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...your hands to scoop up sleep as you would draw a grain of water and the forest will come: a green cloud a birch trunk like a chord of light and a thousand eyelids fluttering with forgotten leafy speech then you will recall the white morning when you waited for the opening of the gates...
...commercials which somehow capture the religiosity of modern times: this ancient is modern trick is common in Herbert. Note also his lack of punctuation, typical of all the poems in Elegy for the Departure, as well as his readiness to disregard physical categories (e.g. "a grain of water," "a chord of light"). Through such inverted interest in the elements, Herbert recalls the most ancient pre-Socratic philosophers and simultaneously makes his postmodern move, boldly taking language to the brink of obfuscation in order to make the metaphorical point. Herbert's own oblique language is captured in the phrase "forgotten leafy...
...James Sensenbrenner was solid, Jim Rogan was compelling if strident, and Asa Hutchinson stole the show. Ed Bryant was incoherent, "shockingly bad," as one Senator said later. Most of the other presentations were forgettable or repetitive, even annoying. But on Saturday, South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham struck an empathic chord. Instead of insisting, as others had, that the case was clear-cut, he acknowledged that the Senate faced a difficult decision. Then Hyde closed with a stirring summation. Said a Republican Senator who had been skeptical about the House managers: "We were impressed with how well prepared they were...
...Green's gamble has paid off handsomely. Moss has scored 11 touchdowns, gained 1,014 yds.--and up to this point has avoided penalties off the field. He's a top candidate for Rookie of the Year. Such vindication strikes a personal chord for Green, who grew up in a tough section of Harrisburg, Pa. "I saw a guy who had made some mistakes but was willing to fight it out," Green says of his decision to draft Moss. "Being an inner-city guy myself and having to fight for everything I've ever had, I felt that I understood...
...council's current predicament can largely be blamed on the administration of Robert M. Hyman '98 and his successor Lamelle D. Rawlins '99. Serving consecutively as the first popularly elected heads of the body, Hyman and Rawlins failed to strike an appropriate chord for student leaders. Undoubtedly, they are both lovely people, but their public style was arrogant and alienating...