What Barth wrote decades ago is even truer today.

In fact, there is almost no hard evidence for midlife crisis other than a few small pilot studies conducted decades ago, Barbara Hagerty writes in her new book, Life Reimagined.

At middle age, he wrote, the sowing is behind; now is the time to reap.

The philosophy professor says it is as relevant today as when it was first written many centuries ago.

Sugar, alcohol and tobacco, economist Adam Smith once wrote, are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which have become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are, therefore, extremely popular subjects of taxation.

Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-ofthe- century steel magnate ( ' , 巨頭) Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.

As a person who writes about food and drink for a living, I couldn't tell you the first thing about Bill Perry or whether the beers he sells are that great.

We do our absolute best with a piece of writing, and come as close as we can to the ideal.

The intimate nature of genuine criticism implies something about who is able to give it, namely, someone who knows you well enough to show you how your mental life is getting in the way of good writing.

The author gradually improved his writing by avoiding fancy language.

Somewhere along the way I set aside my hopes of writing that flawless essay.

Perhaps the point of writing the flawless essay was not to give up, but to never willingly finish.

My mother said she would help me with my writing, but first I had to help myself.

I was lucky enough to find a critic and teacher who was willing to make the journey of writing with me.

Franz Kafka once said: Writing is utter solitude ( ' , 獨處 ), the descent into the cold abyss ( ' , 深淵 ) of oneself.

For each assignment, I was to write the best essay I could.

Criticism, at its best, is deeply personal, and gets to the heart of why we write the way we do.

Constructive criticism gives an author a good start to improve his writing.

But what I learned, and what stuck with me through my time teaching writing at Harvard, was a deeper lesson about the nature of creative criticism.

As she neared the end of her prison sentence, a well-known columnist wrote that she was paying her dues, and that there is simply no reason for anyone to attempt to deny her right to start anew.

A writer should polish his writing repeatedly so as to get closer to perfection.

So I stopped shouting and bluffing, and slowly my writing improved.

My mother's criticism had shown me that Kafka is right about the cold abyss, and when you make the introspective ( ' , 內(nèi)省的 ) descent that writing requires you are not always pleased by what you find.

I am sure I wrote essays in the later years of high school without my mother's guidance, but I can't recall them.

He could not watch television except for two programs aweek, could not play with his friends after school until he finished his homework, and had to read two books a week and write book reports about them.

Bailly encouraged his young apprentice to learn to read and write.

But in his short lifetime, which ended exactly 184 years ago today, he would forever revolutionize French gourmet food (美食), write best-selling cook books and think up magical dishes for royals and other important people.

But it might be time to unlearn that training 一 this summer, a group of culture addicts, artists and community organizers are inviting New Yorkers to write all over the walls of an old house on Governor's Island.

For each assignment, I was to write the best essay I could.

He could not watch television except for two programs a week, could not play with his friends after school until he finished his homework, and had to read two books a week and write book reports about them.

I was excited when I learned this, figuring I had a full week to do the research, read the texts, and write it all up.

One of the most effective ways to concentrate is to write things down.

This summer, a group of culture addicts, artists and community organizers are inviting New Yorkers to write all over the walls of an old house on Governor's Island.

Writing in the journal, the scientists describe how the storks from Germany were clearly affected by the presence of waste sites, with four out of six birds that survived for at least five months overwintering on rubbish dumps in northern Morocco, instead of migrating to the Sahel.

While these numbers are still being validated by the state, we feel any adjustments they might suggest will be immaterial, Morgan wrote to the presidents.

Only about 50 students are invited based on their performance on written tests and at the USA Math Olympiad.

Recently, we examined more than 400 essays on the laws of life that teens from two communities had written as part of an educational program initiated by the John Templeton Foundation in Radnor, Pa.

In October 2000, the same month the survey was taken, the Washington-based Center for Media and Public Affairs wrote in its publication Media Monitor that, in a recent month of TV news coverage of American youth, just 2% of teens were shown at home, and just 1% were portrayed in a work setting.

Almost half of graduates--those who go on to earn less--will have a portion of their debt written off.

on average, only 12 to 14 hours a week studying and many were skating through their semesters without doing a significant amount of reading and writing.

Professor of Sociology at WashingtonUniversity, has written numerous articles and books on the issues facing older Americans in our graying society for the past 15 years.

Although large companies could easily set up their own advertising departments, write their own advertisements andbuy media space themselves, they tend to use the services of largeadvertising agencies.

"Presumably it's because it's simple and easy to write a prescription and consider a patient case closed rather than investigate further," Polman says.

A bystander named John Roulstone wrote a poem about the event, then, at some point, Hale herself seems to have helped write it.

And to get at the contents of a single iPhone, the government says it needs a court order and Apple's help to write new code; in earlier versions of the iPhone, ones that were created before Apple found religion on 熱衷于 privacy, the Fbi might have been abl

As Apple and several security experts have argued, an order compelling Apple to write software that gives the Fbi access to the iPhone in question would establish an unsettling precedent.

I'll write down exactly what I'm going to say and read it carefully.

Investors shouldn't write off brick and mortar.

They are the people who write the news stories as they come in.

Write down the names of all the American states you can remember.