Word: reads
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Wise, who became interested in animal rights in the 1970s when he read the book Animal Liberation by Peter Singer, believes animal rights law is an increasingly popular field...
...that wasn't enough, I saw something that really chilled my bones: two guys in their twenties working an intersection on Beverly. The signs around their necks read, "English Majors, will read poetry for food." No doubt actors out of work, they were a grim reminder that the rising economic tide has not lifted all boats, and that no college-degree holder should be over-confident about post-graduate successes. Not everyone, after all, makes it in Hollywood...
Wise, who became interested in animal rights in the 1970s when he read the book Animal Liberation by Peter Singer, said he believes animal rights law is an increasingly popular field...
Ending social promotion is part of an attempt to restore some value to the shredded America high school diploma, which cannot now assure anyone that the bearer can even read or write. DAN HAGEN Charleston...
...feel lucky having spent 17 years in the company of CLIFTON ("Kip") FADIMAN at the Book-of-the-Month Club, learning from him how to read. Bearing witness to his reports--he wrote one on every book he read for the club--and his discussions at the monthly meeting of the judges was like taking the world's best creative writing course. He was a humane critic, seldom unkind, with few foibles. (I once did hear him say, "Faulkner makes me giggle.") The books he loved most were those that bore two Fadiman standards: lucidity and a mind at work...