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His denials of extensive reading notwithstanding, it is no doubt safe to assume that he has spent time schooling himself in Southern history and that he has gained some acquaintance with the chief literary authors who have lived in the South or have written about the South.
Even if people do, in a not far distant future, begin to read one another's minds, there will still be the question of whether what you find in another man's mind is especially worth reading -- worth more, that is, than what you can read in good books.
There is essential pleasantness in reading the writing of men who are not angry, who can contend without quarreling.
There is a risk that instead of teaching a person how to be himself, reading fiction and drama may teach him how to be somebody else.
Clearly what the person brings to the reading is important.
In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??
Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.
Lawrence Ferlenghetti and Bruce Lippincott have concentrated on writing a new poetry for reading with jazz that is very closely related to both the musical forms of jazz, and the vocabulary of the musician.
In addition to his experiments in reading poetry to jazz, Patchen is beginning to use the figure of the modern jazz musician as a myth hero in the same way he used the figure of the private detective a decade ago.
he usually draws some kind of comparison with the jazz tradition and the poem he is reading -- for instance, he draws the parallel between a poem he reads about an Oriental courtesan waiting for the man she loves, and who never comes, and the old blues chants of Ma Rainy and other Negro singers -- but usually the comparison is specious.
The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.
There's more reading and instruction to be heard on discs than ever before, although the spoken rather than the sung word is as old as Thomas Alva Edison's first experiment in recorded sound.
If we sit here reading editorials and looking at public-opinion polls and other reports that cross our desks, we should realize that this is raw, undigested opinion expressed in the absence of leadership.
Oddly enough, it is proven that there would be less reading difficulty.
`` It is as though '', I said on the historic three-hour, coast-to-coast radio broadcast which I bought ( following Father Coughlin and pre-empting the Eddie Cantor, Manhattan Merry-go-round and Major Bowes shows ) `` That Man in the White House, like some despot of yore, insisted on reading my diary, raiding my larder and ransacking my lingerie!!
In the primary grades, reading permeates almost every aspect of school progress, and the children's early experiences of success or failure in learning to read often set a pattern of total achievement that is relatively enduring throughout the following years.
While we had expected that compulsive children in the unstructured school setting would have difficulty when compared to those in the structured, we were surprised to find that the achievement of the high compulsives within the schools where the whole-word method is used in beginning reading compares favorably with that of the low compulsives.
The fact that such threat is potent in the beginning reading lessons is thought to be a vital factor in the continued pattern of failure or under-achievement these children exhibit.
By the time the child first attacks the actual problem of reading, he is completely familiar and at ease with all of the elements of words.
When an occurrence Af is isolated during text reading, a random memory address Af, the address of a cell in the X-region, is computed from the form of Af.

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This is based on reading Nrurim as Inruriu.
The new Breitkopf & Härtel and Bärenreiter make this alteration differently, but the result is a reading that is different from what was commonly accepted based on the 1864 Breitkopf edition.
This reading could be based on Malachi 3: 1, " Behold, I will send my messenger ...", if my messenger is taken literally as the name Malachi.
This hypothesis is dismissed by pious scholars as erroneous, based on a mistaken cuneiform reading, but academic debate continues.
A fanzine community developed and was based on sale to a reading public and exchanges by editor / publishers.
In his Homilies Concerning the Statutes St. John Chrysostom ( 344 – 408 ) explicitly espoused the idea, based on his reading of Scripture, that the Earth floated on the waters gathered below the firmament, and St. Athanasius ( c. 293 – 373 ) expressed similar views in Against the Heathen.
Incremental reading is based on psychological principles of long-term memory storage and retrieval, in particular the spacing effect.
For incremental reading to leave a permanent mark in long-term memory, the processed material must be gradually converted into material based on active recall.
Halakha, the rabbinic Jewish way of life, then, is based on a combined reading of the Torah, and the oral tradition-the Mishnah, the halakhic Midrash, the Talmud and its commentaries.
After control of Taiwan was handed to the Republic of China in 1945, the official romanization of the city name came to be " Kao-hsiung ", based on the Wade – Giles romanization of the Mandarin reading of the kanji name.
Friends such as Bram Stoker defended his " psychological " reading, based on the supposition that Macbeth had dreamed of killing Duncan before the start of the play.
Kenji Tokitsu has suggested that the accepted birth date of 1584 for Musashi is wrong, as it is primarily based on a literal reading of the introduction to the Go Rin No Sho where Musashi states that the years of his life " add up to 60 " ( yielding the twelfth year of the Tensho era, or 1584, when working backwards from the well-documented date of composition ), when it should be taken in a more literary and imprecise sense, indicating not a specific age but merely that Musashi was in his sixties when he wrote it.
Jewish law and custom is based not only on a literal reading of the Tanakh, but on the combined oral and written tradition.
In addition to some language derived from the New Testament in the liturgy itself ( e. g., the Trisagion may be based on Apocalypse 4: 8, and the beginning of the " Hymn of Praise " draws upon Luke 2: 14 ), the reading of extended passages from the New Testament is a practice common to almost all Christian worship, liturgical or not.
The popular legend that he attempted the ancient methods of flame gazing, water gazing or both simultaneously is based on a naive reading of his first two verses, which merely liken his efforts to those of the Delphic and Branchidic oracles.
Some argued that this gave presbyteries the " local option " of ordaining or not ordaining anyone based on a particular presbytery's reading of the constitutional statute.
These maintenance actions are based on conditions ( e. g., gauge reading or leaky valve ), hard conditions ( e. g., a component is known to fail after 100 hrs of operation with 95 % certainty ), or require inspection to determine the maintenance action ( e. g., metal fatigue ).
Developments in geology meant that there was little opposition based on a literal reading of Genesis, but defence of the argument from design and natural theology was central to debates over the book in the English speaking world.
This was chiefly done by Aaron ben Moses ben Asher, in the Tiberias school, based on the oral tradition for reading the Tanakh, hence the name Tiberian vocalization.
These resolutions attempt to reassert state sovereignty over any area not listed among the " enumerated powers " ( i. e., any law based on an " expansive reading " of the Commerce Clause, the Necessary and Proper Clause, or the Supremacy Clause would, according to this resolution, be invalid ).
New England Unitarians evolved from the Pilgrim fathers ' Congregational Christianity, which was originally based on a literal reading of the Bible.
Listening to the reading of Scripture and a sermon based upon the Biblical text is virtually always included in United Methodist worship.
Though Puccini's first interest in the subject was based on his reading of Friedrich Schiller's adaptation of the play, his work is most nearly based on the earlier text Turandot by Carlo Gozzi.
Aristotle's methodology was inductive and based on reading the great tragedians of his day.

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