Word: constant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Impelled, driven away from his desk and the study of a history he could no longer comprehend or even cared to, by a small spot that expanded, grew, shouldered against the facts he had stored in his brain; the constant pushing made sleep impossible, even when sleep was assisted by--or perhaps itself driven away--by several slugs from a bottle of cheap bourbon. A ring of light glowed in the east past the Charles, like the necklace of a dark lady, and that told him it was dawn or otherwise he might not have known because time, like history...
...small world of opinion magazines, creed is usually constant. Rarely are readers surprised by where the New Republic, for instance, National Review, Commentary or Atlantic comes down on a given issue. Harper's is something else. The 128-year-old monthly has changed editors three times since 1967, creating a slight zigzag effect. Now the magazine once known for its cheerful progressivism appears to have taken a tendentious turn to the right...
...arguments are difficult to summarize, but a constant theme of the book seems to be that those people who turn to the East...
...boycott has given us great leverage--the leverage of moral protest--and has prevented the University from silently closing and dressing the last wounds of 1969, the wounds that are a constant reminder of this University's narrow viewed and its recent resort to bold brutality...
...dramatically by studies of India's sacred monkey, the hanuman langur. In 1965, a naturalist wrote that the long-tailed black and gray langurs were "relaxed" and "nonaggressive." Now, a Harvard researcher has shown that the langur society operates more like the House of Borgia, complete with kidnaping, constant sexual harassment, group battles, abandonment of some wounded young by their mothers, and the regular practice of infanticide...