Word: interruptible
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Barring any violence which might interrupt theprogram, Steiner said he had received positivefeedback from enough institutions he consideredbeneficial to Blacks that Harvard could send itsfirst interns this summer...
...course, only to the reader) to tell the tale. Why does Davies do this? Well, it's kind of clever and amusing at first. And the use of these two characters could be forgiven if they weren't used in such an amateurish way. Throughout the novel they interrupt every once in a while to explain the most recent occurrence in the life of Francis Cornish. "If you wish to talk of Chance', said the Daimon Maimas. 'But you and I know how deceptive the concept of Chance--the wholly random, inexplicable happening--is as a final explanation of anything...
...also regards Cuba as "far more just" than most of the world's nations because it supposedly has eliminated poverty. He explains that he did not press Castro about such sensitive subjects as discrimination against religious believers in government hiring and in universities because "I didn't want to interrupt him with questions that would put him on the defensive...
...want to interrupt when you're busy. But I've been thinking I don't have to put up with all the garbage my father says. I know they're not true, but they really hurt. They hurt because no matter how I try to say that he's not my father, I can't say that to myself. He's my father, and he's the worst enemy I ever...
...limitations, whether fantasy sometimes infringes a bit much on reality. Perhaps even the owners sometimes allow this distinction to blur. Says Rudolf: "At least two or three times a month someone will take his clothes off on a platform and maybe jerk off. But I'm not going to interrupt an act in the middle. It's art on stage. And that's untouchable...