Word: wrongfulness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conferences, which could have been outstanding opportunities to learn what I was doing right as well as what I was doing wrong, turned out to be hurried fifteen minute encounters where the pat comment was, "spend more time editing and to get closer to the text." It was a fair criticism of my writing, but no one ever showed me in class or in conference the way to go about it. If the Expos staff were a football team, its cheerleaders would chant, "Closer to the text," as if this would really help lead the team to victory...
...ahead, bring your grandmother and the family dog--nothing wrong with good clean...
...wife and I write together. We actually have the same view of the question of stereotypes which is that the primary function--now, we may be wrong in this and stereotypes may do a great deal of harm--but that the primary function as a writer, as an artist, is to hold the mirror up to nature and to depict women and Black people as you perceive them, not how they should...
...about the randomness of fate...All our aspirations are subject to weather and how do you keep your optimism and behave in a positive way...A lot of research went into this and I felt that a Marxist analysis of the origins of crime was old hat and wrong. But the more I knew about it, the more I saw it was the case. You have to be uniquely disadvantaged in representation in court and social background to do much time...
...called out because I thought the person was my roommate Steve, but when nobody answered and the noise stopped I realized something was wrong," he said. "When I went out to the common room there was a guy who obviously wasn't a college student standing there. I asked him what hewanted and he said 'Does Robert Stone live here?'When I said `No', he asked for a directory...