Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...book is closest to autobiography although Chavez had no say over what to include. Form should, of course, be wedded to function; the ambiguity in the form of Levy's book reveals a certain confusion on the author's part over just what his book is really about. The constant switching of focus, from one interviewee to another, is annoying and detracts from a clean development of the narrative...
RESTIC: No kidding. Well, I've got to go now, John. This phone is in constant demand. I'll see you on Saturday, though. And remember, a host should be gracious, always gracious...
...There is properly no history," wrote Emerson, "only biography." To reconstruct the New Mexican frontier of the 1860s, Horgan concentrates on Lamy. In the novel, the bishop experienced a constant inner joy: "He always awoke a young man ... One could breathe that [air] only on the bright edges of the world, on the great grass plains or the sagebrush desert." Horgan testifies to Lamy's love of Western saddle life, but concedes a sadder truth: "If he had any capacity to express exalted feeling, he left no record...
Harvard is faced with three more games this season, and the hope of another Ivy title. There is one constant: The Crimson must beat Brown next week in order to have a chance, since Brown faces two punies, Cornell and Columbia, and its other games...
...data, including the first photographic image of the hidden Venusian landscape-a jumble of large jagged rocks rather than the sandy desert expected by some experts. Said Project Scientist Boris Nepoklonov: "We thought there couldn't be rocks on Venus [because] they would all be annihilated by constant wind and temperature erosion, but here they are, with edges absolutely not blunted. This picture makes us reconsider all our concepts of Venus...