Word: apts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...without assurance of enough room for extensive textual justification and a good deal of hedging; Levenson's short essay on the "self-vivisection" of these three writers in search of a sensibility uses brief quotations to launch his fast-paced, nine-part analysis. The spirit of the essay is apt, but the dialectic Levenson sets up between the styles of this new fiction and the conventional style of the old is tentative and needs a more complete working out of the basis for contrast...
...they may well win the Ivy League title. Yale's passing game may not be awesome, however, and the Yale crowd applauded when quarterback Chuck Sizemore threw his first pass against U Conn late in the second quarter. He ended up 5 for 11, a statistic that is not apt to strike fear in the hearts of opposing defensive backs...
...kids get handed cards, and the cards say, "Miss Ames, Room 201, is your teacher," and with that their fates are set. Teacher is either hard or she's easy; pretty, and nice; or she's too strict, in which case a kid consoles himself with finding her an apt nickname, like Old Hickorystickbitch or The Bosom Lady. In any case, kids have to take what they...
...England, but it is a cautious improvement over the days when Jews were untouchable and Joseph Kennedy Jr. became the first Catholic ever to make a club. It is unlikely that Harvard blacks will fall over each other trying to join a club, so the percentages are not apt to change...
Confidence operators and petty thieves traditionally prey on dormitory dwellers. The fall's bumper-crop of returning students is a god-send to rip-off artists. The situation is most dangerous in freshman dorms, where residents are apt to leave their doors open as they journey to communal bathrooms...