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"Your poems must be more than want ads for broken hearts" -- in other words, to paraphrase Bertolt Brecht, to write mere "love poetry" in such times is "almost a crime".
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Wal-Mart is the world's largest private employer, and as the Ninth Circuit wrote, "mere size does not render a case unmanageable".
Mr. Olin suggests a modern update in the poetry of W. B. Yeats, who wrote: "Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,/the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/The ceremony of innocence is drowned".
It dramatised the fraught creative relationship between with librettist and composer, with Allan Corduner's Sullivan queasy about writing "mere" comic operas and Jim Broadbent's Gilbert superbly thin-skinned over anyone who dared to criticise his magical world of topsy turvydom.
So Mr. Ashkenazy began his program with this little-heard work, a setting of three folk tunes, though you cannot really call Rachmaninoff's boldly independent orchestra writing mere accompaniment.
And in a society as traditional as Mexico's -- where women are responsible for virtue and order, as Octavio Paz once wrote -- mere involvement in crime is enough to cause outrage and fascination.
The federal judiciary makes do with a budget appropriation of about $7 billion, he wrote, "a mere two-tenths of 1 percent of the United States' total budget of $3.7 trillion".
In 2004, he says, Fareed Zakaria described the United States as enjoying a "comprehensive uni-polarity" unlike anything seen since Rome, only to start writing, a mere four years later, about the "post-American world".
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