Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...state swallow...
Having lustily enjoyed the ill-gotten geese, pigs and sheep, the poets must swallow an unpleasant truth: moral purity is hard to maintain in an immoral world. To their credit, the writers accept and understand this lesson. Feelings of superiority begin to evaporate. The conclave that opened in smugness draws to a close with increasing humility. The participants realize that art must somehow protect its integrity while mingling in the mud and muddle of life...
Think about killing yourself--think, if you were depressed horribly, if you were so full of pain you didn't want to live, could you do it? Pull the razor across your wrists? Swallow the fistful of pills? Maybe, some do. But there's that one last moment, and all of a sudden it's very tough, because you remember that there've been a lot of nice things, too. Even for Bobby Sands there'd been some nice things--a son, parents who loved him, a pint of Guinness now and again, a cause. But he killed himself...
...That loss was pretty hard to swallow because we knew we were the better team." Morris said. "They came in here kind of cocky this time, but we took care of that pretty quickly...
...several more people recognize Nader and there are more whispers. Nader looks straight ahead and walks through the metal detector. It seems strange watching Ralph Nader walk through a metal detector, like seeing the Pope having his fingerprints taken. Ralph Nader hijack an airplane? The idea is hard to swallow...