Word: contentions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such moments, Levanter resembles Guy Grand, the cartoon millionaire-sadist in Terry Southern's The Magic Christian-a similarity that does no credit to Kosinski. But Levanter is not content merely to engineer or observe acts of humiliation. He is also an avenging angel. At an Alpine ski resort he blows up the vacationing henchman who tortures the subjects of a Middle East potentate. He devises an excruciating end for a New York hotel clerk who betrays visiting Eastern European guests to their native apparatchiks. This deed over, Levanter privately gloats because authorities cannot discover a plot linking killer...
...overcame her fear of flying, and Philip Roth professed desire, it is a great relief to find a novelist who isn't hiding, naked ego poorly concealed, behind her central character. The Ice Age is not about any one person, but rather a constellation of characters in an historical content, the downfall of their country. Each character, we feel, has his own identity, his own rationale for living, and a small but important fate to be played out against the background of a faltering England. Drabble has the novelistic strength to make the most of her role as omniscient author...
...terrorist activity has been declining, partly because of public aversion to the violence. In last year's gubernatorial election, radical independence parties polled less than 6% of the vote. Buoyed by a U.S.-aided rising standard of living, most Puerto Ricans-despite currently high unemployment-seem to be content with their ties to the mainland; at a conference of island editors and publishers in Dorado last week, Puerto Rico's Governor Carlos Romero Barceló felt confident enough about bedrock pro-U.S. sentiment among Puerto Ricans to call for statehood. Yet the island's core...
Departing from his generally reserved manner and leaning forward in his chair he explains "I would like to find ways in which we can get smaller groups of students and faculty working together on scholarly projects of genuine educational content in a continuing way." The proposition sounds vague but Tosteson declines, for now, to be more specific...
...scene shifts to New York. The Dodgers can only hope that yesterday's game brings the rejuvenation of Lopes, Russell and Ron Cey. Too many Dodgers have been content to simply take their cuts, not waiting to jump on pitches the way they did all season. Only Dusty Baker and Reggie Smith the lefty (as a righty he's no better than average) have attacked the ball...