As I tell my Introduction to U.S. Government and Politics students, listening to others does not mean we have to agree with or condone their beliefs.
Its introduction, telling viewers that the Starship Enterprise was on a five-year mission "to boldly go where no man has gone before" became the best known split infinitive in the English language.
As he himself acknowledges in his introduction, "telling Columbia's capacious story in a book of limited length" means giving short shrift to, or omitting, "hundreds of significant individual performers and ensembles" and even entire genres.
Last month, the rapper opened up about "Smile" in an episode of Netflix's "My Next Guest Needs No Introduction," telling host David Letterman he hit the studio to record it just one day after his mother came out to him. .
As you will be the listener, you will not need an elaborate introduction telling you what the recording is about - if you are not comfortable and at ease with listening to yourself then you might need professional therapy that is beyond the scope of this article!
"Even if people can't put up with James Bond and those fancy heroines of yours, they seem to like the exotic backgrounds," Fleming recalled his editor telling him, in the introduction to Thrilling Cities – the book that came out of those travels.
Instead of skulking anonymously or hiding behind his camera, he is often the center of attention, making introductions and telling jokes, a cigarette in one hand and a cocktail in the other.
Shlaes's introduction tells us, "It is time to revisit the late 1920s and the 1930s.
As you can tell from that introduction, Mr. Mayer is more than a little self-conscious about his role as a pop star.
