Word: wishing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...curiosity account for the deaths of two young men? It may explain the actions of the teenagers, but it fails to reach beyond them. I am reminded of Kant on the existence of God, who explains that our thinking cannot wish God into existence. Nor can the thoughts of two teenagers explain the deaths of two other...
...vogue among sportswriters is to criticize current major leaguers for not appreciating what Robinson did, but the vast majority do. "Jackie Robinson stands for bravery, dignity, intelligence, intensity," Willie McGee of the St. Louis Cardinals said this spring. "He changed baseball and America. I wish he was still here to change them some more. As far as I'm concerned, he is the man of the century...
This moral lunacy is dramatized with the piercing common sense that characterizes both Roth's funniest and soberest works. "The world is not a place on which I have influence or wish to have any," says Merry through a veil, a safety net for microbes. Swede's reply cries out to distraught parents everywhere: "You are influencing me! You who will not kill a mite are killing me...your powerlessness is power over me, goddamn...
Finally, Oppenheim complains that the Ellen case is foolishness because "Americans probably don't even care. They do not need nor wish to have issues of sexuality constantly thrust in their faces...The fact that Ellen likes women is no more important to my life than whether Jerry Seinfeld enjoys receiving fellatio...
...There are thousands of people wanting you to finish," Thomas adds. "I wish it were that way with exams and other things in life...