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...only way to describe it is pandemonium--sheer pandemonium...
...nickname "Flail": On FOP, I was nicknamed Flail. I was told by the person who nicknamed me that it means goddess in his language, but he's from Long Island. He told me it was the sheer essence of the soul. Flail is fine: I've accepted it now into my faith. I called him Lousy and he called me flail, and no one calls him Lousy...
...final preparations for Easterns isn't a time in our taper when we swim our fatest," sophomore Karl Sheer said...
...many, that kind of sympathy with the enemy could seem the worst kind of two-facedness or moral relativism: not so much turning the other cheek as sheer turncoatism. And by trying to see both sides of every argument, Greene contrived to make enemies on both sides of every fence: Catholics and agnostics, McCarthyites and communists, all found his conviction wanting. A would-be Christian who admits to putting people before principles gets accused of sentimentality by skeptics and of hypocrisy by believers. Those issues found their focus in Greene's unshakable loyalty to his old boss in British intelligence...
...also gave us Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht, Howard Moss, Amy Clampitt, Howard Nemerov. But as a craftsman he exceeded them all-in the thrill of the unexpected, anyway. Indeed, more than any American poet ever (with the possible exception of Marianne Moore), he conveyed an infectious, exuberant joy in sheer building...