Word: braced
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think the law is already too much with us, brace yourself. In a new book called Oh Promise Me But Put It in Writing (McGraw-Hill; $10.50), Seattle Attorney Paul P. Ashley, 81, argues that most voluntary human relationships could benefit from written contracts?naturally drawn up by a good lawyer...
...last week's erratic weather outside the Midwest is any indication, the region should now brace itself for floods. Along the Eastern seaboard, January thaws (the New York City temperature rose to 57°) and heavy rains sent creeks and rivers over their banks, inundated some towns, caused power failures in Washington, D.C., and left hundreds of cars swamped everywhere...
...Harcourt Brace Jovanovich released a fantasy, The Dark Tower, that Lewis never finished. Macmillan of New York has recycled selections from other works into The Joyful Christian, a new volume out this week. In yet another new book, A Severe Mercy (Harper & Row), a memoir by Sheldon Vanauken, professor of history and English at Virginia's Lynchburg College, Lewis appears as a ministering angel in tweed jacket. Like so many other unbelievers, Vanauken and his wife Jean dipped into Lewis upon urgings of Christian friends, began devouring all the Lewis books they could find, and wound up, to their...
...extracts from the world. The rooms in which his figures pose are all ideal architecture: their orthogonal emptiness is the stage for a subtle play of forms in which the way a towel's folds are echoed by the edge of a bowl and the curved iron brace of a washstand acquires an importance verging on the moral. Balthus' world is whole, and everything in it, one is persuaded, is riveted there by prolonged thought...
...CITY BUILDER by George Konrád Translated by Ivan Sanders Harcourt Brace Jovanovich; 184 pages...