Word: writes
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When Fermiana's father finds out about the illicit yet innocent relationship, he sends his daughter to the countryside on a "journey of forgetting," and he warns Florentino not to write, much less speak, to his daughter again. Florentino resolves to love Fermina forever, but when he approaches her after her return from the countryside, her sentiment has obviously changed. "Instead of the commotion of love she felt the abyss of disenchantment," and Fermina cries out to him, "No please! Forget it!" His hopes dashed for love in the present, Florentino contents himself with faith in the eternal...
...addition to the complications over insurance premiums, the council also had to wait several weeks for each house master to write a letter agreeing to accept the machines, Bramson said...
...does he do it? Berlin never learned to read music, employing assistants to notate his tunes and help harmonize them. "I'm a little like a poet who can write verses that people like, but who can't parse the sentences in his poems," he once said. Well, he isn't worried: any high school kid can parse. He always knew exactly what he was doing. In 1920, when he was still talking to the press, Berlin offered nine rules for composing a song. Write it for the average voice, for either sex to sing. The title should be strong...
...mother decided to visit an astrologer. Upon hearing about the session, Joan marveled at the seer's prescience and was hooked. After graduating from Vassar in 1947, Quigley returned to San Francisco where the very same astrologer, an elderly Scotchwoman, took her under her wing. Quigley went on to write about astrology for Seventeen magazine and in books and to make regular radio and television appearances...
...slurs that are bothering Anthony Davis. Not racial cracks or snooty disparagement -- not those slurs at all. No, the slurs that have drawn his ire are the little hemispheres that composers write over groups of notes to indicate a phrase. Musical slurs. Value-free slurs. And, insists Davis, they are all wrong...