Word: dothe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expect from ourselves. We are all to some extent tending to our character, trying to turn efforts of will into habits of mind in the hope that generosity will one day come easily. People of all faiths find in charity a chance for thanks, praise and obedience. "What doth the Lord require of thee," asks Micah, "but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" To borrow from the Quakers, many volunteers believe that when the worship is over, the service begins...
...chilling, haunting stuff to the uninitiated ear. But I don't buy it. When you think about it, all this pre-menstrual screaming and yelling is reminiscent of nothing so much as the whining and complaining that we used to associate with funky female folkies. Methinks that the band doth protesteth too much, and this lack of subtlety, this blunt polemicism, can cut an album but it can't cut an attitude...
...Valerie Bryce), he practically swoons. Though he refuses to read to the slavering masses, he promises her, "I'll read it if you bid me, baby!", launching into an orgy of hilariously over-done verse. Needless to say, Patience understands none of it, and on top of that, she doth not dig the poet...
...Doth Zeckhauser and Tandler said the houseGinsburg bought "was in very bad shape" because ithad received heavy use as Harvard's Hillel House.Tandler added that Ginsburg spent more than atenth of the house's value to renovate it. ButZeckhauser said, "I can't say it was all becauseof the condition of the house...the market was notvery good for that type of house [when Ginsburgbought...
...Their cabinets were stuffed with baroque pearls, narwhal tusks, mandrake roots and fossils. The cult of the Wunderkammer rose where the demonic or angelic world view of the Middle Ages shifted into the classifying rationalism of the Enlightenment. "Those are pearls that were his eyes/ Nothing of him that doth fade/ But doth suffer a sea-change/ Into something rich and strange." Ariel's song in The Tempest imagines the sea itself as the Wunderkammer of the drowned King of Naples...