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...tantalizing hint of historical truth comes when Pharaoh's daughter adopts the child in the basket and names him Moses. The name is connected to a Hebrew verb indicating that she drew him from the water. Many scholars, however, think it derives from an Egyptian suffix meaning "to be born"--just as Rameses, who was considered divine, is a form of Ra-Moses, or "the god Ra is born...
Last week's National Book Awards banquet in Manhattan was an exquisite literary evening. Copies of nominated books graced each table, nonfloral arrangements for perusal by the usually rumpled and solitary wrestlers of verb and tense now glittering in tuxedos and sequins. There was some disappointment over Tom Wolfe's absence. The room, so festive in black, had expected a coronation for the man so tailored in white: his A Man in Full was the talk of the town, the favorite for the fiction prize. But then John Updike, the most influential of America's living novelists, took the stage...
...preface to Carson's book explains that the autobiography is a chronological compilation of King's writings. Carson says he made minor changes in grammar, such as changing verb tenses, pronouns, references to time and spelling...
...Unfortunately, this is the closest that any Harvard guy will get to asking out a girl to a formal. Note the lack of object orientation in the question, as well as the noted omission of verb "are" to ensure extreme casual nature. These five words were rehearsed this morning in the shower over and over again, and, quite frankly, he is quite satisfied with his performance. Signal: He likes...
...Lambert layers too much poetic exposition and lofty thoughts onto his basic account of rowing, it begins to take on a ring of inauthenticity. Lambert demonstrates an intelligent, distinctive and at moments strikingly creative style, incorporating references as diverse as analysis of the Latin root of the verb "to educate" to quoting Kierkegaard. However, his voice as a writer comes into conflict with his desire to clearly convey the rowing experience. It is difficult to believe that a rower on the Charles before sunrise is thinking about the benefits to learning from mistakes orthe merits of teamwork...