Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hoagland does not burden the reader with a false sense of wonder or an exaggerated sense of adventure. He conveys what he learns as something that a middle-aged man should already know: months of wandering in a hard place make one sick, lonely, itchy and tired. "I was weary," he writes, "of the whole African calliope - that nagging, pulsing musical din that has been reverberating strongly without letup for thousands of years before you arrive and will be continuing without any respite for sickness or fatigue long after you have left the earth...
...argues that Americans overuse the word decadent, without knowing what they mean by it. They use it to describe a $50 bottle of Margaux, a three-hour soak in the tub, a 40-hour-a-week television habit, the crowds that tell the suicide to jump, a snort of cocaine. And yet Americans mean something by it. The notion of decadence is a vehicle that carries all kinds of strange and overripe cargo-but a confusing variety of meanings does not add up to meaninglessness. Decadence, like pornography (both have something of the same fragrance), may be hard to define...
...While we all know Harvard is richer than B.U., many of the issues are the same," Knox said, adding union organizers at Harvard are enthusiastic about the progress made by the local...
...Practical Criticism," Richards developed a theory of poetic meaning and understanding based on poem critiques by students who did not know whose work they were discussing...
Kyriazis said he expects at least 70 per cent of the freshmen to participate again in the program. "About a quarter of the students have brothers or sisters here or think they already know what is going on," he added...