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...nothing wrong with taking some time there for a coffee and doughnut, or with bringing my work with me. I cannot speak for "Harvard Parent," but I find the enforced isolation of any office rather forbidding at times, especially when the rows of books in front of me remind me of the thesis which I have put aside while I fulfill my teaching responsibilities. Tommy's can actually help my concentration; it may not be the clean, well-lighted place of my dreams, but on a sunny. Thursday afternoon it can be rather pleasant indeed, with its homincss, its, unique...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Teaching Fellows | 3/2/1984 | See Source »

...Does a work of art point outwards by mirroring, or does it stand apart from the outside world by reflecting--or inventing--human qualities in their purest form? In brief explanations interspersed through the narrative. Donoso insists that his novel is artifice and that a book should not remind its audiences of its daily existence. But he clearly depicts the turmoil produced in Chile and other clearly South American countries by an export illustrates the conflict between a foreign investors' elite and an entrenched local elite descended from colonial Spaniards. He attacks his topic with both satire and allegory...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Art of Artifice | 2/24/1984 | See Source »

...posters all over the Union and the Houses, and we've gone directly to the coaches of the teams who will be staying here and asked them to remind their athletes to sign up," she said...

Author: By Mary F. Cliff, | Title: Vacation Meal Plan May Fold Unless More Students Sign-Up | 2/24/1984 | See Source »

...teacher in the Odessa school system, I would like to remind you that the Greeks, who held scholars in the highest esteem, also prized athletes. I have never had an A-student jock who did not place English, math, science and history above athletic honors, and I have had more A-type jocks than those scraping to pass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Feb. 20, 1984 | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

...populating his scene in the first chapter, the author takes pains to point out that his creations are impalpable figures of fancy. He asks his readers to "accept what I write as an artifice. By intruding myself from time to time on the story I simply wish to remind the reader of his distance from the material of this novel, which I would like to claim as something entirely my own, for exhibit or display, never offered for the reader to confuse with his own experience . . . The synthesis produced by reading this novel-I allude to that ground where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Imaginative Enchantments | 2/20/1984 | See Source »

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