Within months Keller had learned to feel objects and associate them with words spelled out by finger signals on her palm, to read sentences by feeling raised words on cardboard, and to make her own sentences by arranging words in a frame.
The more genuine argument to be had concerns the writer's "moral obligation to be intelligent" — in John Erskine's immortal coinage — and, by extension, the moral obligation to write well, to choose self-assertion over mere self-expression, to raise words above the enervated ruck and make the world anew.
In searches for divergent homologues, the statistical significance threshold for reporting matches was raised, word size decreased to 2, and matrix and gap costs varied.
Walk into La Casa en El Aire, a brightly painted cottage-like coffeehouse in Santiago's dynamic Bellavista neighbourhood, and you'll know what Chile's most famous poet, Pablo Neruda, meant when he said, "I drink to the word, raising / a word or crystalline cup".
Niwa mentions raising one word "semi-open innovation" as a keyword; it is important for internal cooperation within Japanese companies [15, 25].
The orphans of forgetting are any kid who's in that shadow of negligence and who is therefore more susceptible to being raised by words and ideologies than by humans who have words and ideologies.
"I was raised on words," he once wrote.
And yet when Obama got to the lectern at Parks's funeral he betrayed no emotion, raised no words of protest.
"Raise your words, not voice.
Ms. Simmons' eyebrow-raising word-bomb brought back memories of, among others, television reporter Arthur Chi'en, who was fired from WCBS-TV for shouting an obscenity at some hecklers on the air in 2005.
In other words, raising animals is not only sustainable, but required.
