Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...answers, he'd heard the great chorus of bells ringing especially for him from the Danilov Monastery, a spiritual island in the embrace of Moscow. There he had summoned all his stagecraft to read lines from Alexander Solzhenitsyn: "The secret of the pacifying Russian countryside . . . is in the churches...
Everywhere the irrepressible Randi goes, usually in a flowing tweed cape and a brown, broad-brimmed hat, bewildering events occur: spoons bend, watches stop, wallets disappear, pencils move mysteriously, minds are read. And everywhere, Randi's message is the same: the remarkable happenings are simply magic tricks, not psychic or out-of-this-world phenomena...
...Good meeting you all," I said, my face flush, as I quickly left. I had read Adams and so had nothing to say. My sole experience with a "great books" program offered an ironic glimpse of what it might have yielded in the regular curriculum. Skipped or unreflective reading would mean a passed-over education with a vengeance...
...here lay the basis of our education's demanding nature as well. In teaching us approaches, our courses and tutorials act with the faith that, once inspired, we will continue to read and think on our own. Indeed, they assume that we are now properly equipped to begin the endless process of educating ourselves...
Ironically enough, in March of her freshman year she received a slip of paper which read "Kirkland House." Guess what happened when she went to her first Kirkland party: "That was the second shock," Anderson says...