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Churchill's genius was that he knew how to hector. "He turned out words and phrases in tumultuous torrent and inexhaustible abundance - inspiring, exhorting, moving, persuading, cajoling, thundering, bullying, abusing and enraging," writes Cannadine. Churchill's collected speeches run to 4 million words, including the great phrases "blood, toil, tears and sweat" and "their finest hour." His off-the-cuff gems were well-rehearsed, but they rallied Britain in its darkest hour...
...last month, dozens of student employees have been working without pay. A flawed computer system has left some students who toil in Harvard’s libraries, museums and research labs unpaid for untold hours of work. Even worse, the problems with the new PeopleSoft payroll system have been left to fester as administrators and computer consultants try to figure out what went wrong...
...being good at many things, but excelling at none of them. We are confident in our daily living as an investment with dependably high returns, but we have little imagination for some fabulous treasure that may lie buried close at hand. And happiness? It becomes a feat of toil and complication, something acquired through much deduction, derivation and explication, instead of something instinctive that we simply feel...
...don’t, however, live our lives in a vacuum. In truth, the story of my life begins on Ông Ngoai’s farm and in those alleys where my mother learned about survival. Poverty, toil and war—these are the things that shaped her survivalist mentality. This mentality remains a constant point of contention between us. When I took a late leave of absence last semester, she ridiculed the notion of “taking time...
...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...