Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nothing strange about that," retorted Reeve. "He did look a bit odd Willy," concluded Bodgin. The conversation focused on this debate for several minutes while the interviewer wondered about the importance of Buddhists and their heads in Harvard life...
...neglected to take his equilibrium along. "Success often catches a writer at his most morbid time," Le Carré theorizes, "when he has finished a book. He has been to the end of his talent. It is a frightening view. I went a bit crazy." Flung into the celebrity circuit, he was "eaten alive, asked questions which I felt invasive and impossible to answer." He produced another book, The Looking Glass War, but it brought little satisfaction; reviewers said the adventure could not compare with its smashing predecessor. Le Carré traveled to Dublin to assist in the script...
...stately minuets of Smiley, the waltzes of his subordinates, the frugs and polkas of his rivals and enemies are all perfectly timed and performed in Le Carré's works; the choreographer does indeed know his nation and its people. Nevertheless, the thoroughly English writer relies a bit too heavily on foreign literary sources. Turgenev is a longtime enthusiasm, and Balzac is a novelist toward whom he is idolatrous. The Frenchman, insists Le Carré, is unparalleled for "sheer narrative thrust: everything has a material connection. There's no style, just fact, fact, fact." He has a special affection for an imagined...
...general, board members expect real G.N.P. to increase at an annual rate of about 4% to 4.5% from now through December-bringing the average for all 1977 to a bit under 5%-and to continue at about that pace through the middle of next year. Among the more optimistic is Otto Eckstein, a Harvard professor and president of Data Resources, Inc., a producer of computerized forecasts (TIME, Sept. 26). He predicts a 4.8% advance in G.N.P. for all of 1977, and an average increase of 5% in the first half of 1978. Eckstein foresees that the economy, after slowing somewhat...
...rest of the game consisted of some tightly contested midfield play, but Harvard's big guns, perhaps a bit cocky after Thursday's 8-0 thrashing of Tufts, were unable to get untracked. Harvard's usually explosive front line, led by last year's high scorer Sarah Mleczko, managed 13 shots, only four of which had to be turned away by the UConn goalie...