Word: spoonful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Edgar Lee Masters' classic novel Spoon River Anthology first appeared in 1915, it had the popular advantage of topicality but was freighted with scandal. Masters had compiled reminiscences portraying all the virtues and vices of small town life during the Civil War and Reconstruction and some of the tales depicted actual people from the town where he grew...
...writers such as Barbara DeAngelis, author of the New York Times #1 bestselling book, Are You the One For Me?, if not emotionally secure, certainly very rich. Subtitled "Knowing Who's Wrong and Deciding Who's Right," this volume belittles the complexity of human relations by claiming it can spoon feed love's secrets to anyone with the $5.95 cover charge. First of all, after reading her works one can't help but feel that a lot of the material is self-evident, unless, for instance, someone believes communication and affection is bad for a relationship...
...such low standards that it would have him for a member. Abraham Lincoln in 1860 entered polite America's imagination cartooned as an ungainly ape, an uncouth backwoods savage. In the 1932 election campaign, even some liberals appraised Franklin Roosevelt as a feckless mama's boy from the silver-spoon Hudson River gentry, a man without character or principles. "An amiable Boy Scout," wrote Walter Lippman...
When he was young, he sensed a false view of life being preached by British conservatism, and he turned his considerable wit against it; as he grew older, he sniffed out totalitarian impulses emanating from the left and opposed them too. Spoon-fed the doctrines of literary Modernism--to be profound is to be obscure, the highest art is only to be understood by a cadre of initiates--Amis made rude noises. Coming across the claim that T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land is "the century's most influential poem" and "a supremely important poem," he snapped, "Importance...
Another student carried a sign reading "Hey Newt Get your slimy hands off my diploma." still another waved a banner saying, "Weld, not all of us were born with a silver spoon in out mouths," in reference to Massachusetts Gov. William F. weld '66, also a Republican...