Word: turned
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...meditation anything more than an active pursuit of self-knowledge, while writing is looking backwards. Putting pen to paper involves memory, and memory is linked to thought. By recalling his thoughts Matthiessen reveals not just what he was thinking but that he was thinking which means, in turn, he wasn't simply being...
...talkative than Man and Superman or Saint Joan. The characters are more three-dimensional and very finely drawn; they espouse philosophies, instead of embodying them, as is so often the case with Shavian types. Often, in fact, they seem to echo characters of other plays by Shaw, only they turn out not to be what they seem. This motif runs through Heartbreak House...
WHEN A LITERARY CRITIC sets out to write a novel of fantasy, he'd better be sure of his inspiration. The profession has had its share of success in the genre; C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien are only the most celebrated of a long line of academics to turn their esoteric knowledge into imaginative epics. But there is always a danger lurking in the author's fascination with his own private world of symbols: if he gets lost in it, he can easily forget his duty to tell a tale...
...acceptable means of protest. Students devoted to ending apartheid in South Africa can protest what they view as Harvard's involvement. But to link the South Africa protest with every other "hot issue" on campus just seems to illustrate a small groups of students' efforts to turn this into the year of minority concerns at Harvard...
...bully the loyalty of many Third World students. William Corson, the intelligence historian, cites one former CIA official as saying in 1976. "By 1985 we'll own 80 per cent of the Iranian government's second and third-level officials." One can almost see Ayatollah Khomeini's beard turn a whiter shade of grey. This ridiculous statement follows from the agency's incurable optimism about its own power and the success of its programs. The official failed to note that once in place only about one ex-student in four remains loyal to his intelligence master and even...