Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Intimidation. As usual, the Chinese seasoned their basically conciliatory statement with a bit of bluster. "China will never be intimidated by war threats, including nuclear war threats," Peking warned. "Should a handful of war maniacs dare to raid China's strategic sites in defiance of world condemnation, that will...
Even some major food processors are traditionalists. Robert Wise, head of Wise Potato Chips, a division of Borden, Inc. does not feel the least bit threatened by Chipos or Pringle's, nor does he plan to make a similar product. "We are not interested in competing with ourselves," he says...
...mannered young man. If anyone is to object to the marriage, the only reason must be irrational prejudice. This sort of treatment of an atypical situation does not reach the reality of the black man's experience today. But its attempt to persuade white people, if only a little bit, may be all Kramer can honestly...
...parts of the narrative (particularly at the beginning). Lebowitz edges towards the genre of the paranoid-Jewish-confessional novel, and he does not seem entirely comfortable with it. Willie's abject rantings and ravings about the dirt he exchanged with his ex-wives and lovers are laid on a bit too thick. It is only when Lebowitz brings Willie out of himself and into the world of a widow-friend of his late mother's and her tacky L.A. apartment or into the home of Professor Herman Klotz and his piece-of-ass wife that the novel hits its stride...
Another problem that bothered me a bit was the stylization of the dialogue: after a while, too many of the characters begin to sound exactly like Willie. The most glaring example is when Willie finds rapport with an ex-wife's nine-year-old daughter-and the basis of this rapport is as much the identical speech patterns Willie and the girl use as anything else...