Word: anyways
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Criticism by talking about how T.S. Eliot used to say Milton was bearish and Spenser bullish one year, and vice-versa the next. He also warns against attaching certain cultural values to particular works and therefore making them important, or parts of the "myth" of a particular society. This, anyway, is his ideal for criticism as scholarly endeavor...
...been here the emblematic figures have been people who went a little too far in their quest to succeed within the prevailing value system. There was Steven Rosenfeld, the stellar pre-med whose drive carried him to the point of forging medical school applications that would have been glowing anyway. There are Spiro and Monette Pavlovich, who forged transcripts in order to stay on the prestige mill of Harvard graduate schools. These people are extremes, but they attracted, in this day and age, an inordinate amount of attention because they represented extensions, past the indistinct borders of logic, of impulses...
...will be of little practical consequence. Says one finance director: "A candidate won't get such large sums of money until he is clearly so far ahead that he is perceived as certain to win the nomination-and then the extra money won't help him much anyway...
...Jerusalem about where to head next in the Middle East. After three sessions, the two leaders agreed that their primary goal should be to persuade Arab leaders to join Israel at a reconvened Geneva peace conference. That agreement was easy: there now seem to be no alternatives to Geneva anyway...
...which can be almost lyrical in their evocation of death and disease. But the dialogue between characters, circumscribed by their lack of self-awareness, tends to be inane and repetitive. "How the fuck do I know I want to fuck them till I fuck them? Be reasonable, woman. And anyway, so fucking what...