Word: kooks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...unpleasant thing with a case like this is it’s very easy to come out looking like a kook,” she says. Starobin made herself most vulnerable with her arguments against King’s literary talent, as judged by her oft-referenced Ivy League educated perspective. Hurd is particularly snarky when he remarks on this point. “[Starobin] also states that “BLOOD ETERNAL” , ‘which is the product of an Ivy League education, is not the work of an untutored hack...
...appeal seems obvious to those who have tried it. "My students look at this new technology with such awe and admiration," says Lee Kook Heon, a Ph.D candidate and teacher at South Korea's Sahmyook University who uses Wi-Fi to retrieve visual aids from the Internet during classes. "It's easy to use. I would prefer it over...
...first you have to get past the cover. It must be opened flat to be properly appreciated. A series of concentric circles form the center of a beautifully symmetric pattern. It resembles one of those mystical organization charts that some kook would meticulously work out, including the cycle of seasons, evolution, day into night, birth into death and all of human thought. Look more closely and you see it also involves Ware's particular motifs of stupidity, loneliness and the mundane...
...finished studying the signatures and walked past an emptying synagogue (Ringo’s shul, I joked) on the road back to the Tube station, I began to sense that what the great Rav Abraham Isaac Kook said of the Western Wall was also true of the world’s best-loved crosswalk: There are men with hearts of stone, and there are stones with hearts...
...stones acquire the hearts of men? At the risk of misinterpreting the famously incomprehensible Rav Kook, it seems to me that there is only one way: if men leave in stones their own hearts. Unlike the gorgeous mosques next door, the Western Wall is nothing to look at—it’s only holy because millions have wept there. And Abbey Road is just another tree-lined avenue in St. John’s Wood—cherished because thousands have had their picture taken in the crosswalk, because millions have looked into someone else?...