Word: yourselfing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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A heary Beacon Hill dame surveyed Boston's historic Common Saturday evening. To a little girl who had just spilt a plate of beans on the historic Mall, she snapped, "You should be ashamed of yourself for making such a mess. Clean it right up." Apparently the spectacle of ten...
Banalities & Black Bottoms. The engrossing story begins with the Prince of Wales's casual classes in kingship and a talk about the facts of royal life with his father (said George V: "Always remember . . . who you are"). But the Prince's "mature development" was left pretty much to...
Captain Jones is converted during the course of the voyage to a more pious point of view than is held by the usual man of the sea. Gebler tells of this conversion with admirable lack of bathos, at the same time conveying the force of the event. The conversion, incidentally...
Most prefer to conform to some extent, to strike the balance between the individual tastes, and the Harvard stereotype. It is the easiest way to be yourself and yet not have to explain your actions.
To meet the standards proposed for them, poets may have to recast their whole techniques. But readers, on their part, can help themselves with a few simple exercises. Here, according tp Poet Church, is how to do it: . "Try humming the letter 'M' to yourself, gradually increasing volume...