Word: careers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always added to his James Bond panache, but last year he began to hear the winged chariot of middle age. He became depressed and nervous. His dark, curly hair started falling out, and he lost weight. He wanted to see a psychiatrist, but feared it would hurt his career. He was obsessed with producing a dramatic dope bust that involved trapping cocaine traffickers from South America and France in one place. To make his case, he relied heavily on a longtime DEA informant, a French Canadian who calls himself Claude Picault...
There is a real sense of fatalism here, born of mature confidence; Updike, unafraid in his writing, seems like the narrator who claims that, "Ellello*u's body and career carriedme here, there, and I never knew why, but submitted." Updike obviously knows where he is going, and the reader would be wise to submit; this journey is worth the price...
...Against what team did Gordie Howe score his 1000th career goal...
...Which Harvard alumnus scored his first two career NHL goals in the third period of a game to lead his team to victory? Name the player, his team, and the opponents that night...
...floor, next to the roach clips and Earth Shoes. The American counterculture claimed the Swabian mystic as a guru of its own discovery, its subterranean priest. That was perhaps an instructive case of self-absorbed audience imitating self-obsessed author. In fact, Hesse during his astonishingly long career had been appropriated by three other generations (in Germany, anyway) as their own secret voice. Hesse possessed a strange, lifelong affinity for adolescents, for their intense spiritual questing and abused sense of exclusion. The affinity was natural. The novelist remained something of an adolescent himself for all of his 85 years...