Word: badness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have been very hard on deans in the past andI withheld my judgement about Fred on how well hewould be able to take over a situation that wasquite bad. The relationship between the housemasters and the dean of the College [Fox] was nothealthy," says Lowell House Master William H.Bossert. "But I can't fault Fred on any majoraction, [although] we have disagreed...
...readers who had discovered the writer's incendiary comic skills as far back as his first novel, Lucky Jim (1954). On the other hand, the thought of Amis' being toasted across Britain was enough to provoke an unsettling question among Stateside fans: Could it be possible that the aging bad boy wrote a book that did not insult or offend anyone...
...mates gather each midday at the Bible and Crown, the local pub. From there, it is on to expeditions in search of other watering houses that have not been rendered horrible by modern redecoration. At one such ruined spot, Peter pays ironic tribute to the affluent society: "In the bad old days only very rich people could hope to enjoy surroundings like these. Now they're within the reach of all." While the men pub-crawl, the wives gossip, drink wine and discuss the problems of having idle men about the premises: "It's quite a problem for retired people...
...Port Canaveral, with a dead engine and a new way of looking at things. They had met a lot of people along the way, Janis says, "people who just wanted to travel. They didn't want to work anymore. We started to think, hey, that's not a bad idea. I mean, who wants to work anyway? After all, we were able to travel for nearly three years, until we got here...
...boys can be French too." When they are at sea, the boys take correspondence courses that are accredited in France. When anchored, Michel feels schools are important for social intercourse. "They must know there are little girls" (yes, thank heaven, he said, "leetel gulls") "and good guys and bad guys and all those things...