Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more of the panels to go up to a courtroom. There would then be a selection process with questions designed to separate people who might not be able to serve on the jury of a trial and hear the evidence with an unbiased ear. I sat and read the newspaper for a long time before my panel was called, and my excitement began to build...
Solentiname was a traditional peasant community on an archipelago off the coast of Nicaragua. Poet-priest Ernesto Cardenal, who became Minister of Culture after the Sandinistas came to power, went to Solentiname to teach the peasants to read. A friend of Cardenal also began a poetry workshop, teaching the previously illiterate peasants to write their own poetry, Gullette said...
Many of the poems Gullette read glorify the peasants' revolution, such as one titled "Tyrant, Fear the Poet." Gullette said the peasants also wrote about prison and freedom...
WHEN I came back to campus and read in my coursebook that Music 30, "Jazz History for Non-Majors," had been magically transformed into a Core Curriculum course, I was elated...
Several people who attended the lecture praised Merrill's ability to read poetry as well as write it. Vernon L. Shetley, assistant professor of English at Wellesley College, praised Merrill as "the best reader of poetry that there...