Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...begun several books earlier: a movement away from the narrow, intense psychological portraits of her early fiction (A Summer Bird-Cage, The Garrick Year) toward panoramas of realistic characters placed in a recognizable society. Drabble's progress was retrograde, running against the modern notion that fiction should be deep and singular rather than broad and general. Her models -- Dickens, George Eliot, Trollope, Arnold Bennett (whose biography she wrote in the 1970s) -- were either considered unfashionable or inimitable...
...power, not simply because it allows us to acquire and possess things but because it is we who determine its worth; we who say a ruby costs more than an apple; we who decide that a tennis court is more valuable than a book. ! Paradoxically, money creates a deep sense of powerlessness as well, since technically we are not able to provide money for ourselves; someone or something else must do that for us -- our employers or, until recently, our stocks. All that, money can do; and when such essential, familiar functions are snatched from one's life, small wonder...
...naturally to the White House, however, that Americans turned. At a time when the global economy was vibrating violently, a sense of panic from + down deep in the infantile reaches of the psyche rose to the surface. People wanted a sign from Daddy that someone was in charge and working to set things right. They expected words from the Great Communicator. They expected a presidential Rising to the Occasion. They waited beseechingly...
...Canadian financial institutions had pleaded with British Chancellor of the Exchequer Nigel Lawson to postpone the event. But Lawson chose to forge ahead, adding a concession: for the next month at least, shareholders who want to cut their losses will be able to sell their shares at a deep discount to the Bank of England...
...Tokyo's stock market has long been among the most overheated in the world, featuring share prices as high as 64 times the value of earnings, Japanese investors were more wary than worried. "When a mountain is high," said Masao Maehara, a Nikko Securities official, "its ravines must be deep. We're seeing fluctuations, but the Japanese economy remains strong." Even so, future Prime Minister Takeshita faces the unhappy prospect of slower economic growth than the 3.4% previously anticipated for next year...