Word: vaines
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...once cautioned in a song that you can "waste your summer prayin' in vain for a savior to rise from these streets," but right now Springsteen represents a regeneration, a renewal of rock. He has gone back to the sources, rediscovered the wild excitement that rock has lost over the past few years. Things had settled down in the '70s: with a few exceptions, like Paul Simon, Jackson Browne and Linda Ronstadt, there was an excess of showmanship, too much din substituting for true power, repetition-as in this past summer's Rolling Stones tour-for lack...
Twenty minutes after the fire apparatus left the scene, another alarm sounded in the same building and the trucks returned, again in vain...
ANGEL YOU HAVE NOT DIED IN VAIN. So reads a crude sign on the side of a furniture plant near Nuarbe, a mountainside hamlet deep in Basque country 220 miles northeast of Madrid...
...upbringing, she inserted the words "upper middle class" to describe her social status. Moore also had second thoughts and crossed out some of the most revealing passages from her first version. In the text that follows, one portion that she deleted is enclosed in brackets. Since Moore nurtured the vain hope that the radicals would read her story and readmit her to their ranks, she set down some weird and garbled thoughts about business and economics, and wrote of her adventures as an FBI spy and gradual conversion to radical politics. But the document, though self-serving...
...bird. The notion that a writer spews patterns of words as naturally and compulsively as a bird emits its song is romantic, and Jean Paul Sartre finds it an annoying and common idea. It is a myth that writers tolerate out of vanity or humility. The vain ones like being thought of as vaguely magical. The humble ones avoid talking about themselves--their goals and their techniques--and this reticence leaves their occupation swathed in mystery. Sartre has patiently tried to explain the process of writing; he disects literature continuously and intently in the essays, lectures and interviews of Between...