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...Chanda: And when I go home I see like cotton fields, corn fields on the side of the road and I think this is so unlike Harvard Square...
...always cotton to Rosenblatt, but his ruminations on the "dainty violence" writers visit upon one another were delicious! Even the sainted American novelist Flannery O'Connor could not resist taking part in the intramural sport. Asked if she thought universities "stifle writers," O'Connor replied, "Not enough of them." CLARE MEAD ROSEN Bloomfield Hills, Mich...
...store I found it extremely difficult not to tell everybody that I, and not my nonwriter friend, had penned the best ice cream name the store would ever have. I saw the store's other sad, poorly written flavors, like Peanut Butter in My Chocolate and Cassie's Blue Cotton Candy with Sprinkles and the particularly lazy Vanilla. I found myself speaking in a loud, pastoral voice, saying, "My friend is amazingly talented, huh? Someone who perhaps should quit his day job and write a serious piece of literary fiction. He is what I believe is called a writer...
...microbes, similar to the way yogurt is curdled. The result has been compared to the polyester frequently used in plastic soda bottles, carpeting and wrinkle-free clothes, and clothing manufacturers are already salivating over the money-saving prospect of mixing cheaper plastics with such fibers as wool and cotton and selling them as "all natural." Note to shoppers: Pretty soon you may want to start reading those organic food labels more closely...
...argued that Russia had almost no chance of holding out. Still, Roosevelt insisted on including Russia in the lend-lease agreement. In the first year alone, America sent thousands of trucks, tanks, guns and bombers to Russia, along with enough food to keep Russian soldiers from starving, and enough cotton, blankets, shoes and boots to clothe the entire Russian army. The forbearance of the Russian army, in turn, bought the Allies the precious asset of time--time to mobilize the U.S. economy to produce the vast supply of weapons that was needed to catch up with and eventually surpass...