Word: heard
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...only thing I heard was that he had gotten into some kind of trouble and would not be teaching the course," Kugel said...
...heard other people from other parts of Ireland tell it and I realized that it was a sort of a folk myth about madness and the attitudes to madness and since More Bread Or I'll Appear is a book about genetic madness and how a family copes with it, I thought that she [the girl in the story] was an appropriate figure. She doesn't appear in the book, [except as] a ghostly figure that haunts them...an image that the children all have of this madness that they know is their lot in life...
...society chooses to pay them to do what they do because they are a symbol of knowledge and tradition, regardless of how radical their theories might be. Really, it's only a kind of effete entertainment or, at best, private passion, for them. The truest words I ever heard in an English class were that the purpose of the English department is to help you increase your pleasure in reading. That's really it. Any claims that literary theory plays some ethical role form a chorus of pure wind-baggery which wilfully ignores political realities. We don't pay cagers...
...society chooses to pay them to do what they do because they are a symbol of knowledge and tradition, regardless of how radical their theories might be. Really, it's only a kind of effete entertainment or, at best, private passion, for them. The truest words I ever heard in an English class were that the purpose of the English department is to help you increase your pleasure in reading. That's really it. Any claims that literary theory plays some ethical role form a chorus of pure wind-baggery which willfully ignores political realities. We don't pay cagers...
However, other mellower ballads like her personal favorite "Kiss The Sky" weren't as successful. Her obviously strong singing was drowned out by the screams of her fans and also the cavernous arena. In a smaller venue, her varied style would have been heard and appreciated more thoroughly...