Word: true
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...older I get the more the old adage comes true about how you've got to be strong up the middle," Nahigian said in Briggs Cage the other...
...ethnographies, let alone novels about native Americans, have been written by women. Rarer still are those that focus on women. But Hill does not offer a fresh perspective. By being true to the Mahto, a male-dominated society, Hill tells her tale through primarily male eyes. Her women, though they win sympathy and admiration, are secondary characters. They are either treated as such by their men or, if not, two out of three times they end up dying. Their deaths--Wanagi's and Ahbleza's wives die--only strengthen the men's resolve to be pure and unselfish; neither takes...
...still linear, a matter of performing one delicate, discrete act after another. Small wonder that writers, sitting alone and laboriously putting words to gether, respond sympathetically to both putouts and errors. In writing and base ball, the risk of embarrassment is high and the distance between competence and true distinction enormous. Most American children are taught English, and kids on the sand lot learn baseball's vocabulary of moves. The hard part is turning such knowledge into...
...purposeful in life). Of course, emotion produces negative results too--but what is the function of education if not to combine reason and insight and moral awareness in the proctorship of human affairs? Education teaches us to distinguish a reasoned argument of artifice and greed from one of true merit...
...main roles helps to explain that. But trying to take Vienna out of Strauss is like trying to perform a heart transplant--you'd better have the replacement handy. The first act, for example, could as easily be set in Yonkers as in Vienna. True, the Lowell dining hall has little potential to be converted into a ballroom, but Lowell Opera gives up in despair from the start...