Word: reade
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...such was the scene at Sanders Theater last night, as more than 1000 people gathered to hear Murray. Reeve, and other well-known performers read In the Company of Poets, a new poetry anthology by Lowell Professor of the Humanities William Alfred...
...addition to Reeve and Murray, actress Stockard Channing, writer Brian Doyle Murray, actress Kathryn Walker and and actress Frances West read from the anthology...
...very surprised that The Crimson at first seemed to have decided not to take an editorial stance on an issue as important to the campus as the recent debate over the restoration of the ROTC program. I diligently read the editorial page during the first few days after the initial Council vote, and found that only one column took a position on this controversial issue. However, I finally realized that I was simply looking in the wrong place. I should have looked no further than the front page...
...feel worse before you convalesce. But you do not refuse the operation." That typical bit of Thatcher rhetoric is not the kind of metaphor that comes out of the Peggy Noonan poetical-presidential-puffery machine. Nor is it sheep-in- wolf's-clothing mock toughness on the order of "Read my lips, no new taxes." If leadership means leading people where they don't at first want to go, Margaret Thatcher is a leader; Ronald Reagan was not, nor is George Bush...
Just so. In a single letter, Lawrence could ring all the changes between boasting and self-abnegation. To a confidante who had read an early version of Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Lawrence noted, "The story I have to tell is one of the most splendid ever given a man for writing." He also downplayed his own participation in that story, adding, "I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself...