Word: reads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Judging by some of the books to be read--Jesus as Mother, Lethal Love: Reading Biblical Love Stories and Poetics of Gender--concentrators are in for a unique academic experience...
...HOMELESS" IS an adjective, not a noun. Insistence on this point is not merely a case of the galloping semantics, because the way people use this ugly euphemism reveals some ugly attitudes. We read that a shelter has beds for "20 homeless." At least "three homeless" died in Cambridge this winter. Bureaucrats discuss "the homeless problem" and patiently explain why it is somebody else...
...room for a few days before I leafed through its pages. When I did, I couldn't believe I was holding a volume published while the last of my mistresses was alive--this was my link to Madame du Barry herself. It is quite possible that du Barry read the pamphlet herself after completing a jail sentence spitefully imposed by her archenemy Queen Marie Antoinette...
...first reaction to it was that it was funny. Then I thought about what it implies and what the attitude means. Still, people read too much into it," he said. "I think most people thought it was a good thing. To put social values and to pass moral judgment puts it in a different context," the Leverett house senior added...
...Read About My Death In Vogue Magazine has been extended several times since the play premiered in 1985, and the theater now says the show will play "indefinitely." No matter how long the company can keep performing, it probably won't be long enough to render the show obsolete. As Sargent's character, the one writing the play as it unfolds, confesses toward the end: "I just wanted to change the entire cultural system." With such a mighty goal as this, the play will have to run a long time indeed...