and he had one letter left: a “y” which can be quite difficult to find a place for late in the game. He was about to throw in the towel and subtract the points from his overall total when I noticed there was a solution he did not see: the “y” could be added to the word ...
For the Sept.15 issue he assumed the guise of an economist to pen this cheeky letter to the editors: * * * Head in the Clouds Film critic John Mosher thought Bing Crosby was a fine singer, but he couldn’t quite fathom why the movie-makers at Paramount thought the singer would be ...
Einstein was at Princeton thanks to the rise ofAdolf Hitler, who came to power in Germany in early 1933 while Einstein was visiting the United States. Returning to Europe that March, Einstein knew he could not return to his home country (indeed, the Gestapo had raided his Berlin apartment a...
“When I was exposed to the truth by way of a book, I kept the secret, too. I was 13. My parents divorced, and five years later, my mother died. In 1966, I went to live with my father in Hollywood. I was forbidden to talk about our life: ‘Don’t discuss our family business...
To introduce my students to the format of letter-writing, I wrote and shared a new poem with them, titledI Wrote a Letter. The poem highlights the five elements of a friendly letter in a fun and lyrical way. If you are interested in downloading a copy for your personal use at home or...
Actually, I found a pretty cool Christmas card (at least to me). Now that I think about it, it's the only Christmas card I've ever kept and not thrown away when the holidays were over. But, then again, it's the only Christmas card that ever came from a global superstar named ...
Kurtis’ lyrics are brilliant, exactly clever enough and stupid enough to hit the bullseye. Who knew you could have so much fun with all the meanings of the word ‘breaks’? Kurtis, that’s who. Overall he mentions ‘breaks’ or derivations thereof no less than 84 times in seven-and-a...
“Romeo and Juliet/’ she follows to the letter Hamlet’s advice to the players, speaking “the speech trippingly on the tongue.” and as she proceeds we see Macbeth or mad Richard III. or the loving Romeo and Juliet as we imagine Shakespeare saw them after he had created them. It is...
33. Only write letters if they can also serve as voice over narration and don’t write a letter to your mother, wife, girlfriend, or brother and put it in your top left shirt pocket. (You won’t finish it or send it, especially if your name is Sullivan Ballou during Bull Run and...
and more vital than ever. Anne Frank and her family, fleeing the horrors of Nazi occupation, hid in the back of an Amsterdam warehouse 第 1 页 共 201 页 / 原版英语阅读网 for two years. She was thirteen when the family went into the Secret Annex, and in these pages she grows to be...