Word: cleverer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...questing princes, and, above all, trolls and tomtes. Trolls, as everyone knows, are huge, gnarly creatures. They have tails, live for three or four thousand years, and seem to be fond of putting children into frying pans. Tomtes, on the other hand, are small (ten inches tall), benign and clever. The illustrator, John Bauer, who died in 1918, seems to have been Sweden's answer to Arthur Rackham and Howard Pyle. A fondness for somber colors makes him a good deal better at painting trolls than princes...
People are forever telling Siddhartha how clever he is, and this is without a doubt one of his moments of genius. The phrase "great deal" is crucial: "alot" would have been too flippant; no contractions allowed, no "don'ts" and "gimmes" when you're searching for the Truth. But the part about learning from the river is more telling...
...personal life, people interpret events to suit their own purposes. Thus, to the abolitionists, Lincoln was a temporizer; in the eyes of the Copperheads, he was a radical. The Chicago Tribune thought the New Deal was a Red Star over America; new left historians say it was a clever sell-out to Wall Street. But seldom has an event so quickly inspired so many different self-serving interpretations as the Watergate scandal. In the last year and a half, the nation has witnessed the creation of a Watergate mythology which, if it prevails, will compound the disaster by obscuring...
Angus Wilson seemed to begin where Evelyn Waugh and Aldous Hux ley left off. It was as if he had been born a middle-aged comedian, clever but desolate. For him there was no initial period when a young satirist simply func tions: a predatory animal savagely but happily on the hunt...
Jane Howard took notes the first time she smoked pot. She is that sort of person, on the testimony of this busy autobiographical journal: clever, organized, earnest, eternally selfconscious. She is also only 38, and so her book is a kind of interim report...