Word: abruptly
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Subtitled "The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World," Percy's new novel is a rather abrupt departure from the past. The scene is the South. The time is the 1980s, when current polarizations have reached logical conclusions. If the reader's heart sinks upon being confronted with another futuristic novel, it must be said that Percy takes his projections with agreeable lightness. In Love in the Ruins, the population is split into small enclaves of like-minded dissidents: blacks v. whites, knotheads (conservatives) v. liberals. Even the Catholic Church...
...morose, and Angel, who talks a political line. Casually and inevitably they all take heroin. Returning to the ghetto, they realize anew they have gone nowhere; the heroin, like the streets, is its own dead end. The film closes on that despairing note and on Wayne's abrupt realization that he is fully hooked. Real life has been only slightly kinder for the three junkies. Angel has shaken the habit, and now tours with the film, lending whatever help and information he can in post-screening discussions; the other two are in jail. But as Right On! and Skezag...
...honky-tonk dance number written in the style of Cole Porter. The lyric (the cleverest in the show if not the best) is all there, but that is all that is there. As soon as Miss Smith is finished with her tongue twisting the orchestra pulls up to an abrupt halt, leaving the listener panting for more...
...that their income would drop as much as 40% or 50% if they had to compete with French and German producers. Borten himself would prefer to see Norway aligned with Sweden, Denmark and Finland in the abortive but still discussed Nordek economic grouping. In any case, Borten's abrupt departure may only be a foretaste of political battles to come among Common Market outsiders who must decide whether the benefits of membership are worth the initiation...
...sense, this sectarianism has been a result of PL's unshakable faith in the correctness of its own line; abrupt changes-usually initiated by the national committees-may come and go, but otherwise, there is only one accepted approach. It is possible, however, that increasing disfavor has forced the party to reaffirm confidence in its own viewpoint. For this reason, there has been less and less internal discussion in SDS and greater emphasis on leafleting and demonstrating-all on the basis of PL's political beliefs. Pro-PL members of SDS often accuse their opponents in SDS of using discussion...