Word: bitingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rising number of conventional student loans are being defaulted, Yale officials say, because the usual five-to ten-year repayment schedule takes too large a bite from the borrower's income when his earning power is lowest. Because PAYE is geared to long-term income, the plan should keep a number of students out of legal trouble. So far 122 colleges have requested details on how the Yale approach is proceeding. Ohio Governor John Gilligan has proposed that students at the state's public colleges repay the state for their education in similar fashion...
...took two of Beerbohm's stories, Enoch Soames and A.V. Laider, and awkwardly mixed Beerbohm in as a character among his own creations. In passages that are almost unrelated asides, they have Max as drama critic quoting himself on plays, players and playgoers. These comments lack the pithy bite of aphorisms, and as out-of-context fragments, they lose much of the slyly inflected wit that is one of the special pleasures of reading Beerbohm. The tone is wrong too. Clive Revill employs a voice and manner of waspish arrogance, whereas benign scorn or amused disdain would be truer...
However, George Jackson didn't bite the bait. He stayed at Tracy less than nine months before being transferred back to San Quentin in November of 1962 because he was "in need of control...
FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER Robert Bresson? Surely not the Robert Bresson. The director whose work (Diary of a Country Priest; Mouchette) has the bite and permanence of a woodcut? It seems inconceivable that Bresson could have confected this pastel romance. Everything in it has been said before in cheap yellowbacked French novels. A boy, Jacques (Guillaume des Forets), spies a girl, Marthe (Isabel Weingarten), on the bank of the Seine. Marthe is in tears; her lover has abandoned her. She consoles herself with Jacques. Hélas, the affair is only a dream; in the end it is shattered...
...journey to nowhere, Sophie caroms off a number of archetypes over-familiar to readers of the urban novel: eunuchoid males, knife-edged women's libertarians, garrulous old leftists, jittery blacks. To make Sophie's affliction even more puzzling, she is given an external symbol-a bite by a cat that may or may not be rabid. Is the plague external? Or does it lie within...