Word: abandoned
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Anthony Keating's new-found faith leads him to paper riches, then promptly to rags, followed by a heart attack the recovery from which dictates that he abandon drink, smoke, and sex. Exiled to High Rook House in Yorkshire, an estate which he bought in better times to use as a retreat, Keating muses over the meaning of his forced, inactivity...
...Clarke cites experiments on animals in vacuum chambers in an effort to disprove the old sci-fi truism that an astronaut would explode instantly in the vacuum of space. The book scintillates with such occasional tidbits, but otherwise the pickings are slim. Clarke reveals that he has decided to abandon non-fiction to concentrate on writing novels, and the overall mediocrity of the book inclines one to approve...
...most formidable early foe of ratification appears to be Alabama's wily Democrat James Allen, a master of parliamentary tactics. He vows to smother the treaties with amendments that would, in effect, force the Administration either to abandon the accord or reopen negotiations with Panama. If this tactic fails, he will try to dilute the treaties with Senate-passed reservations, which would not be legally binding but would commit the U.S. in a moral way, with unpredictable practical effect...
...first there reigns a state of newborn innocence, snuffed out suddenly by the burning of a neighbor's child in a plane crash. "God is a brute and traitor, abandoning us to time," writes Dillard. She despairs of earthly happiness: "You can get caught holding one end of a love, when your father drops, and your mother; when a land is lost, or a time, and your friend blotted out, gone . . ." But in the end, she witnesses a baptism that heralds her own reawakening of faith. One Christian sect, she reads, posits a substance known as "Holy the Firm...
...work within the wide limits that Mingus and his early contemporaries established. Even early in his career, Carter was indebted to Mingus for giving the bass a major role in jazz improvisation. And yet, he did not follow Mingus into the avant-grade line of jazz; he did not abandon the classic role of the bass as a rhythm instrument...