Word: oneself
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...Ugly: The philosophy behind this one is that most people are trying to make themselves look more attractive, so why not be truly original and try to make oneself look ugly? After all, beauty is only skin deep, but ugliness can be rotten to the core...
...tough too, and the challenge must be met during adolescence. There is, of course, the need to develop perfection of technique. Add to that the care of one's body, the avoidance of drugs and drink, rent payment and roommate control. Most important, however, is the reinvention of oneself as an alluring theatrical image that rewards the eye -- and blinds it to the charms of the next performer in line...
...burning an American flag while she was an antiwar demonstrator during the '60s." The rumor is totally unsubstantiated, but that has not stopped zealots from spreading it. Replied Mrs. Dukakis: "It's untrue, unfounded, and there is no picture." Said Dukakis, in obvious frustration and fractured syntax: "I find oneself in the position of denying nonexistent facts...
...some tomatoes over there, or perhaps a row of asters. People planting their first plots tend to be too practical, determined to labor over beans and carrots that the local supermarket provides just as well and far more cheaply (exceptions: peas and raspberries). It is undeniably fun to feed oneself from one's harvest, but remember that gardening is not supposed to be practical. If, on the other hand, you yearn to grow carrots (which do grow like weeds), then plant carrots. Plant whatever tastes good, whatever pleases you. Plant lawn grass. Plant garlic. Plant fig trees...
...very skillful reduction of [the poem]," said Helen H. Vendler, Kenan Professor of English and American Literature and Language. "The essence of it is kept and one feels the interplay between one's dead friends and oneself and that is what the poem is about...