Word: thinking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally, the author succeeds in his major purpose of making his audience understand the bull fight, its violence, bloodshed, and death. The bull is not the hopeless underdog most American think it is. In Lea's books, the bull becomes the brave animal whose fighting spirit is the prime example of valor. Man must muster all his skill, artistry, bravery, and strength to conquer the animal, and he does not always win. In painting the skillful technique which brings the bull to his death, Lea creates a picture of violence and beauty--a rare combination that makes bull fighting...
January 7. "I am the wretchedest of the wretched . . . Nobody will miss [Little Nell] like I shall ... Old wounds bleed afresh when I only think of the way of [killing her]; what the actual doing it will be, God knows...
...sold her some baby clothes for her new great-grandson a few months ago, was grateful that she had remembered the day. Watching her leave, a $24-a-week stenographer who had looked wistfully at an $80 dress and also come away without buying, sighed: "I don't think they want people like me to come into their old store...
...brusquely showed him the door. Three years later, Dickens married Kate Hogarth, whom he completely dominated. Kate bore him ten children and he adored them all, but he gave her small thanks. "My wife," he wrote resentfully to a friend, "is quite well again, after favoring me (I think I could have dispensed with the compliment) with No. 10 . . . I have some idea ... of interceding with the Bishop of London to have a little service in St. Paul's beseeching that I may be considered to have done enough towards my country's population...
...rate highest on a poll conducted among the members of the six big undergraduate chemistry courses. The poll, devised by Professor Kistiakowsky, chairman of the department, questions students as to the personality and scientific ability of their section man as well as to the time they think he contributes to teaching. The prizes, each amounting to slightly under a hundred dollars, will come from a fund given by a Visiting Committee of the Board of Overseers...