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...Transient Tales...
COCA, with a transient, fluctuating membership, is typical of many groups on campus. Other groups such as the Peace Alliance, no longer exist, but this year, COCA's membership has grown...
...early 1920s, D.H. Lawrence wrote, "I place my immortality in the dark sap of life, stream of eternal blood. And as for my mind and spirit-this book, for example, all my books-I toss them out like so much transient tree-blossom and foliaged leaves, on to the winds of time." A funny thing happened next. The winds of time caught these words and much of the novel in which they appear and blew them into hiding for roughly 50 years. Between the day he abandoned Mr. Noon in midsentence in 1922 and his death...
Instead in his new Lords Ladies and Gentlemen. Daniel reveals some of the lighter moments of his extensive, eventful career from his meetings with kings to his hobnobbing with presidents. The book can justly be criticized for an excess of fluttery, for dwelling on the transient rather than the substantial Daniel doesn't care. He says there has been a "surfeit" of overly serious books. "The world is not waiting for my opinions," he adds. "But, I've met a lot of interesting people and in the process have acquired humorous stories--some revealing and some devastating. I just didn...
...meant to speak of the geological span of the creation and to imply a sense of time at the opposite extreme to the rapid movement of the water, so that the life of man is presented as a kind of middle term between the geologically permanent and the merely transient...