Word: greats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cared a great deal how I left New York. I was so happy with the reaction to my leaving. Around town, people universally wished me good luck. Baseball is the only sport in which this happens 'cause you're with the people every day and twice on Sunday. It's a very personal thing...
...entire class. But something turned around after those first few weeks, something I would have to attribute to Diana Thomson's warmth and encouragement as a friend as well as a teacher. My papers started to reflect me as a person and as a writer and I sensed a great deal more feeling and confidence with what I was doing in fiction. I gained more and more control as I went through the term, while continually receiving constructive criticism from Mrs. Thomson concerning my ideas and my writing skills. I know a consensus of the class would agree...
...Marius's criticism of the expository skills of fiction students can be dealt with through the current method of screening applicants to fiction Expos for evidence of previously established competence in these skills. I would willingly concede that reading short stories on the side also helped me a great deal, but Mrs. Thomson actively encouraged this anyway. I believe critical essays on these other works as would be required by Expos 18 are unnecessary and cannot but detract from the student's opportunity to develop his or her own writing style...
...vote did not just involve the Scot's love of their homeland, which explains the ho-hum reaction. Devolution is a complicated economic issue as well as a political football in Great Britain. This vote was tangled in legislative complications and party machinations and can not be viewed as a clear mandate one way or the other on the question of either devolution or Scottish independence...
...jazz musician who rose through the tradition and then (many would say) abandoned it to form the Headhunters, a prototypical jazz-funk fusion group. The Headhunters brought Hancock mass appeal of a kind never before experienced by a jazz-associated musician, but he also took the brunt of a great backlash of criticism from the jazz community which was directed against musicians who deserted the more serious music that they had played so well...