Word: forthing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Crooks nods absently. He is surviving and not thinking a great deal about humanity and sadness, although the two work their way through his life constantly, without his having to call them forth. He has a new wife and child to think about--she was the Dudley House Senior Tutor's secretary, and he married her one day four years ago during lunch hour--and the Summer School to look after. When he comes right down to it perhaps the thing Crooks likes best about the Summer School is its open admissions policy, the way it lets anyone who wants...
...Percy's view: the transformational grammarians, bickering over esoteric aspects of an arcane theory, have lost sight of the forest for the trees. And they've lost sight of language, too--the proper concerns of linguists have been parceled out to specialists in psychology, anthropology, theology and so forth. Percy feels he is the man to bring order to all this mess...
...done't make a great deal of sense. Harper's magazine last year printed a long and comprehensive article that compared America's 50 major cities according to a series of criteria that made perfectly good sense-things having to do with education, income levels, population density, and so forth-and New Orieans not only came out near the bottom but also, judging from the Harper's critreris, had very litle to recommend itself. Forced to defend the city, I find my mind funning toward gravestones of white flaky plaster covered by intruding vines, but usually I find it hard...
...winning way of putting over his occasional aphorisms, such as. "Wherever you come near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense." Or the notion put forth in a couple of passages near the start of Shaw's book-length preface to Misalliance, which Wilder, having the Stage Manager attribute it to "one of those European fellas," distills into an epigram. "Every child born into the world is nature's attempt to make a perfect human being...
...people." It was James who made the key observation in their young lives, namely that "no one could sing Elton's songs like he could." So he gave them ?20 a week, plus a little more to replace his presumptive star's ripped jeans, and sent him forth to conquer first Scotland, then the world...