Word: learnedness
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Where has the fine art of the insult gone? there was a time in Europe when the cutting gibe was a respected weapon in political discourse. Lady Astor, Winston Churchill's nemesis, once said to him: "If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee." Churchill didn...
But after intermission, the idyllic first half segues into a more serious and true-to-life storyline, as the show’s cast survive some tough times to emerge a little more grown-up and genuine. Though some hearts get broken and a few life lessons are learned, the...
I wondered how the kids would turn out. The 11-year-old camper who was so frank about her incipient puberty also said that a visitor to the Lake Como resort twice touched her leg in the pool. (Camp wasn't in session; the girl had been visiting a relative...
In case anybody cares, yes, Draco Malfoy is still a cardboard villain who talks as if he's twiddling his mustachio. Yes, the Sorting Hat sings another embarrassingly lame song (Rowling, who has learned so much from Tolkien, should have learned to stay away from poetry). But Rowling does so...
No mention was made of advancing democracy or expanding civil rights over the next 17 years. And it's unrealistic to expect Hu to take any initiative on those fronts because his authority does not reside in his credentials as a visionary or ideologue. Having been on the losing side...