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«The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.»
Author: Brendan Gill
(Author, Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
devoted, firecracker, guns, hissed, hisses, hissing, journalist, pages, popping, rumble, rumbles, rumbling, sedulously, that much, tiny
«Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.»
«Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks»
«The New Yorker has devoted itself for 59 years not only to facts and literal accuracy but to truth. And truth begins, journalistically, with the facts.»
Author: William Shawn
| About:
America and Americans,
Cities
| Keywords:
accuracy, devoted, journalistically, The New Yorker
«Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government»
«Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.»
Author: Susan Sontag
(Activist, Critic, Writer)
| Keywords:
devoted, embarrassing, formerly, lowering, modern art, morals, shocking, threshold, thresholds
«Notwithstanding no devoted thing, that a man shall devote unto the LORD of all that he hath, both of man and beast, and of the field of his possession, shall be sold or redeemed: every devoted thing is most holy unto the LORD.»
«Now that practical skills have developed enough to provide adequately for material needs, one of these sciences which are not devoted to utilitarian ends [mathematics] has been able to arise in Egypt, the priestly caste there having the leisure neces»
«Modern education has devoted itself to the teaching of impudence, and then we complain that we can no longer control our mobs.»
«The Negro's great stumbling block in the drive toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| About:
Freedom,
Justice
| Keywords:
block, citizens, devoted, Great White, moderate, moderated, moderating, Negro, stumbling, The White, to order
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