Word: note
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Most students thought that John Clive was a horrible lecturer. It is true, that his skill did not lie in mass communication with a horde of note-hungry, examination-bound types who take big Core classes (and expect them to be better than TV.). Mentally acute, Clive's diction was soft, often becoming a shambling murmur. Quietly watchful, he had the wisdom to regard undergraduates with a certain sarcasm, and the generosity of spirit to be genuinely helpful--if sought...
These unhappy people are now entering middle age, as is Beattie, 42, and they seem to have learned virtually nothing about anything. Wayne, who "had always been about to create a life for himself," earns a living of sorts by rewiring lamps. He leaves no note when he walks out on his wife Jody and their son Will. Jody drives "almost randomly" to some unnamed Southern town, gets a job as a clerk in a camera store, then becomes a successful wedding photographer. New characters keep appearing for a scene or two, then disappearing, as though this were not Beattie...
...unwarranted assumptions comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing with him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all intellectual fronts. After all Hume did not live in a vacuum...
...week's end police had not divulged the contents of a note Stuart left in his new Nissan except to say that Stuart could not bear the allegations made against him. The closest thing to a confession the stunned community may ever get was in Stuart's farewell letter to his wife. "We must know that ((God's)) will was done," wrote Stuart. "In our souls, we must forgive the sinner, because He would...
...real problem with this technique is that the reader begins to sympathize with Wing instead of the ridiculously self-indulgent protagonist. For example, the forward mentions a note that Wing supposedly writes to her research assistant at the end of the first chapter: "[Please] do a computer search and see how many times the word "cock" is used in this chapter. I feel like I'm drowning in pubic hair--if he prongs her once more I'll scream...