Word: closer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mallon says every English teacher harbors a desire to write creatively, perhaps because they are closer to their critical subject than other scholars, since they are writing about other people's writing...
...earthly signifier of the divine. Advancing rapidly in style from decade to decade, the kouroi appear to be the first examples of art for art's sake, their function as temple statues and grave markers taking second place to the opportunity they offered the sculptor to reach ever closer to ideal form...
...comparison of South Africa with the Nazi regime is much closer than one might think--every South African prime minister since 1948, except one, was imprisoned during World War II for pro-Nazi sympathies. Not surprisingly, these South African leaders have continued their abuse of human rights...
...never seen a Grapefruit League game, but reading the Globe every morning brings me closer. As if there's someplace, perhaps a cloud, floating between Winter Haven and Boston, allowing for both the gradual thaw and the full-body plunge into total warmth, the spring of anticipation and the spring of indulgement unified in my mind. After all, spring training is the time to dream...
...understanding the significance of the discussion? Maybe you're just frustrated with the neophyte philosopherkings in your section "who know not what they say?" Forgive them. Instead of dwelling on their insignificance, take a break from the pseudo and step into the cereberal dimension of Harvard theater. It's closer than you think in Quincy House's production of Insignificance...