Word: borrowings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three students reported in October that they had been robbed at gunpoint of $100 by two men who had entered their room asking to borrow matches. Eight days later, their room was broken into and a stereo valued at $1700 was stolen...
...somewhat less carefully developed example of this reactionary rarely-think conformism. He runs with no warning to Paris with his young girlfriend. In the affair with ex-wife Marianne at the end, she's embarrassed by the memories their old bed evokes. He snickeringly calls a friend to borrow his cottage for "a rather delicate matter--she's very pretty, let me tell you." Yet he thinks he's changed, grown away from his excess aspirations, learned when to lie and when to be candid with his lovers...
...overbearing. And as Leon Edel says in his book Literary Biography, "There enters into the process a quality of sympathy with the subject which is neither forbearance nor adulation." Edel describes a certain form of the biographical genre that, in its rejection of chronological order, can "borrow from the methods of the novelist without, however, being fiction." Here again Greene aims for that but fails. He avoids a two-dimensional portrait, yet in his attempts to give this third dimension to Rochester's life he misses. His book is like a holograph that has jumbled up the diffraction pattern from...
...these deficits--a special fund of liquid capital it set up in the early 60s, before the financial woes set in. But the fund has dwindled to about $6 million, which at present deficit rates will last another year or two. After that, the Faculty will have to borrow money from the central administration and pay it back with interest, which will only make matters worse...
...This is actually an interest-free loan," Ebert said of Rogers's bill. "If this becomes law, the only equitable way for it to function is to require everyone to serve; not just those who borrow money because they are poor...