Word: guess
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...asks a sensible question: Why is George trying to guess about a woman he's never met? Ron tears into him -it isn't guessing, it's experiencing, and George's experience of the woman is simply different from Carol...
Even the Bronx native and lifetime New Yorker sitting next to me started rooting for the Olde Towne Team after the grounded Spaceman exited. New Yorkers, are like that, I guess, possessed with an urge to hero worship, but without the patience to develop tested team loyalty. (Another companion at the game, also a Big Apple native, confessed that his childhood adulation of the Detroit TIgers had ended completely when A1 Kaline retired...
Like most analysts of Irish culture, Dr. Murphy (a Scot) assumes that Irish expression was shaped by nearly 800 years of English domination. "You get this very commonly in a defeated people where the new master never gets a straight answer," he said. "I would guess that doublespeak had something to do with the fact that the Irish family and community could not tolerate open hostility. It always had to be suppressed, and using double language enabled them to do it. For some, it is an enjoyable game. But for those with a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia, there...
...that through performance should prove this department is interested in doing more than analyzing notes in a score. Titles of the pieces range from the traditional trio for clarinet, violin and piano to one called "Tuesdays are always yellow, aren't they?" for harp and it's-anyone's-guess-what-else. Although Harvard does not have the most illustrious name as far as graduate music schools go the composition professors are outstanding and their students are a highly select and qualified crew...
Maude, in Rohmer's movie My Night at Maud's appeals to me because she lives out a seemingly unattainable fantasy. She's a physician, pretty jaded, about 35, who picks up men whenever she feels like it. I guess Rohmer made her jaded to excuse her jaded to excuse her waywardness. The discouraging (and conventional) catch to her (unconventional) way of life is that she's unhappy...