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John Ciardi
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...one of the earliest disasters in my career as a teacher. (para.1)What was the “disaster”?
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I was fresh out of graduate school. (para.1) Had he worked for many years as a teacher?
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Part of the student body was a beanpole with hair on top who... (para.1) What does “part of the student body” mean? What did the student look like?
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New as I was to the faculty... (para.2) Paraphrase.
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drugstoremechanics and pillgrinding...(para.2) What is the professor talking about here? Are these pleasant words people use to refer to pharmacy?
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...it would further certify that he had been exposed to some of the ideas mankind has generated within its history. (para.2) Paraphrase.
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I could have told him all this, but it was fairly obvious he wasntgoing to be around long enough for it to matter. (para.3) What do the two “it”s refer to here?
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They will be a little shorter when you are in love, and a little longer when you are out of love, but the average will tend to hold. (para.4) Why will the days be a little shorter when we are in love?
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You will see to it that the cyanide stays out of the aspirin, that the bull doesnt jump the fence, or that your client doesnt go to electric chair as a result of your incompetence. (para.5) For what professions will these beconsidered results of total incompetence?
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...and may it always suffice. (para.5) Paraphrase.
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Will you be presiding over a family that maintains some contact withthe great democratic intellect? (para.6) How would you translate “democratic intellect”? Can you recast the sentence and make it as simple as possible?
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I'm out to make money. (para.7) Explain.
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...because youre going to be badly stuck for something to do.(para.8) Explain “badly stuck for”.
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You are on your way to being that new species of mechanized savage, the pushbutton Neanderthal. (para.9) Explain “mechanized savage” and “pushbutton Neanderthal”.
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There is not time enough in a single lifetime to invent for oneself everything one needs to know in order to be a civilized human. (para.10) Analyzethe grammatical structure of this sentence and then break it up into several short and simple ones.
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If you are too much in a hurry, or too arrogantly proud of your own limitations, to accept as a gift to your humanity some pieces of the minds of Aristotle, or Chaucer, or Einstein, you are neither a developed human nor a usefulcitizen of a democracy. (para.12) Analyze the grammatical structure of this sentence.
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...most people would never fall in love if they hadnt read about it. (para.13) How do you understand this idea?
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