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...long, lonely night. The elderly Mrs. Ueda picked up without hesitation on the third line - "drags on and on" - and ended the poem with a smile. In the moment that followed, we both felt the echo of words that nimbly and delightfully spanned generations, cultures and centuries, and understood exactly why the Hyakunin Isshu is so enduring. Fujiwara no Teika may have shown the world a gruff, ill-natured and unlovely face, but no ogre had a heart more sentimental or more delicate...
...Authorizing a particular position in a particular department is going to be understood better by a divisional dean than by this office,” Smith said...
...years David Ortiz has carried the Red Sox on his shoulders. Now it is our turn to carry him on ours. Those of us who are true (admittedly irrational) fans have long understood that our emotions and our rituals affect the play on the field. So we must replace our negative fears about what is wrong with absolute certainty that this will pass so that our confidence in him can restore his confidence in himself. P.S. In the 1950s, when Brooklyn Dodger first baseman Gil Hodges was in an equally terrible slump, entire parishes prayed for him. And I gave...
...never understood what possesses people to run. Granted, I was always the kid on my little league baseball team who got paired with the catcher during sprints…and lost. But I’ve tried recreational running both on a treadmill and outside, and the same thing always happens about five minutes in—my lungs ache, my right shoulder hurts, and my stomach cramps up. So I’ve just never understood running...
...Frederick breathed in the barn’s hot air and felt the blood quicken in his veins. The Stable Boy took a single step in Frederick’s direction, and by this gesture Frederick knew that the two men understood one another...