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...lesson succeeds appropriately through an act of language. Wiggins gets the young man to write his thoughts in a journal, nine pages of semiliterate dialect that should not work in 20th century fiction but does because Gaines delivers a written equivalent of authentic oral expression, not a romanticized rendering of black English...
...target for opponents. At a health-care forum last Friday in Tampa, Florida, a visibly tired Hillary listened quietly while witnesses made their cases for various reforms. She usually made her comments, such as they were, in the form of a question, much as Justices do when they hear oral arguments at the Supreme Court. Meanwhile the other 11 Hillarys were probably working back in Washington...
...senior tutor of the accused student asks the student to respond to the charges in a written statement oral discussion with the advisor...
Gioia never lets you forget just how unaccountable to the poetry establishment he feels. "As an impromptu translation in a French II oral exam," he writes, Robert Bly's translation of Mallarme "might eke out a passing grade, but as poetry in English, it fails the most rudimentary test...it doesn't even sound like the language of a native speaker." Throughout these essays, Dana Gioia names names. Much of his observation is as perceptive as his criticism is scathing. He recognizes that "American poetry now belongs to a subculture." And to escape that status, poetry writers must somehow appeal...
Pritchard compiled the councillors' anonymous written and oral comments as well as their numerical ratings of the manager on a variety of issues. Ratings were on a scale of one to five, with one being the highest...