Word: alarm
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After breakfast Wednesday Heather took a nap and set her alarm for two hours of rest. At 8:30 a jackhammer started up outside her window. Heather slept through it. At 9:15 her alarm went off, but she didn't hear it. At 11 the jackhammer started up again, and she jumped out of bed. She never throught she'd be grateful to have a jackhammer wake her. She typed all day, except for the hour she couldn't get on the computer because her sophomore-year roommate had accidently incapacitated two of the machines and was nowhere...
...provide the framework for his book. The author's analysis of Channing and the slavery issue is the most provocative. He focuses on Channing's well-known 1842 document. The Duty of the Free States, and encourages us to read it "as one among those mid-century expressions of alarm, even despair, at the unsatisfying choice that America now offered between a cheapened communitarian ideal and the grandiose self." Channing, a man who had believed in the law through most of his life, began to lose faith, suspicious of a legal system that sheltered the madness and cruelty of slavery...
...internecine warfare has not caused undue alarm abroad. While the West Germans are somewhat concerned that their good friend Haig may be undercut, the French feel that the Reagan Administration at least has a coherent policy, in contrast to Carter's. Says a high-ranking French diplomat: "Bush is Haig's political rival, not his ideological one. Right now it is a question of power, not substance. We don't give a damn which people do what as long as there seems to be some agreement on essential questions." But the fact that the foreign policy...
ASIA Flexing their new muscles provokes alarm and resolve...
Stassinopoulos is also good at interviewing sources and collecting anecdotes. When glaucoma was diagnosed and eyedrops required every two hours, Maria bought a tiny Louis XV timepiece that tinkled an alarm every two hours. Yet she loved nothing better than combing Woolworth's for such "bargains" as a lemon squeezer or potato peeler. A friend remembered a lunch at Claridges during which Maria proudly produced her latest finds. The Callas jealousy was legendary. The sight of her beloved Visconti, who was homosexual, merely talking with Leonard Bernstein sent her into a rage. Yet she did not always take herself...