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November 22, 2023 | standardized text or formulaic language In the days before computers, small newspapers around the U.S. relied heavily on feature stories, editorials, and other printed material

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Nov 24, 2023 · We all get swept up in his promise not to let people use Marty, and he lets his wife and his friends think he’s performing a mitzvah by bringing the introverted Marty out of his shell.” — …

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Nov 14, 2023 · The most famous literary and filmic specimen that focuses, as games do, on spatial traversal amid existential threat is Lord of the Rings —which, of course, exerted a strong influence on …

Oct 19, 2023 · The comparison with Kafka misses much of [Bruno] Schulz’s surreal humour and vivacity; the writer of whom he reminds me most is Maurice Sendak, with his bewitching childhood worlds …

September 01, 2023 | a government order that limits trade in some way English speakers got embargo—both the word and the concept, it seems—from the Spanish in the early 17th century.

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September 17, 2023 | a ram's-horn trumpet used in some Jewish religious services One of the shofar's original uses was to proclaim the Jubilee year (a year of emancipation of enslaved Jews and