Word: clearheadedness
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Though he has given her no encouragement whatsoever, his own secretary is pathetically in love with him. His stepfather Pete, a fat Babbitt, has a whining neurotic on his hands in Charles' awful mother. His sister is happily in love but cannot see that her health-nut boyfriend is...
Long Shot. It has taken all this time to find a true talker. Arlen might easily have fixed his face in a harsh attitude. It would have been facile for him to sentimentalize the Armenians, Saroyan style, or to hold them at arm's length, as his father did...
The most direct pressure on the Executive Branch is exerted by the highly active Israeli embassy in Washington and by visiting officials from Israel. Ambassador Simcha Dinitz is regularly seen in the West Wing White House office of Lieut. General Brent Scowcroft, Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security...
IN HIS NOVELS as well, from Poorhouse Fair to Of the Farm, Updike moved from anxiety over the destruction of American (and his own) innocence to a clearheaded view of his past, and a definition and coming-to-terms with his own limits. A farm may feed a dream and...
mastersinger's verbalmusic still works its magick in the broadest way immarginable, from the clearheaded images to the twoddle of a fuddled brain. In the beginning was the whirred, whorled prose of James Joyce; now a group of unknowns have transformed Finnegans Wake into a movie. Surprisingly, many of...