Word: writes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This counterrevolution of the intellectuals was [presaged] by one of the most vivid events of my time. It involved, coincidentally, an editor of TIME magazine, Whittaker Chambers, [the late former Communist] who in public testimony in 1948 named former high U.S. Government officials as spies . . . [Later] Chambers would write that faith, not economics, is the central problem of our age, and that "the crisis of the Western world exists to the degree in which it is indifferent to God." Chambers' story represents a generation's disenchantment with statism and its return to eternal truths and fundamental values...
...Donoso does nothing to discourage them. But he also ducks any implied accusations of realism. After setting and populating his scene in the first chapter, the author takes pains to point out that his creations are impalpable figures of fancy. He asks his readers to "accept what I write as an artifice. By intruding myself from time to time on the story I simply wish to remind the reader of his distance from the material of this novel, which I would like to claim as something entirely my own, for exhibit or display, never offered for the reader to confuse...
...inmates at Concord graduated from Harvard in 1939. Though he was once an engineer, he is currently helping one of the other inmates write his autobiography. "I'm really enjoying the program. Like the autobiography, it gives me something to do. I'm surprised there aren't more people here," he says...
...your desk: it will cost you $4.25 a day. Keep it over the weekend and you've bought it. Never, never get sick during exam period: each make-up exam carries a fee of $25. Luckily, the Handbook for Students does offer some hope for relief, if you write to the Registrar four weeks in advance and cancel the exam, you are relieved of your financial obligations. You go scot-free. Unfortunately, you also fail the course...
...Expos 5 is coming about because we have discovered that the number of people arriving at Harvard unprepared to write is on the increase," Christine Flug, an Expos tutor and the program's designer, said yesterday. "The problems are getting severe nationwide, and it is silly to pretend that it doesn't touch our people," she explained...