Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Faulkner's greatest service to his students came between the hours of 10 and 12 in the morning, five days a week, when he would sit in a tiny office and talk about the lonely task of writing with anyone who cared to drop in. The student who wanted to learn about himself found that a talk with Faulkner was as revealing as a session on the analyst's couch. "He reminded me of things I wanted to forget," said one senior. "You have to open up your insides and put them out on the table and examine...
...fight, he can sure get one with me.' I said, 'John, if you go in there with that attitude, he's gonna whip the pants off you. That's the only way people can ever beat you-by making you mad. And here you sit in my office, and you're mad already, and the campaign hasn't even started...
...square a bar debt. The Bird died before he could make good, but the Bohemia nevertheless plastered its walls with record jackets and went jazz. A favorite hangout of off-duty jazzmen, it also attracts the earnest and informed young jazz buffs in heavy spectacles and flamboyant shirts who sit for hours nursing drinks and intently following the music. After midnight, when the air is blue with smoke and the beer drinkers at the bar are vibrating with the music. visiting jazzmen are apt to move to the front of the room, pick up borrowed instruments and join...
...want to go through it again. But there's got to be a breakup in the old traditions of segregation, but you can't get to them overnight. I don't just want to go to school. I want equality. I want to be able to sit in the bus station just like white people. Maybe I've helped the breakup a little...
...explained that he "wanted to sit down in London and catch up on a lot of reading." He also mentioned the possibility of visiting in-laws...