Word: chronics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eating more than he is?all the while surreptitiously scribbling away in a gold-covered notebook designed to look like a cigarette case. Despite his precautions, Fielding is occasionally recognized. Then, as he tells it, displaying his notorious aversion to the first-person-singular pronoun: "We suddenly develop chronic urinary trouble and take the long way around to the lav. We look at the plates of the other diners. We time the service of the people at a table in the corner. We watch the movement at the service tables. We listen to what the others are saying about...
...lived: an absurd misfit. Power can afford the risk, and not just because he is so brilliantly in control of his story. In his Irish bones, he knows something that many writing contemporaries do not understand: that failure is, in fact, the natural state of man. Converting chronic self-pity into the beginnings of self-awareness, Power proves himself, if not quite a tragedian, at least a master alchemist at producing final honor from final defeat...
...admits that the euphonious fragment was the product of what the poet called "a sleep of the external senses." But she insists that his dreams usually were "disappointingly dull," and suggests that much hard polishing must have gone into the poem after Coleridge woke up. Coleridge generally had chronic difficulty finishing his major poetic and critical works. The last lines of the fragment, moreover...
...start the program in 1970 is still unknown. One obvious, if possibly simplistic, solution would be to make a radical revision-or excision -of agricultural subsidies. The Government now pays farmers more than $1.8 billion a year not to grow crops. That sum would go far toward easing the chronic hunger pangs of millions of Americans...
Died. Franz von Papen, 89, German diplomat and politician who loomed large in Hitler's rise to power; of a virus infection; in Oberasbach, West Germany. Germans called him "the sly old fox of politics." He was actually a chronic blunderer who had the aristocratic connections and great good luck to survive his gaffes. As a World War I military attaché in the U.S., his fumbling attempts at espionage and sabotage led to his expulsion. As a postwar politician, his machinations finally gained him the chancellorship in 1932, whereupon he brought Hitler into the government-and swiftly found...