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"Borrowing a voice," says Simon Bibby.
In literature, this means an author speaking in a style that is not his own -- borrowing a voice and continuing to use it until the words lose all meaning and the chaos that is real life sets in.
The students at the New School who occupied a university building last week borrowed a voice of revolutions past when they read from "On the Poverty of Student Life," a situationist manifesto first published by students at the University of Strasbourg in 1966, and distributed there and in Paris by the tens of thousands, eventually becoming a key text in the May 1968 uprisings.
NBC, please borrow a foreign-born voice from CBS. García and Mickelson were the subjects of NBC's palpable hope for someone to compete to the 18th green against Woods, or maybe even beat him.
Mr. Murphy, once the lead singer for the English group Bauhouse and now a success on the alternative-rock scene, has a voice that ranges, to borrow a phrase, from A to B. The band - guitar, bass, drums, synthesizer and lots of backing tapes - played solemn, simple music unhindered by complicated melodies or rhythms.
I borrow a phrase from my father's beloved nautical dictionary, as well as his voice.
"Can I borrow a pen?".
(You can borrow a pole).
We borrow a million dollars a minute.
Could friends borrow a white Jaguar?
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