Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people who specialize in assessing the actions of Fidel Castro are quite aptly called Castrologists, for on the basis of their past record their chief tool seems to be stargazing. Last week they looked up from their horoscopes again to proclaim that Fidel's future looked dim. The reason: for the past seven weeks he had not been acting as they thought he should be acting...
Back in the dim pages of Dominican history-four Presidents and two years ago-Leftist Juan Bosch and Moderate Joaquin Balaguer were both former Presidents who had been sacked by the military. Both were in exile and both had been forbidden to return by the Dominican government. With so much in common, the two struck up a long-distance friendship and began discussing their country's problems by telephone-Bosch from San Juan and Balaguer from New York. Last week, five days after Balaguer defeated Bosch in the country's presidential elections, the two met for the first...
...connects), in the solicitous way he treats the hordes of youngsters who hound him for his autograph ("I remember how I felt about ballplayers when I was a kid"). Juan's father died when he was three ("Too much rum," explains Widow Marichal), and his mother took a dim view of the lad's fanaticism. She railed against his playing ball because it interfered with school and farm chores, tried to stop him from attending grownups' games for fear he would be hit by a foul ball. Luckily, Juan's older brother Gonzalo and his sister...
...make it easy for them. Ground-level planting beds are sure to be trampled; they were raised so that their rims serve as benches. Smooth surfaces invite childish scribbles; here they are rough to discourage them. Women are afraid of mugging; gay, indestructible plastic-globe lamps replaced the previous dim lighting. Finally, the existing plane trees were saved and new ones added so that even without grass the plaza is green...
Scrabble & Swap. The hero is James Walker, 32, English novelist, Angry Young Man. Actually he is dim and aging, and resentfully married to a dowdy, motherly, working nurse. Life, as seen from a dull suburb of industrial Nottingham, makes him not angry so much as itching with vague discomfort, as does his hairy tweed suit, which "makes him look as if he had been rolled over by a sheep." He has chronic spiritual snuffles. His novels are about "sensitive provincial types who live far away from where things happen...