Word: threads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...card on each one, with a photograph of the student on it. His comments range from "very good" to "turkey." His own job, he says, "is to turn people on, to make them want to learn." He is wearing, as he speaks, a blue necktie ornamented in gold thread with the words Waffle House...
...Communist worldwide production of about 53 million bbl. per day. "It is absurd to talk of a glut," says one West German oilman. "So long as any one of a number of oil-producing nations can create shortages, the world's energy supply hangs by an exceedingly thin thread...
...thread of Burgess's moral dilemma runs through all episodes and discussions in the book. He sometimes treats the issue overtly as when the intellectuals and churchmen who wander through Toomey's narrative subject the doctrine of free will and the homosexual's place in the kingdom of God to ponderous scrutiny. How can homosexuals and a conception of God coexist in harmony? This is the question the many homosexuals Toomey encounters--antagonists and lovers alike--are continually fretting over. And yet, Burgess's most absorbing and ponderous moral statements do not come from such often-babbling and never conclusive...
Until then, they don't understand why what they're doing right now is important. They have trouble identifying the main thread. The professor knows the whole story already; he's been anticipating the punchline since the first lecture. The way he retraces his path is by no means the way you would go exploring it for the first time. The students and the professor are by necessity operating at completely different intellectual levels and neither has the freedom to move closer to the other...
...failures that came before. They are interested in the paintings artists create, not--with the rare exception of a Leonardo da Vinci--in the sketches discarded in the process. Viewers want to see polished statues and coronation gowns, not chips of marbk or a seamstress's needle and thread...