Word: letting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...love only when she can decide his fault, which she so clearly sees, is extraneous to that love. She despairs when her father comes at last to see himself as he is, then agrees with her simple mother that the vanished hero dwelt only in the mind and let it be. These are two great women...
...Let me tell you about Harold, the red-eyed bowtied young man mentioned earlier. Harold was tossed out of Adams House two weeks before Summer School. He is writing his thesis on Jack Kerouac. He wanders down Massachusetts Avenue in the infant hours with that burdened shuffle of troubled genius. He is typical of the night-crawlers, repressed, rebellious, and vaguely disturbed...
Mark Twain's classic rules for fiction, reflected Morris in a rare burst of pedantry, included: "Employ a simple and straightforward style," "Eschew surplusage," and "Accomplish something and arrive somewhere." Why, then, did English courses of every variety let James creep in through the trap door under the lectern? Why, on the other hand, did most courses on American literature ignore Thomas Wolfe...
...riding down in the taxicab, I said to myself just now, I says, ahhh, Dan gave me a damn good break . . . and I came off with $50,000 . . . Unfortunately, I piddled it away through my own stupidity, and my wife's influence, etc. And also the whole thing. Let me tell you the whole thing in gist...
...spark firing (standard ignition gradually weakens as engine speed increases), lengthened the piston strokes by five-eighths of an inch, rebored the cylinders and boosted the compression ratio from 8 to 1 to 12 to 1. At the heart of the retooled engines were specially ground camshafts that let the engines wind up to 5,800 r.p.m...