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A British academic, Lee contends Woolf wasn't nearly as mad as previous biographers have alleged.
He contends that, in common conversation, "intern" can signify something akin to sexual receptacle, ergo no respectable young thing would accept the job title.
(Perhaps more to the point, it radiates .) And in the most recent issue of the Weekly Standard , David Brooks contends that the book's criticism of the left is merely the latest in a succession of moves designed to advance the author's academic career.
Modern Japanese, he contends, derives from an archaic form of Korean that took root in Japan but was stamped out in Korea during the first several centuries.
As her unauthorized biography, Just Desserts , contends, Martha is an icy, horrible person who abused her (now ex-) husband, ignores her daughter, belittles her mother, sues her gardener for pennies, plagiarizes recipes from better cooks, and humiliates her staff.