Word: darkeness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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NEWS BOARD: Competing for the News Board is the fastest, most efficient way to get an aerial view of the bright and dark sides of this wonderland which we call Harvard. It really helps put things into perspective. The News Board Comp also happens to develop skill and facility at writing the English language better than any Expository Writing section. The Board is looking for people who can combine the greatest simplicity with a quality which, for want of a better name, we call style. News editors write on topics ranging from national elections to Faculty intrigues to freshmen riots...
PHOTOGRAPHY BOARD: If you're intrigued by non-verbal communication, in this word-flooded environment, here's your chance. You don't have to know the first thing about photography. We'll teach you and provide you with first-rate equipment. And our excellent dark-room and printing facilities will be at your disposal...
...high interest rates and tumbling stock markets prices are the most obvious signs that something is awry. They cast a dark shadow on Reagan's rosy vision of the country's economic future, the one which investors would pour their dollars into a revitalized private sector and expand employment. Those investors are now shying from Reagan's bargain with them, betraying a lack of confidence in his maneuvers to fight inflations and restore a balanced budget. They have discovered what Reagan's opponents claimed long ago, that the arithmetic of supply-side economics just doesn...
...would trek down to Richardson Creek to whoop and splash around. Was the sun always shining? Was the air always spiced by yellow pine and morning glories? There were even two movie theaters, the Strand and the Pastime. Helms and his pals, for a dime apiece, marveled in the dark at a serial parade of he-men and helpless heroines in peril...
From his debut in the 1930s, with The Dark Frontier, Ambler set the course for the likes of John le Carre" and Robert Ludlum, who have yet to show that they can match the maestro for consistency and endurance. In The Care of Time, as in Ambler's 17 other novels, it is finally not so much the plot that grips the attention, superbly handled though it is, but the characters, all of them human and vulnerable: the flawed journalist, the fearful broker, his not quite ice-cool daughter, the sick sheik, even the attendant thugs, brass hats, cops...