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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from Bangkok said that China had launched a series of air strikes against military depots near Haiphong, where Soviet ships were unloading supplies. Officials in Peking and Washington discredited the report within hours, but not before it had hit front pages around the world and had thus been woven whole cloth into the war's tapestry of mystification and misinformation...
...volatile mix. Blues Singer Joe Turner, a burly man with a boyish face, "sometimes ... pushes his words together, lopping off the consonants and flattening the vowels so that whole lines go past as pure melody, as pure horn playing." Ray Charles can sing anything but opera: "The sound of his pinewoods voice tearing along over violins and a choir is one of the wonders of music." Cabaret Singer Blossom Dearie, a honey-blond with a "boxed and beribboned" manner, offers a tiny sound that "without a microphone, would not reach the second floor of a doll house...
...experience with Diana Thomson's fiction class this fall stands above and beyond a whole multitude of highlights in what for me has been a very exciting and satisfying first year at Harvard. While immersing myself in extracurricular activities that included drama, work, and an active social life, I found little reason to give serious attention to my three other general education courses during the first half of the year. On the other hand, Mrs. Thomson made my first encounter with creative writing not only a learning experience, but also the only class in which I felt a real academic...
Marius's proposal also fails to deal with the broader problems in the Expository Writing program as a whole. By most accounts, other Expos courses do not train students to write skillful expository prose either, and certainly do not motivate already-competent essay-writers to improve their prose, a merit fiction teachers claim for the fiction options. Marius would do well to concentrate his reforming energies on these far more serious drawbacks to the program, so that Harvard's required Expository Writing course will begin to turn out accomplished, or at the very least, competent, writers, as it is supposed...
...writing good comedy is knowing when to stop. One obvious pun that makes the audience hiss may be entertaining; two or three or even four may not. One comic gesture may go over well, but a whole chorus line full makes you turn away. Somewhere in the forest of one-liners, most importantly, there's got to be a story that makes the audience eager to know what happens next. But nobody bothered to tell Andy Borowitz, author and lyricist of No Net, about overkill...