Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kahn's piece lacked any critical perspective. So you like the guy, Joe, I don't say you're not entitled to an opinion. But what is it doing on page three in (allegedly) a news analysis on whether Bok will leave. Write it on page two or keep it to yourself. We all get the Gazette for free, and I don't think many of us could bear to red it six times a week. Nancy Page...
...going to write that I love you because I can't say it. You're a wonderful person, your personality and all. Before I used to think that only your own race cares for you. That's not true is it? If it's true don't tell me. Anyway I'm never forgetting about you. When I move to college I want you to visit me and I will write to you . . . P.S. If you feel that I'm talking foolishly, well too bad. If you're getting tired, tell me. And if you want to finish with...
...read at a fourth-grade level." Mallory looks pleased again. "I taught him myself, by my own special method. If he don't know a word, I make him write it ten times. I make him read a book every night, until he's got it. I've been doing this for years. But Michael's teachers tell me not to teach...
Graves dismissed such work as the price he had to pay to write poetry: "Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat." Ironically, he was a livelier and in some ways more interesting writer when he catered to public tastes. Goodbye to All That still crackles with malice and the vivid absurdities of trench warfare. I, Claudius, the imaginary memoir of a Roman emperor whom historians had largely derided or ignored, manages to be both intelligent and spellbinding...
...tables have been turned on us." There is in our society a kind of diseased journalism which has an "incredible virulence." I mean to identify a syndrome, the symptoms of which Jeff Wise exemplifies: irresponsibility on the part of the journalist (avoiding doing the necessary background research to write cogently on an issue); loss of logic (note Wise's thought process: Diseases were dealt with poorly, doctors learned how to find cures, a new disease defies cure, so we should deal with disease defies cure, so we should deal with diseases poorly as we did in the first place...