Word: taught
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite 21, Camus married Simone Hie, a beautiful young woman and a drug addict. Within a year the couple were estranged, and Camus began his lifelong exploration of "the tender and reserved friendship of women." He became an actor-director in a workers' theater, a profession that taught him the value of public postures, and he joined the Communist Party, with which he would have his bitterest wrangles...
...delicate, discrete act after another. Small wonder that writers, sitting alone and laboriously putting words to gether, respond sympathetically to both putouts and errors. In writing and base ball, the risk of embarrassment is high and the distance between competence and true distinction enormous. Most American children are taught English, and kids on the sand lot learn baseball's vocabulary of moves. The hard part is turning such knowledge into...
Born in Scotland, Coglin moved to Malaysia where he lived for eight years before moving to Kenya. Coincidentally, his mother taught swimming at a local golf club to a group of youngsters which included Coglin's future teammate, Tim Maximoff...
...select group of freshman writers deserve the chance to exercise and develop their own literary talents. But the issue is not simply one of academic freedom. I question the validity of distinctions between the skills taught in craft of fiction the modes of expression are more open, if often less direct. Still, clarity is respected, compression admired, diction honored. If the implication of Richard Marius' decision is that style can't be adequately learned in the practice of fiction writing. I am sure even Strunk and White would disagree with...
...people are so old when they get to be grandparents," laments Birdy. If Birdy is Wharton's grandchild, it was worth waiting for. Wharton has taught it to fly as well as any canary could teach its young...