Word: bit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year on every American taxpayer. To keep consumer spending from going into a freefall, the Government may be forced to chop its own receipts instead. But doing so would widen the federal deficit and pump yet more inflation into the economy even as output is declining. Quite a bit of U.S. economic policy is being made as much in Riyadh and Tehran as in Washington...
...same style as, and not much of an advance on, that of Young Americans. "Boys Keep Swinging" sets the throbbing electronic pulse of "Heroes" to lyrics that sound like Bowie's answer to the Village People. He's always skirted the epicene, of course, and this is just a bit of harmless camp, but it seems out of place next to the wanderlust and cosmopolitan vigor of the rest of the album...
...errors, not winning shots. Gologor covers a lot of psychological ground: the aggression behind politesse, the times when anger and guilt are useful, the devastating aftereffects of missed opportunities. His courtside manner is casual and unintimidating, his prose free of psycho-jargon. There is, however, a bit too much commercial top spin in the book's title. Sensible Tennis may not be so flashy as Psychodynamic Tennis, but it would be more appropriate...
...Harvard seasoning has been softened a bit by seven years in Korea. After being forced to withdraw, he was drafted, and while in Korea wrote feature stories for armed services newspapers...
Ishikawa resents the Summer School's reputation as Camp Harvard. "Although I understand the appellation, I think it's kind of unfair," he says. "Pre-college students are pretty well screened beforehand and the whole character of the Yard naturally becomes a bit more relaxed with the good weather...