Word: oath
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...that's not to say that Ashbery isn't a good poet, North asserts; it's just that critics miss the mark when analyzing his work. "They're not interested in any of the early stuff we all love," North explains, "like The Tennis Court Oath." The 1962 collection presents a mishmash of generally incomprehensible image fragments intended to reflect the experience of everyday consciousness. "Harold Bloom sort of dismissed The Tennis Court Oath as John getting through to the real stuff that Harold Bloom can understand. I think it's fair to say that, as poets...
...Rest confidently, one of these two [candidates] will peacefully raise their hand in oath...come Jan. 20," he said. "No one can convince me that we don't have the time for due process...
...will always remember that the First Father of the First Family, who is responsible for setting a national example, brought shame and public humiliation on his wife, his daughter and his country by marital infidelity and by lying under oath--right into the camera, looking straight into my face! I take it personally. As President of the United States, he betrayed his obligation to his family, his profession as an attorney and his office...
...told the packed auditorium that she was elected to the parliament but prevented from taking her oath of office because her headscarf, associated with Muslim conservatism, was viewed as a threat to the secular culture. Her citizenship was then revoked...
...scandals have been as humiliating for our great republic as they have been historic in scope and size. Filegate, Travelgate, hidden e-mails, lying under oath, hell to pay, abuse of the FBI, of the personnel system; a health-care task force that violated federal law; grand juries, billing records; Lincoln bedroom, troopers, bimbos, coffees, lies. Most terribly, foreign agents carrying cash meet with our President in the Oval Office; they stand in their shiny shoes on the great seal of the United States and later receive what they want: military technology. As a result, China now has weaponry that...