Word: ascent
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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FICTION: A Gentle Occupation, Dirk Bogarde ∙Falling in Place, Ann Beattie ∙Finding a Girl in America, Andre Dubus ∙Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party, Graham Greene ∙Joshua Then and Now, Mordecai Richler ∙Morgan's Passing, Anne Tyler ∙Preparations for the Ascent, Gilbert Rogin
...Preparations for the Ascent, Gilbert Rogin...
FICTION: Falling in Place, Ann Beattie Doctor Fischer of Geneva or the Bomb Party, Graham Greene ∙ Life Before Man, Margaret Atwood Morgan's Passing, Anne Tyler Neighbors, Thomas Berger Preparations for the Ascent, Gilbert Rogin ∙ The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five, Doris Lessing
...have climbed to the top of the greasy pole," he said when he became Prime Minister, and this series is a capsule history of that slippery ascent. He was able to enter politics only because his father had fought with his synagogue and had had his children baptized as Christians. Disraeli's enemies never forgot his origin, however, and when he was finally elected to Parliament, he was hooted down when he tried to speak. "The time will come when you will hear me," he responded. It was a prediction he made come true through force of will...
...Nothing will ever equal that moment of joyous excitement," wrote Jacques Charles after making man's first ascent by hydrogen balloon in 1783. "It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss...