Word: endless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just seven years, David Owen has effected what many refer to, only half jokingly, as the Winthrop Renaissance. Taking over a House distressingly like its "jock" stereotype, he has quietly but successfully created a diverse and exciting student community. Owen's concern for undergraduates and their activities seems endless. His ability to remember the names and problems of each man in the House is legendary. Weekly teas, presided over by the Master and his vivacious wife, Louise, have become crowded discussion sessions that invariably last past their scheduled closing time. The Master's hand is evident everywhere...
...learning about sanitation. Associating with Siel was not so much an exercise in learning as an experience of life itself. There was much of the working plumber about him, but what chiefly remains is an image of Siel quoting--one might almost say spewing forth--an endless flood of didactic poetry with such delight that one could not fail to feel its enchantment...
Higgs soon received prestigious civil liberties awards in New York and Los Angeles--and death threats from the sheriff's office in Clarksdale, Mississippi. His parents began to receive endless insults from town folk and economic intimidation from local grocers. Finally, early last year, the Jackson District Attorney told him to expect "unlimited jailings" upon returning to the state...
Seventy-four lines of this is too much. The central image of the poem is an old sewage pipe through which he and his childhood companions once crawled. If Lewis had pared down the poem to focus on this symbol and eliminated the endless verbiage about cold snow, matted leaves, flat grasses, maple hedges, gray stems, tattered bark, and yellow sun, "March, Returned From Home" could have been a good poem. As it stands, it is sprawling, chaotic, and almost incomprehensible...
Just as an unwary reader is about to decide that Pim is man in the hands of a tyrant deity, Bom himself embarks on a chilling step-by-step proof of the existence of some sort of God above them both. He remembers (or projects) an endless series of couplings like his with Pim and then a vast, ordered switching of partners as each Pim crawls on to find and torment a new Bom, and each Bom waits to be found and tormented by a new Pim. This elaborate pattern of exchanged cruelty, Bom cagily reasons, suggests a supervisory being...