Word: matters
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...being one out, I was just looking to drive the ball to the outfield or hit it hard somewhere, since the infield was drawn in," Mager said. "[Yale starter Suddha Reddy] threw me an inside curveball, and I didn't get it that hard, but it was just a matter of putting the ball in play with two strikes...
...thanks to efficient parliamentary procedure, the resolution honoring Epps and another endorsing the annual "Take Back the Night" event were approved in a matter of minutes, and the council spent minimal time debating the four other items on the docket...
Despite some structural weaknesses, Englander has succeeded in revealing a vibrant collection of lives. Ending the book with "In This Way We Are Wise," a story treating a different subject matter and using a different style from that employed in the rest of the collection, Englander brings his readers into the violence of the present moment. While most of the stories contain middle-aged characters dealing with mid-life types of problems, this story follows Natan/Nathan, a young American living in Jerusalem who Narrowly avoids a nearby suicide bombing. The story, divided into numerous short segments, is told in choppy...
...circumstances" and is then ableto praise Hemingway's work because he has confinedthe man's entire project to a stylistic endeavor.Then there are critics like Chinua Achebe, theNigerian author of Things Fall Apart, whois comfortable addressing Hemingway's stylisticcontributions to literature even while expressinghis disinterest in Hemingway's subject matter,because Achebe feels the content of the work hasno particular relevance to him as an African.Finally, there are those whose distaste forHemingway as a person forces them pastdisinterest--which, of course, functions nearly aswell as absolute antipathy in terms of its effectson Hemingway's legacy--into resentment and anger:take...
...back room was full of young writers andtheir wives just home from Paris. They were alltelling stories about Hemingway, who first book hadjust appeared, and they were talking in what Iafterward came to recognize as the Hemingwaydialect-tough, matter-of-fact and confidential, Inthe middle of the evening one of them rose, tookoff his jacket and used it to show how he woulddominate a bull...