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Will the NFL be as powerful in three decades?
And perhaps this may be more to your tastes, Mr. Bauder: 'Gheorghiu says her fierce independence and uncompromising nature when it comes to art were born of leaving home at 14. "I was used to taking all the decisions in my life by myself. I am very independent; I never asked advice, ever. This is not just bla-bla-bla-bla for me, c'est une mode du vie. It is my way of life. '"To do in my career, even in my study, all my roles from the age of 18, I never had a teacher, or a pianist or a coach for language."' http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/will-so… Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/music/will-so…— March 13, 2016 8:53 p.m.
Will the NFL be as powerful in three decades?
Did I imply that poets are sissies, or was it someone else and I missed the post? The poets "get" the girls. The poohers are left to take matters into their own stubby hands. So here we have come full circle--from jocks to sissies to jocks. Ain't that the grandest thing about really free speech?— March 13, 2016 3:46 p.m.
Will the NFL be as powerful in three decades?
I suspect that neither of you is wrong; you're simply thinking different "languages."— March 13, 2016 3:40 p.m.
Will the NFL be as powerful in three decades?
Another example from a different source: "We had had many discussions at the galley table and there had been many honest attempts to understand each other's thinking. There are several kinds of reception possible. There is the mind which lies in wait with traps for flaws, so set that it may miss, through not grasping it, a soundness. There is a second which is not reception at all, but blind flight because of laziness, or because some pattern is disturbed by the processes the discussion. The best reception of all is that which is easy and relaxed, which says in effect, "Let me absorb this thing. Let me try to understand it without private barriers. When I have understood what you are saying, only then will I subject it to my own scrutiny and my own criticism." This is the finest of all critical approaches, and the rarest. "The smallest and meanest of all is that which, being frightened or outraged by thinking outside or beyond its pattern, revenges itself senselessly; leaps on a misspelled word or a mispronunciation, drags tricky definition in by the scruff of the neck, and, ranging like a small unpleasant dog, rags and tears the structure to shreds. We have known a critic to base a vicious criticism on a misplaced letter in a word, when actually he was venting rage on an idea he hated. These are the suspicious ones, the self-protective ones, living lives of difficult defense, insuring themselves against folly with folly -- stubbornly self-protective at too high a cost." John Steinbeck (1902-1968) and Edward Flanders Ricketts (1897-1948) The Log from the Sea of Cortez, 1951 Chapter 27 "April 8"— March 13, 2016 12:33 p.m.
Will the NFL be as powerful in three decades?
"I believe" pooh-pooh" could be considered a poem, at least as good as "We? Whee!" which is supposedly the shortest poem. Best, Don Bauder" Haiku is more than a sneeze in Japanese. Poetry that is poetry reveals rather than conceals.— March 13, 2016 12:02 p.m.
Will the NFL be as powerful in three decades?
Anyone who *professes* to "teach" poetry . . . I shall refrain from labeling and libeling . . . I took a course in creative writing in college (from a professor). My "grade" was issued thus: "As to the *quality* of your writing there is no doubt, but on the basis of [the quantity of] what you've turned in, I can only justify a 'C.'" I later took some unsanctified "courses" in writing and poetry from a published author and poet, and got no grade at all--and was not "tested." But I got published, just not as poetry. As it should have been. *Performance* is what counts; certification is a license to steal. Beware the *certified* poet! Art is like birth. It requires gestation; surrender to forces beyond conscious control. It is inconsistent with ego, which, of course, is very difficult to suspend. There exist, of course, egotistical "artists." College professors also exist that are without ego, but they seem to me to be exceptional. A label is one thing; a *passion* is something else that no institution can asses, much less understand. Such professors, if they are allowed to become professors at all and are not fired, are present in universities in spite of the "educational system," not because of it.— March 13, 2016 11:57 a.m.
Will the NFL be as powerful in three decades?
No H. C. Andersen?— March 12, 2016 9:51 p.m.
Will the NFL be as powerful in three decades?
Are you reinforcing my point? Well, she was considered a sinner--unfit for the (Miss) education system. And boys didn't read stuff by girls. Unfortunate that you had to rely only or primarily upon an institution for learning about all the stuff that poetry is about. T.S.? Well, okay, if you like slice-of-life stuff. Try a little Millay; then see what you say . . .— March 12, 2016 9:28 p.m.
Will the NFL be as powerful in three decades?
"Flapper: If our real world is fuzzy, our perceptions of the world blinded, our ability to articulate non-existent, then why do all those presidential aspirants have all the answers? Best, Don Bauder" My advice is "don't take my advice." I promise you that the text at this link will be worthy of your time . . . http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature… And it will answer your questions far better than I ever could. Here is a sample. WARNING! It is out of context, therefore, it may not convey the whole. "All sorts of torturers, dictators, fanatics, and demagogues struggling for power by way of a few loudly shouted slogans also enjoy their jobs, and they too perform their duties with inventive fervor. Well, yes, but they "know." They know, and whatever they know is enough for them once and for all. They don't want to find out about anything else, since that might diminish their arguments' force. And any knowledge that doesn't lead to new questions quickly dies out: it fails to maintain the temperature required for sustaining life. In the most extreme cases, cases well known from ancient and modern history, it even poses a lethal threat to society." --Maria Wisława Anna Szymborska (translated from Polish)— March 12, 2016 3:53 p.m.
Will the NFL be as powerful in three decades?
Rather than continue the infinite compression of this final and complete blog software, I am moving my response to the Big Reply Box.— March 12, 2016 3:37 p.m.