Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...widespread feeling that the Carter Administration was floundering in economic policy. By last Feb. 28, the Dow had sunk 26%, to 742, at which point stock prices had discounted all the bad news that could reasonably be expected, plus all that could unreasonably be feared, plus a bit more for good measure...
...they suggest with a wink (or more often a brutal slam in the ribs), are just like the famous people we are always reading about in the press. Whereupon they offer some Psych. 101 explanation for their characters' behavior and go off thinking that with this primitive bit of mimesis they have completed the artist's job. Of course, they have scarcely begun...
...bit later, Mr. B set Gelsey the stringent task of dancing Theme and Variations. He made his earlier version even more intricate and Gelsey rose to the challenge. But the strain on her overtaxed system was considerable. She developed tendinitis and began thinking the unthinkable: "I love dancing more than anything in the world, but I cannot dance with this pain...
Early in the story, before Narrator Koerner has found his voice, there are a few sentences a bit too mannered and elliptical. "Some of them a sensible man would have paused with, perhaps found whatever it was he thought he was looking for," writes Schickel of Koerner's women friends. That second clause needs to be drained, refloated and fitted out with new prepositions. But the early lapses are not repeated, and the novel in sum is intelligent, sentimental writing for the middle-aged and cynical, who need it more than most...
...expect a doubleheader to produce a little bit of everything and Saturday's Harvard-Princeton contests at windy Soldiers Field yielded just that. About the only thing missing was some hitting by the Tigers, as the Crimson nine swept the twinbill by scores...