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...prisoners' violent upbringings show up in unexpected ways, tutors say. "I asked this guy for a sample sentence--subject, object, verb--and [he] wrote, 'Johnny stabbed the police officer,'" Darby says...
Words flutter in his air like seabirds. Tern. There's a word. A noun. The Captain adores all nouns, proper and improper. A proper noun is a metaphor, observes the Captain, feeling very much the master of his bark. Bark! Noun- verb. Verbs are the best. Bray. Loop. Whir. In his captain's chair, the Captain sits every morning, pen in hand, happy as a clam, happier than any fisherman casting for trout. Trout! Is this the life? Captain Midlife asks unrhetorically, gazing about him with an astonishingly stupid grin...
...curious, often unruly marriage between politics and television, there are certain charged moments that flicker in the national memory. Richard Nixon tense and sweaty debating an unruffled John Kennedy. Ed Muskie's frozen tears in the snows of New Hampshire. Ted Kennedy groping for meaning and a verb in an interview with Roger Mudd. Ronald Reagan squaring his jaw and asserting, "I'm paying for this microphone, Mr. Green!" Who cares that the man's name was actually Breen? It was great television...
...article "B-School May Retest MBAs". While Ms. Mullin did not misquote me, she distorted my remarks considerably by presenting me as an authoritative source when I had made it perfectly clear that I was not. I stated repeatedly that I did not think (and I did emphasize the verb) that it was common for professors to investigate case sales histories before administering exams, but that I was not at all sure since those inquiries would not, in any case, be directed to me to begin with. Had Ms. Mullin bothered to speak with the Assistant Director of Publishing Operations...
...great man is one sentence," Clare Boothe Luce was fond of pronouncing. "History has no time for more than one sentence, and it is always a sentence that has an active verb." In her own life, however, Luce insistently defied her own prescription, as she did so many assumptions. Too successful and too driven ever to confine herself to a single sentence, she completed an entire paragraph, baroque with ornamental periods, bristling with active verbs and packed with household names...