Word: think
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Spadafora said, "I took the job because I though I could administer the law effectively and correctly. In the two weeks that I have been on the job, I think we were just beginning to make some progress...
Kagan said that there are about 90 per cent women in the forum. "Everyone here is quite serious. I don't think anyone feels that he has to convince anyone else of the necessity and urgency of what we're involved...
...knew nothing about poetry. My favorite poem was "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, which my father recited to us frequently because it was written about my brother's birthday. I didn't enjoy reading poems; they were difficult, and I didn't think they were interesting enough to make the difficulty worthwhile. But I had a young and very good English teacher that year, and he put "The Fish" in front of us, so I read...
...about the present "flabby, soggy period of instant poetry," and said that "the poet is seen more and more as a person who appears in public and strikes attitudes. As rhetoric disappears from political life . . . it seems to be making a backstairs re-entry via the 'poetry reading.'" Wain thinks we have lost our sense of discipline in the search for immediacy, and he predicts that if crowd-pleasing has become a criterion of excellence, poetry, which has lasted for thousands of years, has a future "no longer than the future of the Beatles." We all have our own ideas...
...main the Edwardians were as self-possessed as their older brothers, the late Victorians, and a good deal gayer. The Empire was at its apogee; surveying his South African fortune and keeping his subjunctives firmly in place, Cecil Rhodes said, "If there be a God I think he would like me to paint as much of Africa British-Red as possible." Yet great social reforms at home permitted the top authors-Kipling, Shaw and Wells-to be optimists and rationalists in ways that no major writer has ever been since. Venerable Author J.B. Priestley indulges...