Word: anagram
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most concrete from of British control over Northern Ireland is its troop commitment, now at 14,000 (compared to a high of 21,000). Direct rule--Ulster had its own parliament until 1972--is exercised through Secretary, of State Merlyn Rees (his name has an anagram: Mr. Serenely). And Westminster enacts specific pieces of legislation affecting Ulster, including the Northern Ireland (Emergency Provisions) Act 1973--which includes the provisions for detention--and the Prevention of Terrorism Act 1974, which allows the British to deny people from Northern Ireland entry into Britain proper...
...necessarily bad. We've come to expect a reasonable share of obscurity and allusiveness from the Modern Novel, and if Nabokov prefers to allude only to his own work, okay. The first sign that all is not well between Nabokov and the reader is the compulsive desire to anagram every unfamiliar name (or else run to a Russian dictionary) so as not to miss some crucial symbolic connection. Next comes the realization that there isn't really all that much there to miss...
Poisoned Flies. On the upper reaches of the Hassayampa, a dark region of the mind, lurks Ratanous, called Ratnose. He is ageless and probably deathless, a one-eyed bandit leader, hunter, torturer, demon and figment. (An anagram of Ratanous, possibly relevant, is "our Satan.") The father has confused memories of skirmishes with Ratnose in the days when he fished the Hassayampa as a young man. His mind is seized and shaken by the mad notion of stalking Ratnose once more, beating him down, killing...
...were undertaken by the FBI without the knowledge or approval of either the President or the Attorney General. The FBI'S "bag jobs" were mostly attempts to obtain material to break the codes of foreign governments (inevitably, the agency imbued its own efforts with a code name: the Anagram Program) or to tap the telephones of organized-crime figures. Some of the burglaries directed against Mafia types were authorized by various Attorneys General, but J. Edgar Hoover apparently never revealed the full scope of FBI burglarizing to his many bosses. Hoover eventually decided in 1967 that surreptitious entries should...
...Exxon U.S. doesn't mean anything? The Standard Oil execs might have turned from their computers long enough to ask that of any crossword-puzzle, anagram or Scrabble buff, or one of the millions of word-minded people who might visualize, as I did, a map of our country besmirched by a big X. "Ex on U.S." is the sort of comment likely to find worldwide agreement, if not one your would wish even on a competitor...