Word: speakes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kermode, whose series will deal with the senses of narrative, will speak on "Carnal and Spiritual Senses" at 4 p.m. in Emerson...
...stories in Night-Side concerns exactly this problem of subjectivity. In "The Translation," a middle-aged American visiting a Balkan country is assigned a young man as a translator. Through the translator, the American meets a young woman with whom he instantly falls in love. Although they speak different languages, he and the woman are able to communicate perfectly through the translator, who seems to bring out the best in both of them. Suddenly, for no reason, the old translator is replaced by a repulsive, fat man who speaks in broken English. At their next meeting, the American finds...
...cover so many disciplines and so loosely employ scientific jargon that most specialists find his work inaccessible or unintelligible. As Isaac Asimov points out in his forward to the book, it is this very writing style which enables Velikovsky to convince laymen that he actually knows enough astronomy to speak with authority...
...been a rink rat since I was six. I was captain of the Deerfield Academy squad in 1975. I was not much of a star, and had plenty of trouble putting the puck in the net from my center ice position. But nonetheless I had my day, so to speak...
Carrillo arrived here last night. He will spend the day at Harvard visiting classes and attending functions planned by the Center for European Studies, which invited him to speak here earlier this fall, Peter M. Lange, associate professor of Government, said yesterday...