Word: blankly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fictions. It has been told before, but not recently and never in such detail. Biographer Frederick R. Karl, a professor of English at the City University of New York, has sifted through all the documents and some 4,000 surviving Conrad letters, including 1,500 never published. The blank spaces left in this portrait are probably there for good. Conrad covered his tracks carefully, destroying letters written to him, telling different correspondents contradictory anecdotes and romantically reshaping his past in published memoirs. Lengthy segments of his life vanished, like the wake of a ship...
Hynes made three spectacular saves from point-blank range late in the second period, and the Harvard offense finally responded the defense's example...
...works of art," he says, "but simply graphic narratives of good years in a good life, traces of one person's presence on earth that otherwise would be erased by time." The journals spur Goodfriend on to greater adventure. "To me, each new year becomes a batch of blank pages provoking and evoking experiences worthy of record. Dull lives make dull journals, and who would willingly author a ho-hum diary...
Influenced (as it profoundly was) by the chaos of World War I and the Utopian dreams of postwar social reorganization, internationalism and communality, Modernist architecture was obsessed with the blank slate. Le Corbusier was thus able to dream...
...know what happened. All they know is that they've been wronged. So that's all they claim, and then they use discovery to build their case. If you don't have liberal discovery, justice could not be done. The plaintiffs face a blank wall...