Word: lente
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...that your speech is high-brow without noting that you are actually uttering sovereign metaphors for the emptiness of modern life. Thus, is The Cocktail Party's pro-found human philosophy slipped beneath the rug of Eliot's drawing room drama. Eliot's thought is incipient, but it is lent a certain credibility through its slippery resistance to categories of religion, modernism or classicism...
...distant pile of sticks, say, in a field--without actually knowing what it was. The hyperrealist Chuck Close has gone one better than that. In 1971 he painted the face of his father-in-law Nat Rose. The huge, minutely detailed likeness was bought by a Maryland collector who lent it to the Whitney Museum in New York City. There it was seen by an ophthalmologist who, not sure whether he was intruding or not, got a message to Close. Did he know that one eye of the man in the painting showed signs of carcinoma? No, Close didn...
...driver, he picked up a male at The Inn at Harvard. The man asked the driver to take him to the Arlington Police station. Once at the police station, the suspect asked the driver if he could borrow $100 to bail out his friend from jail. The cab driver lent the suspect $100. The suspect returned from the police station and told the driver to take him to Peabody Terrace. The suspect left the cab at Peabody Terrace and never returned...
Brandt adds that being in an all-femaleclassroom lent a sense of community to the day today classroom experience...
That's in the future. Right now I'm following the quitter's credo, taking one day at a time. Should I lapse, I have my excuse all planned. Lent will not be lost. As one of my TF's suggested last term when I told him of my intention to quit, if I indulge in cigarettes during Lent, I'll simply be giving up the pleasure of self-denial...