Word: dears
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once little Merilee saw an animal kicked. And swore on the spot never to kick an animal. Now the vow has been betrayed. Dear Alfred. She is writing him a letter. In this heat even rattle snakes entwine in the shade of a cactus. And on torrid desert updrafts eagles cushion themselves for making eggs fertile. But we humans were not meant for such comforts. Longings we may have, sensations that alone we are incomplete. Organs for coupling and mouths for communication. But pity us, old Alfred. We are, finally, not built for it. Togethered, humans lose their selves, forget...
...Merilee loved Alfred and prayed daily to Saint Francis for Alfred to find peace on earth-before his bad habits and antsy ways were picked up by dear docile Girl. Love makes us love in our lovers' dogs what we cannot love in other's and would not like to see become habits...
...bureau's computer could appreciate that kind of talk-and so could the machine's human programmers. One year after the correspondence had begun, Fischer received punch cards in return and fed them into his machine. "Dear Human," read the printout, "at last I have found somebody who understands my language." The computer explained that it had been given the wrong license number by one of its human operators. The charge was dismissed, and the computer added cheerfully: "If you're ever in the neighborhood, come up and see me some time...
...like this one "interesting." After I read it several months ago. I myself tended to refer to it as "interesting" to my friends and ex-wives. Indeed I found it not only interesting but playable. I thought this work, Saunders first, might even be exciting in the theatre. But-dear friends and ex-wives-you never know until the product is as they say. on the counter, and I have now discovered I was wrong. Director David Boorstin does every thing he can for Saunders play and yet the play emerges as a stiff...
...Dear Ros" letters were impounded by the district attorney's office, which was questioning Donson about how they came into his possession. According to Donson, the letters were passed along to him by a night stenographer at Gilpatric's law office. The man had said that he knew Donson was a collector of art prints and that he had found the letters in a wastebasket. Donson took them to the auctioneer and received $500 in advance, but when he learned that they were stolen, he tried to get them back to return them to Gilpatric...