Word: hating
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with Serge, all the others want to as well. They grab for him physically and spiritually hoping that if only he will agree to live with them they will be saved from their miserable lives. The two old aunts, who must sleep in the same bed even though they hate each other, add their pleas to the chorus. Jealousy, lust, hatred, infidelity, frustration--all swirl around Serge as he tries to reconcile his incestuous love with his obligation to his sick father...
This is vintage Moliere, though a Moliere scholar once wrote that The Misanthrope is poorly named. Alceste does not hate mankind, goes this interpretation. Rather, he cannot resolve his romantic idealism with the realities of life. Accordingly, the play should be called The Romantic...
...Fear, hate and exploitation are themes that haunt Harry Crews. His fiction (Car, A Feast of Snakes) is peopled by grotesque and tragic victims of the rural South. As his autobiography, A Childhood, reveals, Crews earned his vision. He is, to use his own term, a "grit," a poor white brought up on a Depression dirt farm in Georgia, fearful of landlords, Government, floods, of life itself. Maturity has brought courage, but the shudders of childhood remain. So does the gallery of odd personae who enliven his latest book of personal essays, Blood and Grits...
...hate to bring up a sore subject, but I think everyone realizes that thesis jokes are already long overdue. I mean some seniors have already finished writing 100 pages. But if you're one of those, like my roommate, who hasn't started writing yet, don't use your thesis as an excuse for missing all the exciting activities Harvard has to offer in early March...
Please don't hate me," she cried as she ran from the room. All she had done was accidentally spill a glass of water on the old, brown carpeting in the office. It was the spontaneous cry of a small, 14-year-old girl going through a crisis. She was a runaway...