Word: revealing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case: "My son, you have strayed from the paths of righteousness. Our ways must part forever. You are dismissed." Now the private man has been mercilessly unwreathed in his startlingly venomous diaries, whose publication he arranged out of what one critic described as an impulse toward "posthumous suicide." They reveal him as a splenetic, mean-spirited misanthrope who, by his own admission, "loathed the common people" and lacked "all ordinary human kindliness...
...author that his posturings obscured. With remarkable discipline, O'Hara stayed on the wagon for the last 16 years of his life. He could be generous to friends and competitors (he extravagantly called Hemingway "the outstanding author since the death of Shakespeare"); his letters to his daughter reveal a tenderness that few outsiders ever suspected...
...figures do reveal a trend of sorts. As Henry F. Colt '46, director of University development, said earlier this week, foundations and corporate gifts to the University were off substantially, causing much of Harvard's drop...
Writing with these verbal properties in mind involves a form of communication that goes beyond language. Words can reveal knowledge of bury it inside their physical structure. They can "talk" to you or dangle silently but visibly on the page. Often someone will discuss a text by saying "this is just literature" when their implication is "you speak to say nothing...
WHEN THE approaching Senate Intelleigence Committee hearings reveal the names of the individuals and organizations at the University whose mail was illegally opened and read by the Central Intelligence Agency, there will probably be few surprises behind the official pronouncements of indignation...