Word: cagier
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is plenty of that, and some melodrama, in Rabbit Redux, and the novel is every bit as complex as Updike's previous one. The politics are accurate, and interesting; Rabbit is a wavering hawk, his cagier father a sort-of populist, his used-carlot-owning in-laws, fashionably lib-rad. The changing landscape is vigorously perceived: the social differentiations between tract housing developments and more wooded lots, plastic hamburger stands moving ever-closer towards the heart of the old city. Dominant metaphors resonate with historical substance. As Rabbit journeys, the theater marquee goes from 2001 to TRUE GRIT...
While the Freshman Class of Harvard and Radcliffe attempts to settle down in the red-brick dormitories of the Yard and the Quad, it faces a barrage of tests, appointments and interviews, a bevy of cagier HSA salesmen, the first torments of homesickness and Union food, and, of course, Freshman Week...
...often died for-the Loyalist cause, that Auden wrote his most political poetry. A left sympathizer, but never committing himself to Communism, he celebrated the relentless pace of Marx's History. Disillusioned and frightened by the approaching Nazi apocalypse, infatuated with a romantic conception of the working class, cagier to write for a Cause, Auden and his friends wrote poetry of violent revolution. Twenty years later, editing a collection of his works Auden amitted "Spain 1937," one of his most famous poems...