Word: hear
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hated the abstraction I represented, of those who knew some history and would never forgive the foreign powers for their part in it, but also of some who were too shrewd and wise to have been taken in by the charade of the day, and--oh, yes, I could hear them--of those who loved me. They all pronounced the same word...
...card; Johnson could never have left home without it." Or, more seriously, and perhaps more typical of the sort of casual turn of phrase that irritatingly litters Mallon's text: when remarking on a sentence from the adolescent diaries of the German psychologist, Karen Horney, Mallon writes, "One can hear the girl turning into the doctor right at the comma...
...Scare) that hides in the rear racks at Out-of-Town News and has a circulation which competes neck and neck with The Crimson's. Thus the great virtue, of this predictably superb sampling of his column, Uncivil Liberties: you actually get to read the pieces, rather than hear about them second-hand from a friend who managed to get a look at the Lamont copy before it was filched by an impoverished revolutionary...
...Steffie hear about déjà vu on he radio, (Jack said...
...want to hear this...