Word: directionality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Less than a minute later, co-captain Julie Brynteson sent a direct kick sailing over the head of the Williams goalie for a 2-0 Harvard lead...
Schlesinger, of course, was an insider, one of those who had direct access to President Kennedy. He was one of those invited out to Hickory Hill, Bobby's mansion, "the most spirited social center in Washington." And as this colleaguecum-historian writes, "It was hard to resist the raffish, unpredictable, sometimes uncontrollable Kennedy parties." So this is biography written by the Washington equivalent of a drinking buddy of the subject. And the book's credibility is cut still further when, in a passage set in the early '60s, the author suddenly enters the picture, standing at poolside at Hickory Hill...
MARY GORDON'S first novel Final Payments attempts to show the effect of the denial of pleasure. However, she neglects to clearly explain her notion of either pleasure or self-discipline. Only her direct and meticulous prose makes her heroine's actions plausible...
...homosexual teachers in California ?yet the money question is not only the dominant national issue but also the principal local one. And although the national temper is by no means so angry as is sometimes reported, it seems to be skeptical, self-centered and mistrustful of attempts to direct...