Word: coye
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...books can not be gauged from sales figures. There only one reliable indicator of favorites: the library card. Books, after all, are merely purchased by adults; they are read by the young. This year, as in all years, the market is glutted with the inane and the precious, the coy and the overproduced-volumes designed to catch the shopper's eye, not the child's heart. Still, this year, as in all years, a few volumes have the aura of permanence: books that will not only be bought but-far more important-also borrowed...
...obvious she worked hard at it. She came from Texas, had gone to boarding school in Vickburg, Mississippi, and now she was a freshman at Hampshire College. She hated it. It seems her roommates made fun of her make-up, her politics, her attitudes towards sex, and the flirtatious, coy way she acted around men. "All my friends went to Ole Miss (University of Mississippi)," she said. "I don't know why I wanted to come up here. I guess it was pressure from my parents. I'm different. I'm not like everybody else up here...
...females, coy behavior makes sense if it elicits some sign of good genes or commitment to nurturing. Sociobiologists believe estrus disappeared in humans as a female strategy to cement monogamy: a year-round sexual attractiveness helped keep mates from wandering off. Menopause may have evolved to turn aging females away from breeding and toward protecting their genetic investment by caring for grandchildren...
...didn't star in any of their art films, did you?" the pathologically jealous French instructor says, interrogating his coy step-daughter. That's the school of "art" to which Heart Throbs belongs: the sort you might judge to be of considerable artistic merit--unless someone you knew were mixed up in them...
...idles in ennui over his coy stories and precious plays, what can Stefan do to rouse himself from his cursed dilettantism? Like a true Karamazov, he contemplates an ideally perverse murder involving the princess's pubescent daughter. He is saved by, among other things, World War II, which−rest assured−he sits out in the U.S., selling books in a shop in Chicago while his wife and twins are killed by the Nazis. Twenty years later Stefan returns to Europe to commit a romantic crime, have a religious revelation...