Word: pound
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With others, you might have to pound the table and have a few drinks. The secret is to get the other guy as close to the corner as you can without pushing him against the wall." That first evening, Keating decided that the soft approach would be best with Bassett...
...interjecting "Yes, yes!" or by finishing his sentences for him? Do you try to do more than one thing at a time-work out a problem while someone is talking to you, or dictate to a secretary while driving a car? Do you often clench your fist or pound the desk for emphasis? Do you feel guilty if you are idle for a few days or even hours...
...volume megabiography of Henry James, Leon Edel avoided pedantry and trivia while still painting a detailed picture. Realizing the significance of this achievement, Edel explained his principles in a book called Literary Biography. His conclusions now stand as an apt indictment of Joseph Blotner's eight-and-a-half pound Faulkner: "the writing of a literary life would be nothing but a kind of indecent curiosity, and an invasion of privacy, were it not that it seeks always to illuminate the mysterious and magical process of creation." Blotner fails this test; he does not disengage the essence of Faulkner...
...bicycle was not developed until the last century. Will Baron von Drais de Sauerbach ever go down in history with Henry Ford? God knows he deserves to. The Baron's 1816 bicycle was a little crude, but it developed quickly. By 1884 it had evolved into a 21.5 pound cruising machine a point beyond which little improvement has been possible (today most bikes still weigh over 30 pounds...
...however, is that the people whom Faulkner referred to as "academic gumshoes" have asserted their clammy hold upon him. In graduate classrooms across the country, students now will be required to read the book. Sad news, that, not only for Faulkner and his readers but for such writers as Pound, Eliot and Wallace Stevens, whose "definitive" biographies have yet to fall upon...