Word: driftful
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...Saul Bellow, Walker Percy, Bernard Malamud, and the poets John Berryman and Robert Lowell as influential, but he says no single writer or school is dominant. "All the students I see have read quite a bit," he says, "but there are curiously few intersections among their reading." Besides a drift away from confessional stories, and "a great deal more comic writing," he can cite no widespread fads, interests or obsessions...
...will probably not do much more experimenting as a songwriter, nor will the Kinks drift far from their present course. Why should they? They are now more popular than ever. Ten years ago they would have had difficulty filling Jonathan Swift's; now they routinely pack Boston Garden. To say that they have sold out as artists would be ludicrous. "Artistic Integrity" is a term more often used by critics with steady incomes than by artists themselves, and if the Kinks haven't proven their artistic integrity, then nobody during the last two decades has earned the designation...
...first anniversary of Doe's coup for joint exercises with the Liberian armed forces. American diplomats insist that they aim to promote a degree of stability that will allow the Liberians to enjoy the "fruits of the revolution." They are also clearly pleased with the pro-American drift of the Doe regime...
America's sense of social drift, Yankelovich argues, is not created just by the human-potential faddists and their self-destructive tendency to confuse "needs" and "desires." Rather, the problem is broader based, encompassing the middle group, which developed its semiliberated values in a time of economic plenty. According to Yankelovich, Americans came to believe they could have it all- wealth without work, sexual freedom without marital problems, self-absorption without loss of community. Then came the rise of OPEC, a decline in U.S. productivity and a huge expansion of federally funded social programs. "Had we not been lost...
...vessel rescues a reddish ape from the Indian Ocean but throws it back when the sad, manlike creature disrupts ship's business. The captain insists that the ape had no meaning and his fate no moral significance. The reader should have no trouble getting the author's drift: when the freight must be moved, the strange and rare are always expendable...