Word: reading
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...challenge now is to communicate to those people who didn't read all we've been sending them, about why we did this name change," Bundles said...
...take that $17.1 trillion, saute it lightly for 40 years and divide by 5, by which time 2.3 million schoolchildren will be reaching retirement age without being able to read the labels on their prescription drugs. My opponent's plan would ignore this problem for the first 23 months and then take the first derivative times 6%--oh, yes you would! Yes you would! I've read your plan--but under my plan, every citizen of this country would multiply 19 by 7 and get a very large number. And I believe the American people can be trusted to perform...
...mean to dismiss the intellectual life for others. A while back, I saw Harold Bloom, the great old Yale professor and author, most recently of How to Read and Why, talking on C-SPAN's Booknotes. Weepy, flabby, brilliant, he was full of hope and sorrow for the literary life that is mistreated and unvalued today. He spoke up for Cervantes and Shakespeare. He had "divorced" the Yale English department. He hated e-books. If you have a mind like Bloom's, no problem...
...read and why. Why read The Great Gatsby? To punish oneself with the fact that while wishing life to be eternally renewable, eternally correctable, one knows--in the silent rooms of one's ridiculous mansions on the sea, brooding over the drunken parties and the Ain't We Got Fun? dancers--that...
There's nothing more fun to read than the faces of newborns. We pore over babies for signs of enchantment, enlightenment and intelligence. We project diva-size personalities and try to interpret every gurgle and gesture. We videotape incessantly, make them wear ridiculous hats and talk about their bodily functions in public...