Word: reminded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...temples and his heart swelled with simile"). The most egregious trier of patience is, surely, the Author Who Has Read Proust. He will send his hero into the kitchen to mix a drink, say, but sure as Remembrance of Things Past comes in seven volumes, the ice tray wall remind the hero of another, earlier ice tray, half-shrouded in the mists of memory, and it will be 40 pages before the reader gets his vicarious taste of Scotch...
...that something more than this was intended in the choice of that word "victim," one gets the impression that one is to feel sympathy for Hiss, that he was guilty only of providing a stepping stone for the career of an ambitious man. Lest it be forgotten, let me remind you that Alger Hiss was granted all due process of law and was proved a perjurer, proved beyond a shadow of a doubt, proved by evidence that cannot be refuted despite the frantic clutching at the straw of the Hiss typewriter. In large measure Mr. Nixon was responsible for that...
...finally remind these merchants that our actions are not a destruction of light, but a vindication of right. God willing, Christmas as we know it will not perish from this Square...
...Small-town middle-aged Massachusetts family of Life With Father dad, harried mom, newly-wed daughter, boobish son-in-law. Nothing too new there, admittedly, but then mom gets pregnant. And dad gets the gags. Mem: Aren't you excited? happy? [or words to that effect] Doesn't it remind you of a poem? Dad (de-spondently): I shot an arrow into...
More than any other Negro leader, King has sought to remind those in the movement against discrimination and segregation that they must always fight with just means, that they must never let their discontent turn into hatred. "Hate is always tragic," says King. "It distorts the personality and scars the soul. The way of non-violence is vital because it is the only way to reestablish the broken community This is the beauty of nonviolence. It says you can struggle without hating; you can wage war without violence...