Word: beautyful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ideal parent sounds more like it. The beauty of the system is that proctors are not supposed to criticize, discipline, or form your character. You are too old for that now. The proctor is supposed to perform services for mature young adults. He or she may bake cookies for the...
While most San Franciscans remained calm and all 37 actual fires were extinguished, the uneasiness in the streets became obvious. Before dawn on Thursday, Alioto decided to shift ground and grant the strikers their full pay increase-with a compromise gesture delaying its enactment until Oct. 15. He did not...
Manic Energy. Despite her unprecedented popularity, she grew increasingly dissatisfied with America and Americans, elevating snobbishness, her most unpleasant characteristic, to the height of religious pride. "Such dreariness, such whining callow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape!" she wrote after spending a...
The question will always remain how much his political buoyancy affected his music. As his contemporary Vladimir Nabokov pointed out, it is a wretched thing for an artist to leave his homeland and his native sounds, whether musical or verbal. Perhaps because Shostakovich had to bend his inspiration to the...
Cavafy is a laureate of loss: loss of youth, loss of love, loss of existence. Some poets seem to be peering at the dawn of the world; Cavafy stares at its doom, a weary Olympian contemplating the "toys of fate." With age, the poet might have become a complete Cassandra...