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...autobiographical acquaintance with the Negro evangelical scene. But Amen Corner, a 14-year-old first play, scuttles edgewise through this milieu like a crab, evading dramatic life more successfully than it confronts its characters. Baldwin has yet to learn that drama is really a verb masquerading as a noun...
...forshadows an even closer relationship between Harvard and Radcliffe, saying "the hour has come for us to cease talk about the College as a singular noun...and to speak rather about the Colleges, for surely Radcliffe has now become an inescapable part of our concern...
...meaning "to blow smoke upon (a person)." Words change over the centuries and no doubt it is now possible to funk an inanamiate object. Other meanings of funk (from the Latin, fumigare) are "to smoke (a pipe) 1704," and hence, "to cause an offensive smell." We have also the noun meaning "a strong smell or stink...
...backyard. 'Where do you live?' and 'What are you?' are progressively less sensible questions. I live on earth at present, and I don't know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing-a noun...
...hundred nations, the name Hoover suggests not J. Edgar or Herbert but a vacuum cleaner, and some people use it as a verb as well as a noun. Ohio's 55-year-old Hoover Co., the world's oldest and biggest vacuum-cleaner maker, nowadays is concerned with more than merely cleaning carpets. While vacuums will bring half of this year's expected worldwide sales of $200 million (up 21% from last year), Hoover plants from Australia to Wales have also begun to turn out electric can openers, hair dryers, heaters, washing machines, floor polishers. Driving this...