Word: rereadings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...poetry, it too often loses its force in what Aldous Huxley called Aiken's "coloured mists" of sound. Reread today, Aiken seems a classic case of the experimental writer whose experiment is outmoded. He finds himself disconcertingly immured in some Smithsonian Institution of prose when he had aspired to the National Gallery, and viewed with respect only by those who remember that he was a pioneer in territory that has now been settled...
...doubts that religion was intellectually respectable. I revolted against the emotionalism of Negro religion, the shouting and the stamping. I didn't understand it and it embarrassed me." At Morehouse, King searched for "some intellectual basis for a social philosophy." He read and reread Thoreau's essay, Civil Disobedience, concluded that the ministry was the only framework in which he could properly position his growing ideas on social protest...
...professor at a Protestant divinity school recalls that he was handed a rose to contemplate after taking his dose of LSD. "As I looked at the rose it began to glow," he said, "and suddenly I felt that I understood the rose. A few days later when I reread the Biblical account of Moses and the burning bush it suddenly made sense...
...Mary Kincaid. an Ann Arbor housewife, it seemed a shame that little boys all around were quitting French classes out of boredom. She herself had minored in French at the University of Michigan, practiced it in Paris, and developed a passion for French literature. Not long ago, she reread Victor Hugo's Les Misérables and observed, "Hugo has more adventure than Davy Crockett"-a thought that led readily to the idea of putting Hugo into a comic strip...
Freidel was so upset by the reports that he hired a grader with his own money to reread the bluebooks. He also read many of them himself. According to Freidel, one of the course assistants had made "several errors in judgment," which necessitated the changes in grades...