Word: tilled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thought if I'd admitted what was original in others I'd have lost my own little melody." He is like a Salieri who has taught himself, through a lifetime of small disappointments, to accept that he will never be a Mozart. It is not till the end of this Sunday that he realizes the importance of following his own little melody. He puts aside his sofa still life, sets out a fresh blank canvas and ponders his resolution to start anew...
...getting to know a place: "You have to drum a town into your head with your feet. You have to walk till you're lost...
...during the Cultural Revolution, "I was kicked out," he says, and sent to the countryside for physical labor. Hsiao was cultivating grain and rice with other intellectuals from about 5:30 a.m. till 6 or 8 p.m. for almost seven years. Since there was no reading or writing allowed, manual labor was his only activity...
...civility cannot be purchased from them on any terms; they seem to think that it is incompatible with freedom." By the time Frances Trollope came to write The Domestic Manners of the Americans (1832), she was scandalized by, among other things, "the frightful manner of feeding with their knives, till the whole blade seemed to enter the mouth, and the still more frightful manner of cleaning the teeth afterwards with a pocket knife." Charles Dickens, in his American Notes, deplored the national pastime of chewing tobacco, spitting toward spittoons, and often missing-"odious practices . . . most offensive and sickening . . . an exaggeration...
...Kristin's doing a line job," Mabrey says. "She had a big spot to till, and she's filled...