Word: wordsã
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...detail. But it is “History of A Disturbance,” embedded halfway into the collection, that summarizes the predicament Millhauser’s whole project must confront. “History” is narrated by a man who gradually “casts off words?? due to the dawning realization that they “blur together elements that exist apart, or they break elements into pieces, bind up the world, contract it into hard little pellets of perception.” The fact that the narrator is using words in the first...
...fear but rather one of subtle protest. They’re getting more attention by deciding not to air the poem. The station is known for its risky behavior in the past, including its decision to air George Carlin’s “Seven Dirty Words?? recording (for which they were heavily fined), so maybe they’re trying a different tactic in the debate over free speech.Perhaps, by the 100th anniversary of “Howl,” we’ll be able to listen to him and Ferlinghetti in all their...
...minutes ticked away before his prime-time address, his 11-year-old twin daughters brought their nervous father a sheet of paper. Looking down, expecting to see his first words??“I accept!”—Summers instead found a new draft penned by his children: “Harvard is good. Harvard is great. Let us go forth and educate,” he recalled this week...
...Crimson has also quoted Murphy as saying: “We’ve gone to the trouble of collecting the intellectual property of the book lists [from the professors]... [a]nd we wanted to make sure that we’re not going to—my words??shoot ourselves in the foot in terms of how we give that information out. That’s a valuable asset...
...wanted to make sure that we’re not going to—my words??shoot ourselves in the foot in terms of how we give that information out. That’s a valuable asset to us,” he said, although Murphy did not rule out the possibility of a partnership with Crimson Reading in the future...