Word: stream
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...postcards picture it, the Atlantic Ocean off Miami is a land lubber's delight where only the antics of frolicking porpoises disturb the serenity of the Gulf Stream. But there are days, and plenty of them, when the east wind rises and turns the 160-mile stretch between Miami and Nassau into one of the meanest, choppiest patches of water anywhere. Then small-craft warnings go up, and cautious skippers stick to sailing olives in a cozy yacht-club...
...national need in Nigeria and Ghana was for a sprinkling of highly specialized experts and scholars, and a broad stream of less differentiated graduates with general degrees to man the civil service and to teach in schools...
From then until his death he found time to publish more than a dozen books, both fiction and nonfiction, besides a steady stream of shorter pieces in addition to his regular Globe articles. A year ago he wrote for the CRIMSON a long first-hand account of the 1906 production of Agamemnon given in Greek at the Harvard Stadium...
Where have I seen before, against the wind, These bright virgins, robed and bare of bonnet, Flowing with music of their strange quick tongue And adventuring with delicate paces by the stream,- Myself a child, old suddenly at the scream From one of the white throats which it hid among...
Perhaps because he distrusted the senses so much, Lewis was better at lecturing than creating. He thought that the novelist should write down what he sees, not try to dredge up the mind's messy thoughts through stream-of-consciousness. His own novels (Tarr, The Apes of God), while wildly funny in places, are all surface and little depth. So many characters resembled recognizable people that Lewis was always being threatened for libel...