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Robert Bly has said that the prose poem is a symptom of a disintegrating society. For Wright, it may indicate he sees his world dissolving; more likely, he uses the prose poem to stretch she limits of his poetry. By dodging conventional line breaks and assuming a super-charged prosaic style, the poet legitimately, and often successfully, experiments with his work's content and form...
According to the journal report, all 14 patients who benefited from dixogen had a symptom called a third heart sound, an abnormal noise that occurs when the heart strikes the chest wall. The third heart sound, which Johnson says determines who should receive digitalis therapy, is an extra "dub" heard after the normal "lub-dub" sound that the heart makes when heard through a stethoscope...
...relatively tiny group of radicals, whose public support was insignificant. To that most vocal hard core of dissenters, the issue was not the wisdom of a particular American commitment but the validity of American foreign policy in general and indeed of American society. They saw the war as a symptom of an evil, corrupt, militaristic capitalist system. They treated the Viet Cong as a progressive movement, North Viet Nam as a put-upon, heroic revolutionary country and Communism as the wave of the future in Indochina, if not in the entire developing world. They were outraged by our incursion into...
...following the advice of the anti-détente zealots, we would almost surely be undermined by the Watergate bloodhounds, who would treat every challenge to the Soviet Union as a maneuver by which their hated quarry, Nixon, was trying to escape them. I replied rather heatedly: "It is a symptom of what is happening to our country that it could even be suggested that the U.S. would alert its forces for domestic reasons...
...Harvard's application decline may be a symptom of anticipated drops in the nation's teenage population, particularly in Massachusetts and New York, the two states from which Harvard draws the most applicants...