Word: lande
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...again. Democracy is still alive and well. Good for us. Pappy Washington would be proud. But before we adorn every street corner with the stars and stripes, perhaps we should take a further peek at what self-government really means in the various nooks and crannies of this great land...
...turn the wheels of the democratic process in our glorious land. From cockfighting to criminal attorneys to titillating lawn trimming to dead candidates, our famous republican experiment rolls on. I'm not saying we shouldn't be proud of ourselves in these days following the mid-term election. A little civic solemnity is most certainly appropriate as we observe another peaceful changing of the guard. But, if you consider the people of Missouri, who took the time to debate and then vote on a ban of bear wrestling, you have to wonder if King George was really so bad after...
...alumni connection is great," Chu said,adding that at senior recruiting sessions, GleeClub graduates have helped him to land importantjob interviews...
With this allusion to his own work, perhaps Heaney is implying that after these thirty years of "digging," some ground has finally been opened, some introspective conclusion reached; yet the fact that this land may be "stretchmarked" and "raw," sexually mauled and completely violated, seems to imply that there is something inherently wrong, even obscene in this final revelation. Does this mean that the newly and rarely anthologized works contained in Opened Ground are detrimental to the essential oeuvre of Heaney's work, previously established within a mythical, symbolic, and imagistic framework? Hardly. Rather, Heaney is saying with his title...
Perhaps it is writ deep into the psyche of our native land, but Americans are unaccustomed to gastronomic rules. Proper etiquette is dictated by the all-powerful edicts of Miss Manners: the ubiquitous "no elbows on the table," the less common, unwieldy knife switch-over between cutting and chewing and the taboo against soup-slurping. But etiquette in American dining is about propriety and little more. According to the owner and chef of Cafe Japonaise, things are different in Japan. Sushi neophytes need more than a willingness to embrace the strangeness of raw fish. Eating sushi is a matter...