Word: likes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...When, four decades ago...T.S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize in Literature, he seemed pure zenith, a colossus...fixed in the firmament like the sun and the moon," Ozick writes...
...Like many of Eliot's critics, Ozick says she is repelled by the poet's alleged anti-Semitism and his cruelty towards his wife. She takes particular offense at Eliot's book called The Idea of a Christian Society, in which he says that cultural unity can be achieved through a "Community of Christians...
...kind of like Kennedy falling," Koestenbaum says. "For instance, could Carter ever really fall? Only Eliot could fall...
IHAD a job last year sorting articles for a sociologist who was writing a book on New York City. My mission was to read newspaper articles and then put them in manila folders with labels like "Homelessness," "Ethnicity" and "Transportation." Although most of my folders had straightforward labels, one of them was mysteriously marked "NIMBY...
...Like an unpleasant alarm, the banging eventually wakes me up. Unlike an unpleasant alarm, the banging doesn't disappear with the flip of a switch. It keeps going...