Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wore horn-rimmed spectacles, a two-buttoned jacket that was too tight across the front, and the intense look of a Freshman on advanced standing. "Professor," said he to the distinguished philosopher who had just finished addressing a group of two-score students, "Professor, I often sit up late at night thinking and I find that I'm able to visualize my universe only up to a certain point and after that," he continued, with his glasses in his hand, "I just cannot envision what is beyond. Sir, can you tell me what is out there...
...majority of Western fiction writers. However, the vast amounts of space he devotes to his characters' thinking adds little to an understanding of these personalities or of their environment. Guthrie's utilization of thought-process reminds one of the old men he describes in the opening sentence who "would sit and smoke and let a word fall and pause to hear the echoes of it as if they owned all time to speak their little pieces...
...fourth-through-eighth-graders in New Jersey's Caldwell Township school, half are now working for various L.C.A. merit buttons. Some members have become such avid readers that one mother complained: "I can't get my children to bed any more. They want to sit up and read...
Broker Bay has other substantial holdings, including a controlling interest (282,000 out of the 1,200,000 shares) in American Export Lines, where she is chairman of the executive committee. "After my husband's death," she says, "I couldn't sit back and cut coupons. I like a man's world." She also finds time to care for three adopted Norwegian children, try new recipes (out of 50 cookbooks), follow the fortunes of a stable of racing thoroughbreds, sail a 12-meter racing yacht, oversee a score of philanthropies (brain tumor, cerebral palsy, other medical research...
...most telling religious experience: "a presence more personal, more certain, more real, than that of a human being, though inaccessible to the senses and imagination." It came when she was idly repeating to herself some lines from the English metaphysical Poet George Herbert: "'You must sit down,' says Love, 'and taste my meat.' So I did sit...