Word: descent
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also manages shrewdly to show how fitting it was that the dream of the last decade should have ended in Dallas. John Lee Wallace, his spirit restless, his head forever fogged in, makes an appropriate guide for this descent into hell. But Author Shrake, who has kept his distance from John Lee throughout most of the book, ends by indulging in a little unnecessary hero worship. After Nov. 22, the story shifts to Acapulco, where John Lee and his girl get mixed up in a gunrunning, dope-smuggling scheme that is crazily uncoordinated with the Texas part of the book...
...visit the obscure artistic achievements of some long-forgotten authoresses, nor mouldering collections of poetry by some oppressed New England saint; she preferred to scrutinize fictional heroines familiar to us all. Given the title of her lecture. "Seduced and Betrayed Women in Fiction," I had at least expected a descent into revealing murky depths along this pleasant stroll. But Hardwick's approach remained brisk and cheerful. Her "different way of seeing things now" did not represent a rallying-cry to the oppressed, to the long-suffering victims of sexual exploitation and abandonment, but an elementary lesson in power politics: meet...
...Banfam) Briefing for a Descent into Hell...
Most doctors agree that guidelines are necessary, but some find the Hastings rules too tight. They argue that once a high-risk group is spotted-such as Jews of Eastern European descent who are vulnerable to Tay-Sachs disease-all its members of child-bearing age should be tested...
Nonetheless, The Descent of Woman has already achieved a distinction of sorts: it has replaced another largely fictional work-Clifford Irving's discredited biography of Howard Hughes -as the Book-of-the-Month Club's June selection...