Word: badly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...times with a moat of disdain, crenelated views and a castle keep of private devotions. He was raised in the middle-class London suburb of Golders Green, son of a modest publisher. At Oxford in the '20s he associated with the aesthetes, young men he later termed "mad, bad and dangerous to know." He graduated far from the top of his class, then taught school. Evelyn's experiences left him well stocked for his first novel, Decline and Fall (1928): "I expect you'll be becoming a schoolmaster, sir. That's what most of the gentlemen...
...essential Waugh hero is a British Don Quixote dejectedly tilting at the 20th century. His troubles begin with a code of honor that is ill suited for campaigns in society or on the battlefield. Humor is shaped by innumerable collisions with bad manners, bad writing, bad architecture and bad service...
Author Bernard Malamud, 64, is a messenger who brings the bad news. His vision is firm and tragic, and a strain of Old Testament severity runs through his novels and short stories: all of his characters either know instinctively or must be taught that life is real, earnest and achingly impermanent. As a consequence, Malamud's career has earned him awards and formidable respect but produced little dancing in the streets. He is an author easy to admire and hard to love...
...living and working. Similarly, Malamud's fiction is a hedge against depression; it conveys pleasure through its artistry, through its deft translation of ideas into events and living, breathing characters. Life may be, as so many Malamud characters discover, a matter of taking the good with the bad. Dubin's Lives is an example of the good...
Most P.G. policemen resent the attention the trial is casting on their department. They feel they are being unfairly scrutinized and see themselves as victims of bad press and an uncooperative black community, the target of instigators looking for a cause...