Word: reminds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...scholar hugged a black woman, was cheered by some unemployed youths and pledged to work for an end to fox hunting while cuddling a baby fox. His deputy, Denis Healey, 65, was just as busy. In York he sat down at a piano to play a funeral march-"to remind everyone where Thatcher is taking us"-and then took up the chorus of an old American barroom tune, Hard Hearted Hannah, "a girl from Savannah who pours water on a drowning man." Quipped Healey: "That is just what she is doing to the British economy...
...clear. The A's go to people who wake us up, who talk to us, who are sparkling and different and bright. (The B's go to Radcliffe girls who memorize the text and quote it verbatim, in perfectly looped letters with circles over the o's.) Not, I remind you, necessarily to people who have locked themselves in Lamont for a week and seminared and outlined and underlined and typed their notes and argued out all of Leibniz's fallacies with their mothers. They often get A's too, but, as Mr. Carswell sagely observed, this takes too long...
Later, in an interview at the institute of Politics, which he is visiting for three days, Giscard said an official housing the function had to remind him that young people make career decisions in the United States much later than in France...
Only the players seen through the blue gauze remind the audience of the play's links with Hamlet and with tragedy--when the down-at-the-heel band of players doubles as Denmark's familiar royal family. The troup's leader (Kevin Jennings) confronts the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern with a one-upmanship that never flags. As both the king and the head Player. Jennings plays with vigor and consistency the role of crafty manipulator, impressing upon the audience Rosencrantz and Guildenstern's powerlessness to control their fate...
...course, this happens only occasionally, in the heat of battle or Big Dan's bar or Charlestown or the Alpha Tau Omega house, where boys were boys. But gang rape does not need to recur frequently to remind men of their own peculiar frailty. And that reminder brings terror, not the terror of the victim, to be sure, but one as benumbing in its way: that of acknowledging one's natural potential for violence and destruction. Rape need not be involved. Was not that you, so many years ago, standing on the sidelines while that other...