Word: forthings
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...their own academic agenda. They rather presumptuously ask the writers to concur with their theories, theories often extraneous to the writers' works. Pearlman and Henderson also obscure the writers' views by floating quotes into the text and tagging them with "we agreed," never revealing who originally set the statement forth. Their Gilliganesque emphasis on connectedness is at best distracting, and at worst, dishonest. Pearlman dedicates sections of her mini-essays to explicating her own theories on space in women's literature. Interviewing Erdrich on her rich fictions of Native American families on the Western Plains, Pearlman slights the more complex...
...fall the Snake River sockeye was added to the nation's endangered- species list, and this spring the National Marine Fisheries Service is expected to take similar action on behalf of most races of Chinook. These actions pave the way for an extensive salmon-recovery plan to be put forth by the fisheries service in September that will affect not only commercial and sport fishing throughout a four-state area but also mining, farming and other industries that depend on the river and the power it generates. "There is no better barometer of the health of the Northwest than salmon...
...tune," "distorted" and "intrinsically flawed" is simply incorrect. The bells have been tuned and are in harmony with the Eastern scale--which places them at odds with our Western eight-tone scale. This is likely the source of Turk's misconceptions about the sounds of the bells peal forth...
...Turk feels that our 15 minutes of semi-tonal music a week is too "intrusive" for her tastes, we can only wonder what she would have us do about those musicians in the Square who send forth often poorly executed renditions of Debussy, Ornette Coleman, and even Schoenberg? Should these musicians not be allowed to play...
...POINT IS that the presidential Bush could never utter the same worlds that came forth from the burning bush...