Word: beare
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...overwriting. Yet he is not a showoff, as critics like Alfred Kazin have sometimes claimed ("a brilliant actionlessness ... the world is all metaphor"). In the service of his intense, precise idea of truth, Updike simply loads some moments in his fiction with more words and significance than they can bear. From a story in the 1960s, describing the fragrance that
...freed his writing from brilliance. He is a brilliant writer. But his prose has the brilliance of crystal; you can see through it. In reading the early Updike, you were aware of the writer. But now you find that all his perception and intelligence are being brought to bear on doing what the writing should do. You're no longer distracted by his writing...
Cardinal starter and winner Joaquin Andujar pitched six sand one-their innings of three-hit shutout baseball until a Ted Simmons line drive hit him in the knee and removed him from the game. Jim Kaat, Doug Bear and finally Bruce Sutter finished the game...
...friend stared at me for a few seconds and then turned and left, headed for a restaurant just over the border that specialized in chili and warm, dry air. I should have gone, too, because nobody on the Harvard side could have loved football enough to bear through the rest of the game...
Undergraduate opinion of these regulations seems to bear out the department's worst fears. "They suck," says one senior in the department. Other upperclassmen single out the requirements as reasons they chose to major in other concentrations, such as Literature or History and Literature...