Word: belt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other end of town, Ralph Gawber, an aging accountant, is also waiting. But Gawber's personal drama is not of a new beginning, it is of surviving by "patience, belt-tightening and bookkeeping" through the fast-approaching end. The chaos of migrant families spilling onto his road and the snatches of other people's conversations that Gawber hears over his apparently interconnected telephone wires have deeply disturbed his sense of order and privacy. So like a conspirator, alone with his wife in their enormous house, Gawber "guards against alarm." He has seen the handwriting on the wall. He knows what...
...really tight election, any last-minute gaffe by one candidate, any below-the-belt blow by another could prove decisive. When Ford ads portraying three citizens from Georgia criticizing Carter were attacked as unfair and negative, his managers stopped running them. Ford tried to capitalize on Carter's ill-advised statement that American troops should never be used to check any possible invasion of Yugoslavia by the Soviet Union in a post-Tito period. Carter had made the statement before, but none of the newsmen covering him had made a big issue of it until keen-witted Columnist Joseph Kraft...
...raging energy and fantasy of Henderson the Rain King (1959) do not always thrill to the hothouse introspection of Herzog (1964). Those who can get along with the serious, well-mannered author of Dangling Man (1944) and The Victim (1947) are likely to gasp at the wisecracking Borscht Belt comic who hoofs onstage during parts of Humboldt's Gift. The picaresque hero of The Adventures of Augie March (1953) is a brash New World kid, while a wise Old World man fills the title role of Mr. Sammler's Planet...
Fallows' jump into the Carter camp is hardly his most dramatic political change-of-heart. He came to Harvard the product of a conservative, pro-Goldwater California town 70 miles east of Los Angeles, with the requisite chunk of Ayn Rand reading under his belt. "As (politically) juvenile as everybody else" in his class, he adds. He is not, he says now, embarrassed about his enthusiastic support of the Republican. Like many of his classmates Fallows soon was swept up by the anti-war movement. He recalls that he began to doubt the right-wing, pro-war legacy...
...belt that is prospering; it is the Bible Belt. Religion has a powerful effect in maintaining the humanity, civility and cohesiveness of a region. It teaches people that there are higher values than efficiency and moneymaking...