Word: discoverer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Joan Wilder (Kathleen Turner) is the kind of romance novelist who cries over her own happy endings and then puts a sprig of parsley on her cat's dinner so he can join in celebrating the completion of another bodice-ripping yarn. Because her life is not quite the...
Still, I fancied myself to be some Magellan-like discover, setting out to disprove the myths and stereotypes which we thrust upon the Soviet Union.
...sure, "the sanctity of the English sentence," is something few students discover, but a good literary education leads to other discoverers, wider in scope, among them the discovery that the works of great writers nourish the imagination and augment the wisdom of experience. Andy took courses under professors capable of giving such a literary education but none seems to have succeeded with...
The increase in arrests appears to be due less to a boost in police zeal than to the all too noticeable proliferation of pot smoking. The Drug Enforcement Administration estimates that some 30 million lbs. of marijuana were imported or grown in the U.S. last year, up from some 26...
No doubt some of the loss of interest in cities can be explained by America's constant desire to discover new issues. This year's seems to be the search for an industrial policy. Part also relates to the declining political importance of cities. By 1970 more people lived in...