Word: dothings
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...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...
...Holy Bible. It was our Poet, Longfellow, who wrote of Mary as "Mankind's solitary boast." Why would the people of Massachusetts allow this filth anytime, but especially now in the Christmas season? The author takes the Magnificat, the great prayer of Mary wherein She praises God: "My sould doth magnify the Lord. My spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." etc. and has the film character, Mary, curse God, use obscenities, and reject her child...
...only an individual can truly know, and simultaneously the one virtue that cannot be expressed simply, unlike so many cardboard cinema emotions. What really could be more phony than Richard Nixon's claim, straining for the sincerity he would never achieve, that "I am not a crook"? He who doth protest ... dispenses with any chance of conveying more than the ersatz...
...eternity, the fickle finger of dramatic fate (offstage) pushes the King of France off the ledge of mortality. Since the royal good time girl must needs become a regal career women, it's Cupid who gets the shaft; as No. 1 Courtier Berowne (Gregory Welch) exclaims woefully, "our wooing doth not end like an old play, Jack hath not Jill...