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...quotations take up so much space because Milton's most characteristically impressive sentences can fill an entire page. Milton is the Michael Jordan of English poetry. You can't believe it's possible for anyone to remain airborne for so long, and the breathtakingly bravura suspension culminates in a verbal slam-dunk like "So never more in hell than when in heaven" or "sweet reluctant amorous delay" or "Again transgresses, and again submits...
...matter how awful it gets. They never think of forming a community to rebel against the government guards, and only belatedly find a way to escape. Meirelles' camera style is plenty jazzy, with an agitated rhythm and the desaturated color scheme from Children of God (another dystopian English-language social parable from a Latin American director); but his characters are as flaccid as those in so many Euro-films we've seen at Cannes over the years. Their feet glued to the floor, they stand in place and wait for destiny to do its worst. It's enough to make...
...make it sound healthy, but are otherwise pretty useless. What about rest? Well, there’s sugar, sugar, some antioxidants and, if you’re lucky, more sugar. But to stay on the safe side, if you get overly jittery or nervous, or start having heart palpitations (English majors: that’s the feeling like your heart’s going to burst out of your chest), stop drinking the liquid energy. It’ll wind up doing more harm than good. And just like with that booze you wish you were downing, don?...
Menand said he had the philosophy of the new program in mind when he began planning “The Novel in Europe,” which he will be co-teaching with English professor Leah Price...
...fact that this openness can be a two-edged sword was underlined during a press conference held Tuesday by the State Council, the country's highest administrative body. Wang Zhenyao, a senior official at the Ministry of Civil Affairs, was asked by a reporter from the government's English-language newspaper, the China Daily, why so many schools had collapsed when government buildings in the same towns had not. According to state media, at least six schools were destroyed by the quake and its aftershocks; at one school, almost 900 eighth and ninth graders were believed to have been buried...