Word: toiles
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...there can be “more reliability in the poetic than the actual,” making poetry a source of strength through dire straits. Indeed, Heaney invokes T.S. Eliot’s conviction that “public activity is more of a drug than this solitary toil [of writing] that often seems so pointless...
...most of France, the traditional September rentrée represents the depressing end of vacation and a return to toil for millions of workers, students and politicians. For the nation's publishing industry, by contrast, the September rentrée littéraire is a period of excitement and expectation, holding the promise of success and sales for some, acclaim and awards for others. This year has brought a new high of activity, with the first of nearly 700 new titles already flooding bookshops - and taxing the capacity of the book-buying public to absorb them all. Literary pride...
...Armani plans to open 20 stores in China over the next three years. Move over Pierre Cardin. - Lauren Goldstein MEN'S WEAR Savile Row Redux One might think that closing off Savile Row for a party and fashion show would raise a few eyebrows among the tailors who toil there. But the Savile Row residents are used to the antics of Ozwald Boateng, the tailor who opened a shop at the end of their street in 1995 - and went out of business five years later. Boateng's return was the cause of the big bash. "It's fun," said...
...sport as merely an individual. Never again will I play in the name of a school, be it Harvard University, Deerfield Academy or Wandell Elementary School. For the amateur athlete, one of the greatest motivations is to play for something bigger than one’s self, to toil for something that dwarfs a single individual’s importance. My opportunity to do this in the athletic sphere largely ends today...
...bourgeoisie, one of the things that we didn't want to do anymore was cook." But, says White, "I think we're moving away from that. Increasingly, African Americans are entering cooking schools and becoming interested in food from a creative point of view, rather than food simply as toil. The pendulum is swinging back...