Word: teas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...laws of nature dictate the beauty of crystals. Her life is reflected in the cold facets of her art. Early poems tell of her unhappy marriage to the Russian poet, Nikolai Gumilyov. A short poem dated 1911 ends: He couldn't stand bawling brats,/ raspberry jam with his tea,/ or womanish hysteria . . . And he was tied...
Students awaken at 6 a.m. and do their laundry and personal chores before sitting down to a breakfast of steamed bread, porridge and tea. Depending on weather and seasonal conditions, their days are about evenly divided between study sessions, field work and paramilitary drills. After supper there are group activities such as singing, dancing and cultural programs. Lights are out at 10 p.m. Men and women live separately. Asked if sex was ever a problem, one cadre laughed and said: "I haven't heard of such a thing...
Imagine a 1970s Heathcliff sitting in the study of Wuthering Heights, dressed in a country gentleman's tweeds. He has spent the morning keeping tab on his prosperous estate. Now, while his beautiful young wife and chil dren await him for 5 o'clock tea, he neatly taps on an electric typewriter his dark history of humiliation, vengeance and- since he is a Catholic convert-reform...
Plainly, Au. is a fool. He jabbers incessantly about the tea served at his interviews; his temperature is raised by the sight of nuns; he press-gangs the reader into exhausting patrols in search of useless facts. Basically, he is a garbage collector who has found "an occupation that serves the purposes of cleanliness but is regarded as dirty...
...always did when I wanted to talk to him about that passage. The worst time is early morning. Lyndon woke earlier and earlier in those last years-I really didn't like it much. But as early as 6:30 we would be up, having his tea and my coffee at a little table beside the window. It was such a pleasant time together, such a good way to start...