Word: baddings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...roll-call vote on this proposal, and to the dismay of congressional leaders the measure carried by a solid 245 to 153. "There's an election coming up," explained Wisconsin Democrat Les Aspin. "People are trying to cut spending and there's been a lot of bad publicity about that building...
What did the Senate have to say about that? Nothing official, but Majority Leader Robert Byrd was described by a Senate aide as "on fire." Said Byrd himself: "When we get into the business of tit for tat, it could go from bad to worse." The House leadership tried to sound reassuring. One Congressman said scornfully that "the bed welters among us are notoriously bothered right now." An aide to Speaker Tip O'Neill predicted that the matter would soon be added to some new piece of legislation and that the vote would be reversed. If that happens, construction...
Says Cuyahoga County Democratic Chairman Timothy Hagen: "This city is on the verge of a nervous breakdown." The bad situation, which Kucinich inherited, is deteriorating. Some symptoms...
...separate, elitist education for the upper middle class. It is this sober-faced genre that Yates follows, at a distance. The tone of his novel is that of a man looking back wearily from middle age and thinking, "Ah well, it can't have been so very bad. We all survived, didn...
...reader senses an insufficiency, however. Staring unflinchingly at bad nerves and loneliness is admirable, but fearing to look at any other sort of human condition is not, and the cautiousness of Yates' writing comes very close to fear. - John Skow