The tax code defines public charities as organizations that are "religious, educational, charitable, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, to foster national or international amateur sports competition or prevention of cruelty to animals".
The federal tax code defines nonprofits as organizations that are "religious, educational, charitable, scientific, literary, testing for public safety, to foster national or international amateur sports competition or prevention of cruelty to animals".
Mr. Dowdy has his concerns about suppression of minority votes, but thinks the nature of the suppression has changed from the time of Section 5. "Rather than the literary tests and poll taxes, the problems we have now are different," Mr. Dowdy said.
I raised history and literary theory as test cases.
Rather, she's interested in deconstructing this famously opaque former first lady as a sort of literary exercise — to test her own skills as a writer, and to find an excuse to blather on (and on and on) about her own ideas about fiction writing, about women and about the interface between life and art.
Testing Literary Waters On the side, Mr. McCourt made fitful stabs at writing.
It was, he said, "the most testing literary exercise I have undergone".
Long asides on his own as yet unfulfilled wishes (for a threesome, for more literary accolades) will perhaps test the indulgence of even loyal fans.
But, of course, "coolness" is not really a valid test for literary worth (or anything else for that matter, except trousers).
I would also recommend that whenever material is deleted from a literary passage in a test, the omission should be indicated with ellipses.
