Word: dismissed
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...having dinner. Upstairs the oboe is sleeping in its case. But this is language! Dismiss what I have said. Please! There's no longer any point in it. I was unhappy, so I wrote "the oboe is sleeping in its case." There is no more to it than that. We are able to tell ourselves that objects are sleeping only because we ourselves are not [sleeping]. Oboes never sleep. Of course, to say that oboes never sleep is not to say that oboes are awake at every moment. Nor is it to say that they are sleepless. Hearing an oboe...
Caught in the crossfire was a seemingly unlikely target: Konstantin Stanislavsky, the great Russian actor-teacher. Oddly enough, Stanislavsky has come to symbolize the differences between the two Red goliaths. His realistic "Method" training taught actors to reveal the truth of life; the Chinese dismiss this approach as an expression of bourgeois individualism. When a Chinese paper attacked Stanislavsky as a "paper tiger," Moscow's Literaturnaya Gazeta shot back that the Chinese theater had been rendered "lifeless and paralyzed" by the Cultural Revolution. It has come to that...
...after all, millions of adult Americans who have fought from the Argonne to Inchon and carry their own private knowledge of the necessities -and the better-forgotten brutalities -of personal combat. It would be reassuring to think that these explanations encompass the opinions of those who appear to dismiss My Lai; the alternative is to contemplate an American adaptability carried to the point of callousness and barbarism...
District Judge James Doyle of Madison refused to dismiss a legal challenge to the lottery made on Dec, 22 by David S. Stedolsky, a graduate student in computer planning at the University of Wisconsin, and 12 other young...