Word: reread
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dream of Ebenezer Scrooge: volumes shaped like rabbits, turtles-everything but books; "relevant" accounts of crime and strife; the latest data on the making of babies-but little about the meaning of love. Still, along the shelves a few items always glitter-works that will be read and reread long after the backs and covers are coated with crayon, spilled milk, tears and time...
...events between 1920 and 1975. Anyone reading the book is aware of these changes and for a modern audience the concluding chapter oversimplifies and repeats what is provided in the preface. Flexner's aim is to provide history rather than record modern developments. Nevertheless, it may be valuable to reread the concluding chapter fifteen years from now to see if our perspectives have changed...
...read and reread Henry Grunwald's Essay, "The Morning After the Fourth ..." [July 14]. I can't think of anything the U.S. needs more on its birthday than a renewed respect for the power of reason, sweet reason...
...copy of the first story I ever filed from Viet Nam. It was dated July 8, 1948. In that year, the Viet Cong were called the Viet Minh, and they were fighting against Vietnamese government troops, French soldiers, foreign legionnaires and black mercenaries from Senegal and Morocco. When I reread that story, my first and last days in Viet Nam seemed somehow indistinguishable. Excerpt: "The French hoped to pull large non-Communist nationalist resistance units away from the Communist-controlled Viet Minh. But instead of winning nationalists away from Ho Chi Minh's camp, they are driving them...
Burn all high school yearbooks, tell loathsome lies to old roommates who telephone after 20 years, on pain of black despair avoid sentimental journeys to childhood beer gardens, and never, never reread Look Homeward, Angel. But here comes Science Fiction Writer Ray Bradbury's magical boyhood novel Dandelion Wine, republished in a new edition after 19 years. Is its magic powerful enough to make it young again, or is its neck corded and scrawny in the collar of that new dust jacket...