Word: spokenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Alan's final, crazed musings, spoken at a time when he is an official Xixi tribesman, are about art, music, culture, myth and their relationship to the Xixi, and the quiche at Chez Jean. His experiences in the Qatab jungles have changed him and skewed his thinking, but he is still only six months out of Harvard and his dream appears to be bringing his Xixi wife back to grad school in Cambridge with him. Although most of Native Intelligence takes place in Latin America it is really mostly about Harvard; its point has to do with setting forth...
Kilbridge's ability to lead the school is also limited by his repeated disingenuousness. The fall 1975 report of a University panel investigating the GSD's decision not to rehire an out-spoken assistant professor in 1969 admonishes the dean several times for being unhelpful. At one point, this report admits that "many" of the panel's five members have a "lingering doubt" whether Kilbridge was "as candid and forthcoming as he might have been." This side of the dean also emerged in 1972 after the Corporation dismissed grievances against him. Instead of seeking reconciliation with the senior professors...
Harvard offers four sections of English E throughout the year, each section concentrating on a specific area of English usage. The section discussing traffic laws is the oral section, and the focus is on the development of fluency in spoken English. Other sections stress writing and reading...
Mathews has spoken of "simplifying" the Buckley amendment guidelines and checking for "over-regulation," Peck said...
...unsurpassed at times; he makes the reader feel like an eavesdropper. O'Hara does not just record speech patterns--his role is a vital one, he controls even the most intimate conversations to further plot and character development. Some of his short stories rely almost exclusively on the spoken word. In "Two Turtledoves," the brief story of two lovers meeting in a deserted New Jersey bar on Christmas Eve, he employs this technique masterfully. O'Hara describes the lovers completely through the conversation of the bartender and his friend, and turns what could have been predictable into an unusual...