so repays him for his unique gifts, and the novel he could write of the gossip column's real life, a major work, but it would banish him forever from his favorite world...
...artist has benefited. The new writings collected in Music for Chameleons get a maximum effect from a minimum number of words. Throughout these 14 pieces, the reader learns just how busy and varied Capote's life is. His range of acquaintances is not only vast but spooky. "I know Sirhan, and I knew Robert Kennedy, I knew Lee Harvey Oswald, and I knew Jack Kennedy," he says, explaining that he met Oswald in Moscow just after he defected...
...series of essays on Kipling, Jarrell echoed Mark Twain's remark that "it isn't what they don't know that hurts people, it's what they do know that isn't so." He urged readers to forget what they thought they knew of Kipling, the crude laureate of imperialism, and to replace it with a Kipling eloquently portrayed as "a great genius; and a great neurotic; and a great professional, one of the most skillful writers who have ever existed...