Foreword 前言This article is dedicated to Grace. Thank you, Grace, for giving this book to me. It’s been a while since I last picked up a book about “Black Oppression”. It was all too vivid. Two scenes from “
Maybe that’s why it didn’t occur to me just how much the words of ‘The Seeker’ – a song about a man I could see in my mind’s eye as I wrote it, that wild-eyed Vietnam vet who grabbed Karen when we did our first tourist walk of Haight-Ashbury – reflected the impasse I...
The same musician who wrote the spiteful,Run For Your Life– with lyrics (“Well I’d rather see you dead little girl than to be with another man…”) I recognized as creepy/controlling/stalker-y even when I was a third-grader – later wrote the beautiful/haunting/yearning/evocative songs...
Did I? Not always. But I was determined to approach my mother’s devastation with something like curiosity. Perhaps that’s what stopped me from going mad: I asked questions. I need to know the whys and wherefores of dementia prevention; it’s not enough to read t...
My chosen route may have been something of a cop-out, then. I bought just enough books for the book launch, and to place a few in a local hotel and a couple of local shops. Re-wind. WHAT I DID cost me around £1,000, trying to keep costs down a bit. The Killer Truth is ...
When his voice rises to a quaver on the bridge of A-side “True Love” (titled sardonically of course) and he belts “well it hurts so bad / just won’t go away,” it shares a common method with country music (simple, somewhat generic lyrics delivered with a force that renders them...
He said without the job, he would __49__ have too much time and would just do what I did back in 50.college. He said that if he 51.quit the job, he would lose his 52.drive to work and succeed. 49.A.luckily B.hardly C.hopefully D.simply 分析:根据句意可知,他说如果没有那份...
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“Did you know that the Rhodes Scholarship was founded on blood money?” DUBNER: “Did you know that *everything* was founded on blood money, if you go back far enough?” “Today on the show: In the era of cancel culture, should we still be able to enjoy the art of ...
Every class was like a bad dream. The teacher spoke so 1 that I did not understand her most of the time. I was afraid to ask questions because of my poor pronunciation. I just 2 behind my textbook and never said anything. Then one day I watched an English movie called Toy Stony. I...