Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In the author's company, everyone turns into a Crews character. The actor
Administration supporters within the committee mobilized against the draft. Senator John Glenn, chairman of the East Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee, declared that such a document would be "offensive to the People's Republic." After a visit to the White House, Church said he did not endorse the draft...
But why? The traditional explanations were threefold: that lacking a profit motive, there is no incentive to run Government bureaucracies efficiently; that such organizations are, by size and character, unwieldy and unmanageable; and that the job security offered by the civil service system makes it impossible to fire incompetent employees...
It seems clear that Flannery would have made her mark as a writer no matter where and how she lived her grownup years. She was born a Southerner and a Roman Catholic, and the vision that animated all her fiction came early: the infusion of divine grace into the lives...
Even those who knew her well may be surprised at the range and shadings of her character revealed in this collection.