Word: likes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learn in becoming a House Master and wife. We found that Mozart piped into the living room had a deadening influence. The musicians in the group just listened intently and the others found the atmosphere heavy going. Now we've settled on Bix Beiderick, whom everyone seems to like...
...After playing hopscotch, Elsa and I liked to pick Japanese beetles off the rosebuds in the yard. They crawled on our fingers like a symbol of our half-formed feelings...
...Professor MacLeish's third lecture on poetry that saved him. Like the Renaissance discovering the Greeks, like Goethe discovering Shakespeare, like the nineteenth century discovering nature, Harrison discovered Oriental poetry. He had run across the cryptic, ordered verses of the haiku before in Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums; but since he had read the novel for sex (it was disappointing) their beauty had escaped him. Now, however, he was fascinated with the idea of three line verses which did not require grammar, meter, rhyme, or even logical progression. As Harrison told his roommate after the lecture, "All you gotta...
...that. I put that in there in order to give a hint of the Renaissance balled tradition without losing the basic Oriental structure--while still talking about Cambridge. Didn't you like that line about spike heels? I mean the way it brings you in touch with reality...
Fuller likened the act of making close pitches look like strikes to a lawyer's advocacy--the catcher is simply "presenting a persuasive argument." But, he contended, a football player pretending to be hurt is committing a moral wrong, and engaging in "true deception...