Word: verb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...itself is a sneeze in search of a vowel. His colleagues at a small Eastern college can make out Pnin's pastoral odes to "Tsentral Park," but few realize that "I search for the viscous and sawdust" is a request for whisky and soda. Devoted to the active verb and the present tense, Pnin invests the simplest acts with explosive vitality ("I never go in a hat even in winter"). In all verbal matters, Pnin would rather be wrong than hesitant, and no doughtier comic immigrant has set foot on the shores of U.S. fiction since Timofey...
...ridiculous. Yet, every so often Ionesco shows us a glimmering of reality that other writers seldom uncover. InThe Bald Soprano the characters seem to say whatever comes to their minds--momentary antagonisms, sexual impulses, errant thoughts, and every-day chatter. There are dull stretches, but such devices as mixed verb tenses when speaking of death give an interesting timelessness to the play. Ionesco is often incomprehensible, but seldom meaningless, and he seems to be saying "Look how strange and funny mankind...
...desperate): Well, the only clue I can give you is that it's something people do to other people or nations do to other nations. It's-I might even be misleading you-it's also a verb. It's something that takes place on a nation...
...work of roughly 10,000 words in an ordinary language. Proper names and certain technical words which have no Picto equivalent are spelled out as in the original. In the interest of simplicity. Picto has no articles, makes no distinction between adjectives and adverbs. Its word order goes: subject, verb, direct object, indirect object. Janson started with the personal pronouns-I, you, he and she-which he designated I, II, III, and which retain the same form when they shift from subject to object. Plurals are indicated with the figure 2. Thus...
...that he will drag them by the hair to his champagne-stocked cave, while others like to weep at his middleaged, father-daughter sentiments. Most of his audiences, as a French magazine puts it, simply like to think of him as the fellow who dots the "i" in the verb aimer...