Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spoken like a true All-American...
Restic: Well, Mike, I'll tell you. You see, I'm a little concerned with my grades this term. I'm not taking this season pass/fail, you know, but for a letter grade. Everyone I've spoken to has said that the hourly, which I aced, only counts for a third of the final grade, while the final evaluation counts for two-thirds...
Frederick W. Clapp, president of the Yale Club of Boston, said yesterday most Yale alumni he has spoken with think Gray would make a good president, but that they doubt she will...
Those who are not "born again" Christians often associate fundamentalism with belief in unusual happenings, such as the so-called speaking in tongues. This is justified to some extent. Donovan believes she has "spoken in tongues," that is, she has received the gift of the Holy Spirit from God and has spoken in an unrecognizable language of praise. This experience happened to her at the end of her junior year at Harvard, she says. "You feel it welling up inside of you. God is giving you perfect words to say. It's astoundingly beautiful...
...hard to connect the author of this passage with the soft-spoken, philosophical man who came to Boston last week. Fast looks on the hardships of his life with a curiously detached perspective, pointing out very reasonably that they were important to his writing. In the Communist Party Fast once found an inspiring movement and struggle, a brave, historic fight for freedom. Even when he entered prison he went as a writer, a man whose purpose was to build up a store of experience. He told his wife at the time that it would be a shame for a writer...