Word: cumbrous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...family. He is a novelist's device, like Fitzgerald's Nick Carraway in The Great Gatsby, the reporter Jim Malloy, O'Hara's man-on-the-sidelines in Butter field 8 and Sermons and Soda-Water. In the tighter structure of a play, he is cumbrous and distracting...
Short-Waved. The art of "bugging"* has made spectacular strides since the days when a microphone was a cumbrous object that trailed telltale wires and could be installed only by drilling through a wall from the next room. Slimmed to insect size by transistors and printed circuits, today's microphones can be tucked into a sofa or buried inches deep in walls or floor. With battery-powered transmitters no bigger than a cigarette pack, the new gadgets need no outside power source and can eavesdrop for two whole years without attention. In one East European capital, a foreign service...