Word: wishfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impulsive," explains Butterfield, who has spent last 11 years editing The Papers for the Belknap of Harvard University . "He won't put down a lot of things that you wish he would, and then he will put down a lot of things you're surprises to find. But he's a great stylist. He says things that would be commonplace if said by anyone else, but he gives them a characteristics turn that makes what he writes worthy of perpetuation...
...attention," reads a draft letter to an unidentified correspondent, my Eyes tis true are on the Book, but Imagination is at a Tea Table with Orlinda." He imagined "a scene of Pleasure ... which seems to be grappled to my soul with Hooks of Steal, as immoveably as I wish to grapple in my Arms the Nimph who gives it all its ornaments...
Fans who merely wish to see major league baseball will find Fenway ark an enjoyable place to spend a hot summer afternoon. The Sox' next home stand begins July 21 against Minnesota, Los Angeles, and Kansas City. But becoming a confirmed Red Sox fan is something to be avoided. It's too painful to watch what could be a fairly good baseball team bumbling its way into ninth place...
BEETHOVEN: SEPTET IN E FLAT MAJOR (Deutsche Grammophon). "I wish it were burned," said Beethoven of his early septet, because he hated to let its popularity overshadow his other works. He would surely set a match to the piece if he could hear this singable, danceable performance by the sonorous strings and woodwinds of the Berlin Philharmonic Octet...
...teacher of Jewish confirmation students (15-year-olds) who are grappling with these very questions of identity and faith, I am grateful for your lucid presentation. Your essay was immediately ticketed for inclusion in next year's curriculum as required reading. I wish I could prescribe it as well for the parents...