Word: reader
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...report draws the reader to the inner cities, where there exists "a persistent, large and growing underclass." In words which closely echo Kerner's assessment of Black ghettos in the 1960's, the inner cities are described as places of "crime, drug addiction, dependency on welfare and resentment against society in general and white society in particular...
...Hustler ran a spoof that portrayed the Rev. Jerry Falwell as a drunkard whose first sexual encounter was a tryst with his mother in an outhouse. Outrageous? Yes. Funny? Hardly. Plausible? No. But just in case, small print at the foot of the page warned the less discerning reader, "Ad parody -- not to be taken seriously...
...Reader's teams have bucked expectations before, however. The Knights beat dominant Harvard in the 1986 ECAC semis...
...played a good first period, but they got a good bounce on their goal," Clarkson Coach Cap Reader said...
When you read a book, what matters in the largest sense is not what you read. The information becomes outdated, the writer converted, the reader cold and dead. What matters is holding a book, seeing them line up one against the other, realizing that they are heavy, like concrete, like stone. What matters is realizing that books are not only the monuments of the past, but that they are monuments of us, that they will take our living, breathing place, and that they will assume our space when we have gone...