Word: seale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...later Auden, in fact, swam in light verse like a seal in surf: "Paul Valery/ Earned a meager salary/ Walking through the Bois/ Observing his Moi." When people called him frivolous, Auden replied, "When you are labeled 'serious' in the U.S., you are expected to wear a long face all the time. I don't agree." He was fond of adding in defense of craftsmanship, "Every high C accurately struck demolishes the theory that we are irresponsible puppets of fate and charm...
Tufts's only points came on a 27-yard pass from Randy Rundle to John Connors. The score came near the end of the game when the Crimson's second team defense was seeing action. An onside kick attempt by Tufts failed and Harvard ran out the clock to seal the victory...
...with a broad extent of small granite cobbles. Like everything else here, they are constantly under construction. Piles of stone chunks and contractors' wooden headquarters, with stovepipes, like gypsy wagons, are randomly scattered. Construction--and re-construction--are still as emblematic as the rearing bear of the city's seal, on policemen's, trainmen's, garbagemen's patches, on the copper address plates of lawyers and doctors, on countless cheap souvenirs...
Eight years later, Ulbricht faced a different kind of crisis. Since the end of the war, more than 3.6 million East German citizens had fled westward, attracted by higher living standards and greater freedom. Ulbricht acted to stop this flood on Aug. 13, 1961, by ordering his soldiers to seal off East Berlin with the infamous 27-mile Berlin Wall. It was cruelly effective: the mass exodus was stopped. Over the years police have killed and injured at least 168 East Germans trying to escape past the wall...
Papik discovers that whites are also baleful. He sees naked greed in an organized seal slaughter, intolerable boredom in a job at an automated fish-processing plant, and true lunacy in the fact that white oil explorers live by their clocks. The whites "are so crazy," he concludes that "they believe they alone make sense." In a glorious scene, he fashions a knife out of his own freezing excrement. When it is rock hard, he kills two huskies with it and builds a sled of pelts and bones. Then he triumphantly carries his family off to a free life...