Word: wished
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only wish it weren't Brown's, either...
Although most speakers discussed topics related to their theses, Park says the society welcomes all students, especially those in Eliot, to speak on whatever they wish...
...wish: rarely has a jazz album come so directly from the heart. The opening cut, George Gershwin's I Loves You, Porgy, is exquisitely tranquil and songful, and the 10 tracks that follow are no less tender. Even Be My Love, Mario Lanza's high-C jukebox hit, is transmuted into a limpid cameo. The result is a record made to be played late at night, when the streets are empty, the air is still, and you feel like thinking about what might have been or could...
...Kong, the hero of Ha Jin's Waiting (Pantheon; 308 pages; $24), is hardly the first man, in or outside of fiction, to wish to end his first marriage and wed the woman he now loves. But rarely, if ever, has such a fellow been bedeviled by the array of obstacles Lin must confront. Not only is he scrupulously moral and thus vulnerable to all the guilty pangs of wayward husbandhood, but Lin's travails occur in a place--Communist China--and during a time--the early 1960s to the early '80s--when literally all occasions conspire against the quest...
Reality check! Good and evil are not as clear, neat and tidy as one might wish. Writer Stephen J. Dubner's talks with Kaczynski in prison revealed a man who is not the archetype of evil, complete with horns, but rather a banal, pitiful human being who committed violent and immoral crimes. And so what if the Unabomber's brother David Kaczynski and David's wife are complicated human beings who had emotions other than pure altruism in making their decision to turn Ted in? Struggling with honest human emotions is not a crime...