Word: exaltedness
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JUST before I went to see Seneca's Oedipus last night, while I was having dinner, I heard about a fire that broke out early yesterday morning in the home of some friends of mine. Everybody made it out safely except for the cat, Porky, who was that rare animal...
One gentleman is recalled by a classmate to have been a Jew who dressed up in preppy clothes and "snuck" into a Final Club, from which exalted position he was constantly threatened with exposure by old high school friends. Now he reports he's a member of the John Birch...
Dickey approaches teaching with a combination of energy and detachment. His creative-writing students are advised to tune into their recalcitrant unconsciousness, or the "celestial wireless" as Dickey calls it. He recently hammered away at his modern-poetry students for most of an hour about Emily Dickinson's obsession...
The inefficiencies that will be hardest to surmount are those that do nobody any good. Making sense out of the jumble of local governments will require a decades-long struggle against that most powerful of vested interests, inertia. Correcting the inefficiencies of workers in the service trades?repairmen, waiters, barbers...
JUST at this critical Point, the Mentor and Chief Ally of the Scribbler's Club, identifying Label sewn over the bright yellow Lining of his turned Coat of Office, conferred with the Membership. The Mentor advised, his suggestive little Beard jiggling, seizure of the Domed Citadel, residence in the City...