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...master's few unoriginal remarks Virginia Woolf, rereading Nicholas Nickleby in 1939, noted."Dickens owes his astonishing power to make characters alive to the fact that he saw them as a child sees them." And in his 1924 Surrealist Manifesto, André Breton declared, "Childhood is the nearest to true life...
...realized he must be among the leaders. A few precision wedges out of the sand had kept his score to 64 with the rigorous par-four 18th still to play. Passing the leader board, he noticed that his name was at the top--five shots ahead of his nearest competitors. This was nothing new, so he shrugged. He had two days remaining in which to lose the tournament...
...four-woman squad totaled just 109 points, outdistancing its nearest rivals--Boston University and Tufts-by 24 and 30 points, respectively. Captain Rony Sebok skippered the A division crew to a first-place finish, while Meredith Stelling and Liz Miller in the B boat cruised to a third-place finish over the 18-race slate...
...combat this amorphous attack, Harvard Coach Bob Scalise will have sweeper Deb Field cover one of the UConn forwards and institute the weak side shift which the squad used earlier in the season. In this defense, the two halfbacks nearest to the ball pressure the dribbler while the other two midfielders cover the other Huskie halfbacks...
...International Stylists, came straight out of his infatuation with American machine culture. Le Corbusier derived a good deal of his architectural syntax from the "functional" shapes of American grain elevators, docks and airplanes. And when European modernists in the early '20s dreamed up their Wolkenkratzers (cloud scratchers), the nearest the German language could come to the alien Yankee concept of a skyscraper, critics accused the modernists of deserting their native traditions and caving in to transatlantic cultural imperialism...