Word: cold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...least, as December rolls in and the first snow lies mushy on the ground, and you've already slipped on a patch of ice and landed on your ass, cursing because there's no escaping the fact that Cambridge Winter is here and because, baby, it's cold outside--I say, at the very least--you can comfort yourself with a wide selection of excellent December folk music around Cambridge...
...been made out to be. In a paper prepared for Local 35, Richard D. Wolff, associate professor of economics at the University of Massachuetts, states that last year's Yale deficit resulted largely from temporary expenses, such as increased fuel costs during last year's unusually cold winter. In addition, Wolff writes that the Yale Corporation created much of Yale's current financial problem itself last January, when it decided to freeze the amount of the school's endowment the administration can devote to general expenses...
...some suspects; we have narrowed it down." One theory was that someone with access to the vaults had walked off with the cash and turned it over to a confederate, who had flown it out of the country. The prospect of an arrest without recovery of the money was cold comfort to officers of the bank. Its theft insurance policy covers losses only above $1 million...
With a jazz trio providing his backup, he begins stitching together the blue-collar bromides, raunchy puns and gritty street lingo that characterize his verse. "It's cold out there/ colder than a ticket taker's smile/ at the Ivar Theater, on a Saturday night," he chants in a voice that sounds like a bad exhaust. The Ivar Theater is a two-bit Hollywood burlesque house where he has spent more than a few evenings...
...Builder an altogether less-urgent narrative than The Case Worker. The bureaucrat hero has evidently led an interesting, if calamitous life, but he strews the details so negligently through his thoughts that only the most vigilant reader can piece them together. Konrád tries to atone for such cold impersonality by giving his builder a warm, strenuously rhetorical prose style (gracefully rendered by Translator Ivan Sanders). The effect is often striking. Konrád's metaphors can go off like depth charges: "Marble-faced generals in their epaulets and decorations receive the homage of subservient anniversaries. Men reduced...