Word: breaths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Dominis, capturing the sights and sounds of President Nixon's visit to China last week meant exhausting 18-hour days of reporting. Each day Sidey and Schecter followed the President and Mrs. Nixon through their busy official schedule. When the First Family paused occasionally to catch its breath, our reporters traveled to Chinese schools, factories and army training fields to capture the quality of life in a country few U.S. journalists have seen in more than two decades...
...political realities. Not only does the performer poet create life in the solitude of his art, he goes through the process all over again on stage: each reading becomes, at best a writing. Life becomes lived at the heightened level of art, just as art is given the breath of life. During his reading of a poem, the poet performer becomes the poem itself. The interaction between the poet and his audience depends on the degree to which the poet is able to become the poem and transmit its being. Paradoxically, it is when the poet is able to forget...
...telling me, ME to get out of mytruck?' We could smell his breath way back in the cop car. So this dude starts leaning forward across his belly and looking real clear at the depty who's doing all the talking and starts wavin' the shotgun around his finger-like it's a fuckin' toothpick, man--and the deputy is a little skinny guy whose uniform is all trim and tucked and he says...
...such issues as the discovery of the "credibility gap", not the Red scare; it is difficult to see how preference for escalation could be associated with a disbelief in government casualty figures and progress reports. This fact leaves Professor Modigliani at a loss; he implies we must hold our breath till direct empirical evaluation of the Vietnam trust-distrust factor is possible. In the meantime, at least one interpretation deserves investigation...
...often see our classes as a perverse form of entertainment. Quality education should be exciting as a mutual process of interaction, not only between student and teacher, but between student and student especially. If a teaching mechanism is unsatisfactory, let us criticize it openly, and not mutter under our breath way back in the 22nd row, We've got to get on to deal with the issues...