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...individuals, have met with major or minor misfortunes from beginning too young, and one of the worst consequences of these new social forces is that, just as there once was pressure on young people to retain their virginity until they got married, now there is pressure on them to possess experience, at whatever cost...
...deprecated his poetry because of his "imprecise" romanticism. But poetry is an art of masterpieces; a life's work of competent versifying has not the staying power of a single poem that lodges in the race's memory. Keats wrote four or five such poems, which possess that special magic without which a poem is merely verse. Although current poetic taste leans to the sinewy complexities of Donne and Eliot and Auden, Keats probably draws and has drawn more young readers to poetry than any other writer except Shakespeare...
Thus the Lions face the Crimson this morning armed with their potent weapon of weakness. Probably unfortunately for the New Yorkers, they do possess certain elements of strength. Jon Newman, their goalie, has been superb in his three performances to date despite the lack of support from his teammates...
...idea is to make children hunger for learning, to want to possess it. Teacher Ashton-Warner discarded orthodox books, charts and lesson plans in favor of "the moving currents of children's interests," whatever they might be, in "the hot prison of the moment." In the formal sense, she says, "I teach style, and only style...
...Name. French kings longed to possess Languedoc. Innocent III loathed it as the center of the strange Cathar religion, the last great Christian heresy (before the Reformation) to shake the power of Rome. Laying siege to Béziers, the French came in God's name, seeking heretics. But once inside, they slaughtered until the red crosses on their white tunics were lost in blood; in 51 hours, they put to death the city's entire population...