Word: deadness
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...which makes David Shields' heavy-handed, almost clinical exploration of these inevitable limitations somewhat disappointing. The premise of Shields' Dead Languages--assuming a novel can or should have a premise--is that "language...takes you where it wants to go, which may not be into life," and that "all languages--when they are used as masks, as hiding places for the feelings of the heart--are dead...
...Dead Languages...
...plug my baby back in." Linares, 23, and his wife Tamara had come to the Chicago hospital in the middle of the night to visit their 15-month-old son. Since swallowing an uninflated balloon and suffocating at a birthday party last August, little Samuel had been partly brain dead, kept alive by a life-support system...
Holy Writ Dept: Religious fundamentalism is apparently not yet dead at Harvard. A resident tutor received an overdue notice for a copy of the Vulgate, the Latin version of the Holy Bible penned by St. Jerome. In the space marked "author" was written...
Participants finished the service by singing commemorative songs and saying a prayer in memory of the dead, Savett said...