Word: clippings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Journey of the Wolf manages to outlast the errors and inexperience of its author. Although his touch is unsure, Day keeps El Lobo and the story moving at a good clip, through a Spanish landscape drawn with evident familiarity and style. Most important, memories of the war still lend a fascination that the best fiction cannot wholly capture and the worst cannot extinguish. This passionate and brutal struggle was the postage stamp on a letter to the world...
...Jones industrial average of 30 stocks up 122 points in January alone, the most successful month in Wall Street history (see box). By April, growth figures were in for the first quarter, and they seemed almost too good to believe. Discounted for inflation, G.N.P. rose at a 9.2% clip, one of the biggest quarterly spurts on record. Corporate profits soared; American Telephone & Telegraph eventually became the first U.S. corporation ever to earn more than $1 billion in a three-month period. Some economists began worrying about an inflationary overheating of business...
...contemporary stars ignored: Jack Nicholson's unforgettable confrontation with the waitress in Five Easy Pieces is longer than the burning-of-Atlanta clip from Gone With the Wind...
Barrett, a professor of journalism at Columbia University and the author of several nonfiction books, is adept at the mechanics of the novel. His dialogue sounds spoken, the scenes pass by smoothly and at just the right clip. Occasionally the prose is too lavish: "The sofas and chairs lie in cool pools of watery shadow like velvet leviathans anesthetized." But such empurplings fade as the book proceeds on its quiet but genuinely moving path. In the end, The End of the Party seems a well-tended, well-annotated photo album, an example of loving nostalgia tempered by wisdom...
...even when grace is given, as Bharati reads the situation, the Christian mystic must dissemble his experience through a series of tricky theological mirrors. He is a sacred maverick who goes straight to the boss over the heads of middle management, and clerical bureaucrats are usually looking to clip his wings...